I have been running a Xigmatex 92mm fan/heatsink on my Q9300 running at 3.5ghz. According to RealTemp, idle was in the high 50s, load about 71 C. I've been doing a lot of folding, so I wanted to keep my CPU cool while doing SMP work units, so I bought a Thermaltake Frio.
Difficult install, because my case has no cutout behind the mobo. I used AS 5 and both fans in a push/pull config. Anyway, it's all back in there now, and temps have dropped about 8 degrees C across the board (idle around 49 C, load around 63 C). I'm using RealTemp in Windows 7.
I was expecting something more, I guess. Is that the kind of drop you'd expect between those two coolers? I'm asking because I'm afraid I did something wrong on the install and will have to pull it out to find the problem.
Difficult install, because my case has no cutout behind the mobo. I used AS 5 and both fans in a push/pull config. Anyway, it's all back in there now, and temps have dropped about 8 degrees C across the board (idle around 49 C, load around 63 C). I'm using RealTemp in Windows 7.
I was expecting something more, I guess. Is that the kind of drop you'd expect between those two coolers? I'm asking because I'm afraid I did something wrong on the install and will have to pull it out to find the problem.