- Mar 5, 2016
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Hi Tomshardware-
It's been a long time since I've been on here. I decided to resurrect a water cooling project from years ago and try my hand at OC'ing my i7 950:
Specs:
CPU: i7 950
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-Ud3r Rev 2 latest bios FH
Ram: 3x2gb Supertalent 8-8-8-24 DDR2000
PSU: Corsair 750tx
Storage: 250gb Samsung 850 SSD
Vid card: Diamond Radeon 5850
PSU: Corsair TX750w
Cooling : Heatkiller 3.0, mcp655, custom loop
This comp isn't used 24/7, i'd say about 10% of the time as I have stored it during two moves and only turn on to do some casual gaming. The cooling before the water was the stock (lapped) cooler that did a TERRIBLE job; i couldn't even go to 100% load without it throttling as it would easily hit 100C (I think removal and reinstallation of the stock cooler for lapping reduced the pressure). It was run at stock speeds/auto voltages for the majority of its life.
After what appeared to be a successful first day (passed prime 95 at both 4.0 and 4.1 and load temps were in the 50's C), I shut down the computer and went to bed. The vcore was 1.296 in cpuz/hwmonitor, I think i had VTT around 1.3 and QPI around 1.8, but I can't fully recall.
I went to boot up this morning to do some tinkering and it won't even get to the post screen. The video card fan spins up and the phase (red) and NB phase lights (green) are lit up. It continues to 'restart', the only evidence I have is that the GPU fan speed changes.
I've tried to reset CMOS but after doing some google searching it appears that X58 boards including this one seem to have this problem and there is not a known fix (that i've found YET).
Hopefully I am wrong, though! I was hoping to make this comp last a bit longer.
Any input/advise is appreciated!
Kyle
It's been a long time since I've been on here. I decided to resurrect a water cooling project from years ago and try my hand at OC'ing my i7 950:
Specs:
CPU: i7 950
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-Ud3r Rev 2 latest bios FH
Ram: 3x2gb Supertalent 8-8-8-24 DDR2000
PSU: Corsair 750tx
Storage: 250gb Samsung 850 SSD
Vid card: Diamond Radeon 5850
PSU: Corsair TX750w
Cooling : Heatkiller 3.0, mcp655, custom loop
This comp isn't used 24/7, i'd say about 10% of the time as I have stored it during two moves and only turn on to do some casual gaming. The cooling before the water was the stock (lapped) cooler that did a TERRIBLE job; i couldn't even go to 100% load without it throttling as it would easily hit 100C (I think removal and reinstallation of the stock cooler for lapping reduced the pressure). It was run at stock speeds/auto voltages for the majority of its life.
After what appeared to be a successful first day (passed prime 95 at both 4.0 and 4.1 and load temps were in the 50's C), I shut down the computer and went to bed. The vcore was 1.296 in cpuz/hwmonitor, I think i had VTT around 1.3 and QPI around 1.8, but I can't fully recall.
I went to boot up this morning to do some tinkering and it won't even get to the post screen. The video card fan spins up and the phase (red) and NB phase lights (green) are lit up. It continues to 'restart', the only evidence I have is that the GPU fan speed changes.
I've tried to reset CMOS but after doing some google searching it appears that X58 boards including this one seem to have this problem and there is not a known fix (that i've found YET).
Hopefully I am wrong, though! I was hoping to make this comp last a bit longer.
Any input/advise is appreciated!
Kyle
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