- Aug 18, 2002
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I recently went from an E5200 system to an unlocked X3 455. I was never able to overclock my E5200 but it ran relatively cool, never really exceeded 60c.
I was able to OC the X3 455 from 3.3 to 3.6 using a tool that came with the driver cd, but it rebooted only a few seconds later. Back to stock 3.3, there's no crash. Prime95'd it for a whole day and no problems at stock, BUT, HWMonitor reports a max temp of 91c (!!!!).
right now it's at 51 to 52c, I have firefox with 6 tabs (flash video playing in one), and a few other programs running that shouldn't be doing much (steam and messenger). I'm ok with 50, but jumping to 90 under load does not sound ok to me.
I've been wanting a crazy noctua for a while but the Hyper 212 at $25-30 seems like a really good deal. What do you recommend to be able to keep this thing cool even with a little OC?
Thanks.
I was able to OC the X3 455 from 3.3 to 3.6 using a tool that came with the driver cd, but it rebooted only a few seconds later. Back to stock 3.3, there's no crash. Prime95'd it for a whole day and no problems at stock, BUT, HWMonitor reports a max temp of 91c (!!!!).
right now it's at 51 to 52c, I have firefox with 6 tabs (flash video playing in one), and a few other programs running that shouldn't be doing much (steam and messenger). I'm ok with 50, but jumping to 90 under load does not sound ok to me.
I've been wanting a crazy noctua for a while but the Hyper 212 at $25-30 seems like a really good deal. What do you recommend to be able to keep this thing cool even with a little OC?
Thanks.