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[boabs]

Worth going from amd 965 to intel 2500k? cheers

 

[night_wolf]

its a big difference between the 2 in performance, But if you are not getting what you need from the 965 then i would say go with the 2500k.

are you a over clocker?

 

[boabs]

yeh ive been trying to clcok amd 965 for a while heat rockets no matter wot i do. using antect 920 still no gd with amd temps.

 

[night_wolf]

did you install your cpu cooler correctly?
Did you use thermal paste?

how many case fans do you have? Push and pull

 

[boabs]

plenty fans mate i got a nzxt phantom case.

 

[night_wolf]

is there allot of dust in your case?

 

[boabs]

na man nice and clean . sitting at 30deg now on idle thats running at 3.4default setting. soon as i move it to 3.6 the heat rockets at 65deg on full load.

 

[rds1220]

The first thing that should have been asked is what heatsink/fan are you using stock or aftermarket? If your trying to use the stock heatsink/fan that's why it's overheating. Its to small to dissipate the heat created from overclocking.

 

[boabs]

ive had thermax eclipse 2 fan which whent up against the noctua and thats couldnt keep the temp down thats how i got the liquid antec 920.

 

[boabs]

was disapointed when the antec didna keep the temps down at idle the tjermax cpu was at 35deg with the antec on idle i get 30deg.

 

[night_wolf]

over 70deg is too high and the max temp according to the producers, the max temp the cpu can handle is 62deg.

I would say go with the 2500k and get the corsair h100 and get better performing case fans, maby one or 2 more, depending on your budget

And make sure you use a very good thermal paste.

 

[boabs]

i just paid 80bucks for an antec 920 3 days ago.

 

[boabs]

ya ever seen the nzxt phantom case?

 

[night_wolf]

are you using the stock settings for the 920?

 

[boabs]

yeh i havent chaged anything with the antec 920 setting .i thought 30deg was gd temp at idle for amd chip.

 

[rds1220]

Clean off the old thermal paste and reapply. You only need a small dot about the size of a pea. Anything more than that can cause over heating. Try that and see what happens.

 

[night_wolf]

i saw the case, and its a nice case, im sure it will run at 4.5ghz at decent temp

 

[boabs]

cool cheersfor help give it a blast. just feal a bit stupid getting rid of a 4 core and buying another 4 core.

 

[night_wolf]

like rds1220 said about the thermal paste reapply it, And increase the speed of the fans of your 920 for overclocking it will cool more for 4.5ghz

 

[boabs]

i tried bf3 last night on ultra im getting about 45/55fps gigabte 6850oc version.1900/1200.

 

[night_wolf]

not at all

 

[boabs]

but blur motion and some else next it was turned off everything else at ultra.

 

[boabs]

its an 820core
memroy bandwidth 134
version from gigabyte. so im wondering if i go for that intell how much diffrent will it feal.m

 

[night_wolf]

not bad at all you got a great deal on that system!

 

[night_wolf]

the only way it will feel different is with a 120hz screen

But with a 2500k at that speed it will get more fps but ive found that you can play comfortably above 40fps