[Solved] 1156 CPU Heatsink and Fan

Greetings! I know there are limited choices right now for the 1156 socket, but I was wondering if anyone has had experience with any aftermarket HSFs out there. I'm looking to OC my 860 and I wanted to see my options. A quick google search brought me to other forums and what I gathered was that most major HSFs will have brackets for them.

If anyone has had experience with this or any quality HSF, please let me know! Thanks in advanced!

Here is a link to a very good web site with a lot of useful information about cpu heatsinks:

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

You can use the embedded search feature to find information about 1156 socket heatsinks:

http://www.frostytech.com/heatsink [...] earch#1435

Thank you for all the info. I nabbed a 212 from amazon this morning. I'll be sure to let you all know how it goes.

era86 - how is the CM Hyper 212+ working for you? What sort of temps are you getting at idle and load? Did you happen to compare with stock? My i7 860 is idling at around 40C and I'm looking to improve on that. Prime95 pushes it to almost 80C.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8155/coretemps.png

Found it! I'll be sure to get a pic while it's on load soon. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Agreed.

The reason I asked if that low number was normal is because I was not seeing such behavior with my 860. I certainly haven't seen a multiplier of 9. And I was thinking about it after I saw your pic and I couldn't really recall seeing mine with a higer multiplier either - meaning I don't remember seeing Turbo kick in. I was testing BIOS settings tonight for another problem I've been having with the monitor freezing on, e.g., full screen Hulu and I thought to look at the reported speeds. I did see Turbo working, with my modified BIOS. So I tested specifically for the multiplier when I set the BIOS back to the way I had them originally and retested (Prime95 - 1 thread) and the multiplier no longer moved. It sat at 22x, maybe dipped to 21x once, but never got higher. These readings came from CPU-Z and Core Temp.

The only difference I had between the BIOS was that when Turbo was not working on had XMP turned on. Have you tested your turbo mode successfully? How do you have your RAM configured in the BIOS - Auto, XMP, or manually set?

I'm using a GA-P55M-UD2 with BIOS F4g (Beta, just flashed tonight, fairly certain I had the same behavior on F3).

Thanks.

Your temperatures stay under 50C at full load!? I have got to get one of those Hyper 212+ 's.

If you wouldn't mind, could you run one more experiment for me? Run Prime95 again. After it starts up go into Test and choose Stop but select just thread 8 to stop. Then, one at a time stop thread 7, then 6, then 5, 4, 3 and 2. At this point you should have just the #1 thread running. Please take another screenshot of this, I'd like to see the Core Speed and Multiplier with 1 thread under load. Based on what I discovered last night with XMP turned on mine does not move past ~2.93GHz and a 22x multiplier. It should be hitting 3.46 GHz with a 26x multiplier, or close to it.

Edit: Also, did you make any changes in the BIOS as to how your RAM runs? Is it running default, XMP, or did you set specific timings by hand? I realize we're getting off topic here. Based on your response and what I find when I get a chance to run another test I'll start another thread.

It for about 6-7 minutes... I can run it for 10 and post another snapshot .

ekoostik, let me run it again before you make a decision! Haha, also remember I added another 120mm fan to the heatsink. It only comes with one of them. I'm also not OCing.

I'll try and post another pic of Prime95 running for roughly 20 mins. I think I will get higher temps.

http://yfrog.com/2ocoretempp

On Prime95 for a bit over 10 mins.... never got past 51C. I'd say that's fine with me

vinster27 - Here is a link to a very good web site with a lot of useful information about cpu heatsinks:

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

You can use the embedded search feature to find information about heatsinks for specific cpu sockets.