Lifting the tube of the CPU contact seemed to be good, but could be better



So the next day I retried, this time I used Acetone inside the tube which seemed to improve base temp slightly, sitting at a cosy -78°C



The BIOS reports -38°C for the CPU (at idle)



Once in windows under full load temperatures crept up towards -20°C which was quite good actually and overclocking went easier and got better clocks: 3678Mhz



The CPU maximum overclock while still remaining “stable” enough to not crash the screen capture program was ~150Mhz shy of 4ghz:



With a bigger container (tube) we should be able to get better (lower) temperatures under load so a higher stable overclock can be achieved, the motherboard and memory is able to run at ~270Mhz HTT without issue.

To recap the advances:




I like to thank my sidekick Cranox for his help and assistance, until next time!

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