Boldeagle Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 (edited) Hey guys, 4-5 years ago I bought a pre-built with a P4 Prescott and was an utter n00b on PC components, after having overheating alarms going off and having to return it the shop on 3 separate occasions with poor support service I ended up researching, analysing and finally understanding the problem greater than the salesman/tech staff. They would test the rig in A/C environment of about 23C, not "loading the system" and never achieve the overheating alarms I heard. I found the Prescott is notorious for "running at high temps", learnt how to remove the heatsink, finding a bloody thermal pad there (useless crap) and refreshed with ArticSilver5. Since then I now have a significantly greater understanding of PC's in general and have surpassed most of my friends, damn now I fix their PC's. I have a [email protected] with CNPS9500 and 4Gb of Crucial and I am an ever absorbing sponge. Came from DFI and this Club suits my means. Edited June 14, 2008 by Boldeagle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveandrew Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 K cool carry on... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Lovely story lol, welcome to OCC Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CanadaGUY Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Welcome  P.S I love how hardnrg's sig keeps adding (( around "Buy my stuff" )) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ice Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 Hey guys, 4-5 years ago I bought a pre-built with a P4 Prescott and was an utter n00b on PC components, after having overheating alarms going off and having to return it the shop on 3 separate occasions with poor support service I ended up researching, analysing and finally understanding the problem greater than the salesman/tech staff. They would test the rig in A/C environment of about 23C, not "loading the system" and never achieve the overheating alarms I heard. I found the Prescott is notorious for "running at high temps", learnt how to remove the heatsink, finding a bloody thermal pad there (useless crap) and refreshed with ArticSilver5. Since then I now have a significantly greater understanding of PC's in general and have surpassed most of my friends, damn now I fix their PC's. I have a [email protected] with CNPS9500 and 4Gb of Crucial and I am an ever absorbing sponge. Came from DFI and this Club suits my means. Â Prescott's Overheating OMG what a Shocker , Long ago i was active on the forums and used to chuckle at all the Prescott temps being reported by the Overclockers, why did I chuckle ?, I had a Northwood, infact i still do lol, and it used to run all day long overclocked with hardly any rise in temp, the Prescotts were hot running chips everyone had problems keeping them at sensible temps. Â God bless Intel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldeagle Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 (edited) The Prescott is in the missus's PC now and damn it was hitting 60C at idle the other day, time for it's monthly strip down, refresh with thermal paste and clean up, lol. Have to do it at least twice a year though thankfully she only surf's, chats and DL, games give here vertigo (or something similar to car sickness). Edited June 25, 2008 by Boldeagle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compxpert Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 Hmm oced my old 3.0 prescott to 3.6 and never hit above 60C full load. Anyway welcome to occ. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 Welcome to OCC! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ice Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Hmm oced my old 3.0 prescott to 3.6 and never hit above 60C full load. Anyway welcome to occ. Â If I remember right, my Northwood used to run at about 45C with a 3.00 @ 3.4, was a long time ago though so I could be wrong, still ive got pritty much the same system so I can check temps, I keep it at standard clock now, back then I had some very fast Corsair Ram, thats since been removed and replaced with 2Gig of "cheap as chips" ram Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldeagle Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Well thankfully that Prescott came with a locked BIOS but I had a 805D after that and ran that at 3.4GHz and have got my Q6600 running at 3.15GHz at 4-4-4-12 and just hit 62C on Prime95 after several hours. Damn I reckon my 805D could do 3.6-38Ghz on air, having it sitting in cupboard at the moment will have to push it one day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compxpert Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 If I remember right, my Northwood used to run at about 45C with a 3.00 @ 3.4, was a long time ago though so I could be wrong, still ive got pritty much the same system so I can check temps, I keep it at standard clock now, back then I had some very fast Corsair Ram, thats since been removed and replaced with 2Gig of "cheap as chips" ram 50C was my idle temp. I must have gotten a pretty decent Prescott. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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