Post Your Overclock!

[A Guy]

Yikes! Lucky you didn't smoke that CPU! Must admit, I spent considerable time researching coolers before deciding on the Hyper 212+. Looked an some Noctuas, Proliminatech Megatherms Rev B, Scythe Mugen V2, and some others that performed slightly better, but were much more expensive, and considerably larger. I'm glad I picked it as it performs great for me, and in reading in the years since then, it is highly recommended. Not just as a low cost solution, but as a solution period. A Guy

 

[smarteyeball]

Yep, the Hyper 212+ is good all round performer.

 

[GeneO]

Bill I watch those temps carefully. LOL. Yeah, about 50% of the CPU wasn't making contact. I noticed one of the two middle cores was several degrees higher under load than the other, so expected poor contact. Now the teo middle cores run about the same

Patrick - it sure is a nice little performer.

So I have looked at the brackets on the Hyper 612 and I think the problem is that the bracket is slightly bent towards the MB giving the screw room to pop out of its indent as it is being tightened (if you look at the picture of the end of the screw, the thread doesn;t go all the way up to the head). So anyone with a Hyper 612 experiencing these issues, check that your brackets are true.

I am through messing with it myself. My target was 4.5 GHz and I am there fine with the 212+

 

[GeneO]

70-72c under Prime load .. that looks pretty good IMO.

That should mean the most heavy real worl load should probably hit maybe 62C. Which is a really good place to be I think.

Yeah, these chips are pretty amazing, but everyone already knows that. I am kind of trailing edge I get the last years technology right before the new comes out.

Wonder how the Ivy bridge will do. They should at least run cooler.

 

[Wishmaster]

Same here. Only had my new build for 3 months now, maybe a little over.

 

[A Guy]

My PC is 2 years old this Thursday I'm still on an i5 750. Serves me well, and no plans to replace. I keep mine a while. I know I'm unusual here

A Guy

 

[smarteyeball]

I am through messing with it myself. My target was 4.5 GHz and I am there fine with the 212+

Same here. Only had my new build for 3 months now, maybe a little over.

We built ours around roughly the same time iirc.

My PC is 2 years old this Thursday I'm still on an i5 750. Serves me well, and no plans to replace. I keep mine a while. I know I'm unusual here

A Guy

Mate if it does the job, that's all you can ask for and it's not as if it's a slouch



My IC Diamond 24 paste just arrived, now I've just got to find the enthusiasm to pull everything apart and apply it

 

[Britton30]

I just got a Hyper EVO which is identical to the 212+ except the heat tubes have no space btween them. Seems to do a real good job so far, but I've not tried to make toast with my CPU.

 

[smarteyeball]

My IC Diamond 24 paste just arrived, now I've just got to find the enthusiasm to pull everything apart and apply it

Found the enthusiasm and got a 5-7c drop in temps across all cores

 

[Wishmaster]

5-7C drop?

thast pretty significant for TiM. Usually a 1-3 difference beteen most.

Im still using MX-2 as I have for awhile now. maybe its time to start looking others.

 

[smarteyeball]

It's pretty impressive I must say.

Part of it could have been a poor application with the old paste and the improvement could simply be a combo of good paste application of great TIM.

Either way idle temps are lower and so are load temps and that's all that counts I guess

At any rate, I'm an IC Diamond convert

 

[A Guy]

My IC Diamond 24 paste just arrived, now I've just got to find the enthusiasm to pull everything apart and apply it

Found the enthusiasm and got a 5-7c drop in temps across all cores

Quite impressive! A Guy

 

[Britton30]

Here's my new board setup so far. 3rd board, ASrock Fatal1ty 990FX Pro, 1st two were bad. This one is nominal.
Note the temps,my room temp is ~23.3C

 

[essenbe]

Nice job Gary. I thought you had 1866 memory. That's running at 1866 but cpuz says it is 1600. If you have 1600 runing at 1866, that really is a good job.

 

[Britton30]

Yeah, it is 1866 running at 1840, CPUz is stupid in the Max Bandwidth figure.

 

[Dave76]

CPUZ memory tab has it running at 940MHz (1880MHz), it reads the actual RAM frequency.

The CPUZ SPD tab is the information added to the RAM by the manufacturer, it's the tested JEDEC standard, this info is there so the motherboard can read it and set the timings and frequency automatically.
This was put there by the manufacturer, it's common for them to have these lower settings, even if they have a larger number printed on the package.
Doesn't make much sense but, it's what they do on a regular basis.


Nice specs, hope this one runs for you.

 

[Britton30]

After a reboot....


Looks like I'll have to start over again. Remind me not to buy ASrock again.

 

[GeneO]

It's pretty impressive I must say.

Part of it could have been a poor application with the old paste and the improvement could simply be a combo of good paste application of great TIM.

Either way idle temps are lower and so are load temps and that's all that counts I guess

At any rate, I'm an IC Diamond convert

I will chalk it up to the more paste you apply, the better you get at it.

Otherwise I would have to buy some and open up my case and apply new TIM yet again *argggh*.

 

[GeneO]

Here's my new board setup so far. 3rd board, ASrock Fatal1ty 990FX Pro, 1st two were bad. This one is nominal.
Note the temps,my room temp is ~23.3C
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Very nice Gary!

 

[essenbe]

It's pretty impressive I must say.

Part of it could have been a poor application with the old paste and the improvement could simply be a combo of good paste application of great TIM.

Either way idle temps are lower and so are load temps and that's all that counts I guess

At any rate, I'm an IC Diamond convert

I really have no ambition to open my case and re install the cooler, but if it will improve my temps, I'll do it. My IC Diamond is in the mail. It will also give me an opportunity to reconfigure my cooler installation. Then if I get a good improvement, I won't know which is responsible, and won't really care.