edjahman

I know that the bolt through water blocks are the best but sometimes you have to work with what you have. I waited probably a year after everyone else to cut my lid off. It got me to 3 ghz. anyway. It was very easy. I have pics here. Bottom of page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edjahman/page12/ A disposable razor is the way to go.

I bought it special from the old dfi street buy/sell forum. I forget the stepping and I dont know where the lid is. Its a good one for sure. Maybe ccbbe

Im running orthos and my load temps are ~52 at 3006 ghz and 1.57vcore. How is that? Yes. It is a dual core. Look it up. I cant believe the difference. Wow. --EJM

Well, three dimes did the trick. When I first mounted it I thought it was tight enough but apparently not. Works great now. ~50c 2.8ghz 1.5vcore. Good enough until I can buy some real good watercooling. Thanks guys. I just wasn't thinking, obviously. --EJM

Maybe some shimming might be in my future. Thanks. --EJM

The waterblock for this particular device is mounted to the standard s939 mount. It seems to be making good contact with the naked 165. Im stumped.

I'm using a corsair nautilus water cooling cheapo rig to cool it. It's a waterblock clipped onto a standard socket 939 plastic mount. I'm certain it's getting good contact. I dont believe it is possible for it to be stable at 100C and 60C. --EJM

My opty is reporting core temps of 64/100 while running orthos and it is stable. How is this possible? I use coretemp and it reads from the diode on the chip itself so I dont understand, It freaks me out to see it that high. Thanks Guys! EJM

Its has five pins. So I assume you mean plug it into the 5 pin part on the bottom of the header. Im not sure exactly how to place it. Its wire colors are as follows. red white green black black.

I found the header but it's 9 pins. Whats up with that?

I have a dfi lp nf4 sli-dr and i need to plug in an internal usb cable. It's a 5 pin cable marked as follows..vbus d- d+ gnd shd. I did a quick inspection of the board while it was in the case. I wasn't able to locate it. Does anyone know the location of the usb header?? Thanks --ejm

Core temp reads core 1 = 53 C core 2 = 57 C Smartguardian reads 44 C-46 C These are load temps while ortho'ing! So WTF? Should the mid 40's to 50 C be my temp goal for core temp only now? I remember when smartguardian was "the norm" even though it was prone to error. I want opinions please. Thank You. --EJM

Get a better psu. It is the base for a good system.

Ok. I did a re-mount with ceramique and cleaned out the rad. and now my load temps are as follows..... smartguardian-----48 to 50C 100% both cores at 2.8 ghz with 1.5 vcore. core temp.---core 0 55C and core 1 52C same as above. I probably shouldnt expect much better results with the corsair unit. It's just that I want to get 3 ghz. with this 165. I cant help but wonder if I got better cooling then would it be possible?? I was just feeling really lazy when I bought the corsair unit. Does anyone know if OCZ id still going to release a phase unit?? Thanks Guys. --EJM

I used as5 and its been on a long time. I was careful and i dont believe i used too much. i assume coretemp is accurate.