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8th February 2006, 19:33 | #1 |
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| Retail 955XE fixes thermal issues at a price You may recall that we had some problems with our Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 setup that caused us to delay our review a bit. The motherboard, CPU, and cooler combo we received from Intel for review didn't always cool the CPU sufficiently under load, leading to thermal throttling. We've now tested a production Intel CPU/motherboard/cooler combo, and we have some good news and some bad news...
__________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II |
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__________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II | |
9th February 2006, 15:41 | #3 |
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| 62.6 dba o_O Intel seriously needs to outsource cooler design |
9th February 2006, 16:20 | #4 |
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| not really, they need to seriously look at their thermal design the reason the system is loud is because of the thermal loss of their CPU, while upgrading CPU cooler will be a remedy, it's far from ideal. if they attack the core issue (cpu heat) all other things will resolve themselve.
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9th February 2006, 18:14 | #5 |
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| sure, but it's far easier to slap a better cooler with some heatpipes on the CPU right now |
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