Holy crap!

That is certainly brag worthy!


But I must also brag, my Stock cooled X2 4800 never gets past 29 degrees celcius :D


Then again, my giant video card gets nice and warm and that causes problems for my motherboard becasue one of the temp sensors is right under it :(

Dudes...The new intel proc's don't need this ridiculous crap. It was always a bad design, the thermal waste of their processors, and the Core Duo X6800, with a midrange fan doesn't budge, temp-wise. Heck, supposedly, it'll run for hours and hours without the fan running.

Costs too much for me to own for the next four years, but by then, hopefully, all the designs will be running cooler...including those GPUs.

For the record, my system survives with 39-50 degree CPU temperatures, and mid thirties everywhere else.

Of the many many coolers I've tried over the years... the best HSF I've found is the Zalman CNP-S7000 series, great cooling and almost silent. The only thing I've ever seen better is liquid, but liquid is a PITA for anything other than hobby type builds. My Koolance case is about as well designed as liquid systems get but I still won't do it again. The Zalman will keep my Athlon 64 3200 in the low-mid 30's all day, which is perfectly adequate. FWIW the Koolance case will hold cpu temps to a couple degrees C above ambient, low 20's usually. Overclocking is where liquid does help... but overclocking is even more of a PITA than liquid cooling. (guess I'm getting old and bored with constantly fixing computers when I break em)

<-has Zalman AlCu 7000 and is very pleased with it.
BTW, Hive, those are NICE NUMBERS! Especially for a stock cooler.