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Thermaltake Volcano 9 Heatsink Review


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i have a slot athlon 900@[email protected] with a top performer vos32 and i get idle temps of 44 and load temps of 50 which i think is remarkable.

remarkable indeed!

What kind of fan is on that heatsink? The stock one?

As for your voltage, was a voltage of 1.85 really needed to make the system stable? I would would have thought 1.80 would have been fine.

That would keep your CPU a bit cooler under load and under idle.

 

I hate to bust your bubble, but the on-board temp probes aren't 100% accurate, and actually the comp-u-nurse probes aren't 100% accurate either.

 

The only real accurate way to get the CPU temp would be if the CPU had a probe builtin. It really is just too bad they dont have such a thing on Athlon's :/

 

I did forget to include in the review, that the room temp is usually kept around 20.9

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aint nuffin wrong with my p3..

 

Id burn you and ur dully AMD comp any day of the year sir :)

well mebbe not.. next summer I will upgrade to an AMD what ever the fastest SOB they got out there is :)

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there are two globalwin 60mm fans on my heatsink. i believe they are each around 20cfm. the thermal paste on it is some old crappy stuff. i cannot put new paste on it because i cannot get the heat plate off it is on there too good and i don't seem to have the right tools to remove it without hurting myself. so i just have regular cheap compound between the heat plate and vos32 which helped me about 2-3c. and i have 1.85v set right on the processor as well as 10x multiplier. my ram sucks and my stupid friend broke my goldfinger so it was my only option. if i run it at 1.80 it will boot but it is unstable under load and has crashed before in 3dmark. if i remember correctly, 1.85 is the default voltage for a 1ghz.

 

as for the onboard sensor. i would think they are only inaccurate if they are broke. they bring higher reads than a shove in probe which means there is a higher temp in there somewhere than what the shove in probe in reading and it's better to get the highest temp read you can and a shove in probe can't always do that.

 

http://www.m6.hwgn.net/reviews/volcano9/index2.shtml

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You ever thought about selling your slot setup, and getting a socket a setup? I bet you would really love it :)

 

Back to the probes. They aren't inaccurate, but the temp that is reads isn't really what the CPU core is. That is what I meant by inaccurate. The temp probes are working find, and are reporting the temp that they are reading, without any problems.

 

I usually say in my head the real temp of the core is about 3

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You ever thought about selling your slot setup, and getting a socket a setup? I bet you would really love it :)

was that directed to me?

 

if so.. its not a slot..

 

and 4ghz this summer.. pssh.. dats mine aswell :)

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haha, im sorry.. I dident know..

I was looking around at his stuff and i dident see him sying he has a slot..

 

so.. I know the P3s ave some slot CPU's

 

ah oh well time for werk

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