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haxs101   09-28-2009 at 04:05:43 AM

I'm buying a Phenom x4 965 soon, and I'm looking for a good cooling system (fan or water) to cool this CPU. I want to over clock it to atleast 4.0 ghz. I just need suggestions on whats the best fan/water cooling system for this. Thanks!

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TechnologyCoordinator   09-28-2009 at 04:33:59 AM

140 Watts! Overclocked at stock! LOL, just like the Prescotts.

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werxen   09-28-2009 at 04:54:24 AM

phenom 2s are the same way... not power efficient once overclocked.

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croc   09-28-2009 at 05:30:47 AM

haxs101 wrote :

I'm buying a Phenom x4 965 soon, and I'm looking for a good cooling system (fan or water) to cool this CPU. I want to over clock it to atleast 4.0 ghz. I just need suggestions on whats the best fan/water cooling system for this. Thanks!



Maybe a TEC rated at > 500W?

If you get it TO 4 GHZ stable, please let us know. Most overclocking websites are getting BSOD's around 3.8 to 3.9ish GHZ. And even then, the lowly i7 720 tends to have better benches than the 'mighty' x4 965. It is a good cost per performance chip, but a lousy performance at all costs chip.

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loneninja   09-28-2009 at 07:50:39 AM

965 doesn't clock any higher than a 955 and the Phenom II's rarely reach 4.0Ghz stable in a 64bit OS

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brett1042002   09-28-2009 at 06:54:20 PM

3.8ghz is about all you will get out of these CPUs. I have hit 4.0ghz, but it is not stable. I can boot into windows... but if I try to run anything like games, benchmarks... it BSODs. I tried playing around with diff voltages and multipliers with no success. Temps were not an issue either. I run at 43c under full load... 32c idle @ 3.6ghz, stock voltages. Not to discourage you though. Please give it a try, and if you succeed let us know how you did it. Good luck.

 

EDIT: I may try another go at 4.0ghz tonight. I never tried messing with the NB multiplier on my previous attempt. I'll update with my results tonight.


Message edited by brett1042002 on 09-28-2009 at 06:59:34 PM
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TechnologyCoordinator   09-28-2009 at 06:55:57 PM

kinda sad when you only get a 10% OC from an unlocked multiplier.

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nss000   11-13-2009 at 01:55:09 AM

haxs101 wrote :

I'm buying a Phenom x4 965 soon, and I'm looking for a good cooling system (fan or water) to cool this CPU. I want to over clock it to atleast 4.0 ghz. I just need suggestions on whats the best fan/water cooling system for this. Thanks!




Better push_hard to justify the costs. Non-OCed; using stock HS/fan I run Phoronix-Test-Suite at 42-C and get good numbers ( unigine-tropics=37.3 ).

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louis1978uk   11-23-2009 at 06:40:35 PM

Hi all i recently purchased the 2nd revision of the phenom 2 965 (125w) c3 stepping moddel ok extremely impressed
yes its power hungry yes it has the most abismal cpu cooler included however if you have some ear defenders at hand it clocks and goes like a train relentlessly performing without the slightest of glitches,ok im not an amd fanboy,well maybe a little however i run an i7 920 clocked to the max and found my 965@4128mhz creamed it ok on certain completely pointless benchmark programs it didnt but real world gaming it absolutely trounced the intel... now yes intel have far faster more energy efficient cpus out there...BUT and its a huge but,what can intel give you for £118.00 black edition with 4000mhz clock and 4cores? nothing that comes close



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peanutpc   11-23-2009 at 06:49:30 PM

Save your money and get the X4 945... with good ram, it will OC just as much as 955 & 965. With the money you saved, get a Corsair H50.

Or you could skip the PII X4 and get I5 750.

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