Bragging Rights

[absic]

OK, I know it has been a little colder than usual in the UK and the outside temperature where I live has been below freezing for the past couple of days. Also I don't actually heat the room where I work as the PC and Audio equipment I use, generates enough heat to keep me more than happy. But the past couple of days I have been getting some lovely early start temperatures from my PC.

This morning, when I fired it up CoreTemp was showing only 7°C


20 minutes later and it was still only 14°C


Can you beat these figures?

[hornet_CZ]

you win... 
I've got 37°C-39°C while starting...(outside temp 21°C)
plus I've slightly overclocked the 965 to 3.5Ghz
so the max temp won't exceed 50°C
(which is enough to satisfy me

[absic]

Yes, as you can see from the images I have O/C'd my Phenom ii X6 1090T to 3.8GHz but luckily this has been done with the CPU Voltage at only 1.3V so It doesn't generate a lot of heat. Also I am using the Noctua NH-D14 which is an amazing air cooler, even if it is a little on the large side.

As I write this, it is just after 11.00 am and I have been using the PC for a little video rendering and CoreTemp is still only showing 20°C

[bytheway_r]

You win . Not sure about just after start but mine's idling at 25-27 degrees. Ambient isn't much lower, though. Still, I'm cheating as these values are for 800 and 1400Mhz. Above that it goes up some. At 3.5Ghz it's ~35 degrees idle. On the other hand, I'm letting bios control the fan, so it'd probably go down a little if I were to set it to max.

For the moment - I can't wait to put my gear in that HAF 932 case. That should bring my temps down a degree or 2 . I'm switching a few things, so I'm still waiting for the new MB to arrive.

People can be quite creative. I've bought an x2 555 BE that's guaranteed to run as a quad at 3.8Ghz. Quite a good deal if you ask me, considering that it was noticeably cheaper than 955 BE.

Btw. Don't worry, the new MB is also from Gigabyte .

[Greed4Speed]

I had my system running at -180c last week with liquid nitrogen.  Also last year I stuck my watercooling radiator outside the window and measured -2c on my cpu.

[Dark Mantis]

I have part of my cooling loop permanently fixed outside the house for extra cooling.

[Greed4Speed]

I have part of my cooling loop permanently fixed outside the house for extra cooling.

That's a good idea, that's the way to do it

[Dark Mantis]

If only I could work out a way to get a nice steady trickle of LN2 over it now....