Is there a way to underclock a processor? I have a P4 3.2ghz, lately it's been getting really hot. It idles around 47c now, when I first got it I could have sworn it was at 38. It has an liquid cooling system. I recently taped a second fan on the other side of the radiator (which brought the temp down to 47ish, when it was at 53c). I used to use the overclocker in the bios to move it up to 3.4ghz, could that have harmed it?
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Anonymous2005-12-13 6:24
Much change in the enviroment? Do keep in mind, surrounding conditions do affect it as well. Like heaters, for instance?
If that dosen't apply, reply back, and we'll see.
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Anonymous2005-12-13 7:09
The enviroment has remained unchanged. Here is a picture taken with my webcam (sorry for the low quality). http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pc0ol.jpg
Everything is kind of a mess. I added a rubber band to hold the duct tape on the second fan.
You're experiencing the downside of a liquid-cooled proc. Much more difficult-to-diagnose heating problems. Do you have temp sensors in your coolant lines and a flowmeter on your pump? It's possible that your liquid system isn't operating with the efficiency that it once was.
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Anonymous2005-12-14 9:57
I'm just taking shots in the dark with my prior (but not tested) water cooling knowledge. You might concider just draining it and changing the water out with a fresh amount. If you're running tap water through it and your system (I've seen a lot of that) you might swap over to distilled water...especially if you've got a system independent of your home water supply.
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Anonymous2005-12-14 13:06
Would someone enlighten me as to the benefits of using liquid cooling these days? It's not like the "slow 90x90mm fan + fecking huge copper heatsink + heatpipes + gimmicks" solution is appreciably worse temperature-wise anymore, and with a case built to minimize sound emissions the quietness factor of water cooling kinda goes out of the window if combined with diagnosis problems such as the O.P. is having.
So tell me. Is there any point anymore, apart from extra HC overclocking?
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Anonymous2005-12-14 15:38
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I'd say the point to liquid cooling is xtreeeeme overclocking that, without liquid cooling, would otherwise require you to turn down the computer room temperature to ungodly low levels to allow for optimum environment temperatures and load a ton of fans into your case.
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Anonymous2005-12-14 16:07
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I think this has just overloaded my irony meter.