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Duby2 · 06-24-2009, 10:09 AM

I currently have a thermaltake waterblock w/acrylic cover, its about 4 years old now. It cooled my p4 3.4ghz prescott quite well with vga and northbridge in the loop. Recently i had bought an AMD 955be 3.2gz with the msi 790gx-g65 mobo and slapped my waterblocks in it from my p4 system. I then started bios and seen its idle at 40c,Upon booting vista and running the msi corecenter utility i see that it gets down to about 37c idle, No overclock mind you. I then start prime95(stress/stabilty test) under load for 3 hours the cpu maxes out at 52-53c. the max for this cpu is 62. At stock speeds I think im alright but i would like to Overclock. Could this just be a crap old waterblock not designed to handle 4 cores, and does anyone have suggestions for a new cpu block that performs well with the AMD 955be cpu..

06-24-2009, 10:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
Duby2 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: michigan Posts: 3 OS: Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit/Vista 64bit My System	Current waterblock not sufficent for AMD 955be need suggestions. I currently have a thermaltake waterblock w/acrylic cover, its about 4 years old now. It cooled my p4 3.4ghz prescott quite well with vga and northbridge in the loop. Recently i had bought an AMD 955be 3.2gz with the msi 790gx-g65 mobo and slapped my waterblocks in it from my p4 system. I then started bios and seen its idle at 40c,Upon booting vista and running the msi corecenter utility i see that it gets down to about 37c idle, No overclock mind you. I then start prime95(stress/stabilty test) under load for 3 hours the cpu maxes out at 52-53c. the max for this cpu is 62. At stock speeds I think im alright but i would like to Overclock. Could this just be a crap old waterblock not designed to handle 4 cores, and does anyone have suggestions for a new cpu block that performs well with the AMD 955be cpu..