I have been playing with this for the past few days and I have to say that I am very impressed. I do NOT think it is for everyone, but if you can feed it with a high cfm fan, such as a Vantec Tornado, and duct some good time winter air onto it, you may just be able to turn in some incredible temperatures.
That’s a picture of my rig being fired up this morning.
And that’s a picture of it warmed up running SETI@home.
As you can see, it does allow for sub-ambient cooling given the right setup.
If you do go the route of “ducted” cooling, there is another HUGE benefit… that air will cool your memory and chipset. Even though there is a TEC on top of my processor, the Tornado is moving the air so fast that it(the air) stays cold. Result, an almost freezing memory stick and chipset heatsink.
The setup:
AMD XP2400+
Epox 8K9A2+
Swiftech MCX462+T
Vantec Tornado 80mm 84cfm
Sparkle 350 power supply(w/ pots)
ATI Xpert 2000 Pro(I know, I know)
Radio Shack 25A 12V Power Supply(for TEC & Tornado)
As you can see, the TEC requires a beefy power supply. Swiftech recommends dedicating at least 18A on the 12v line just for the TEC. The RS power supply I’m using is rated for 25A@13.8V so it probably will push close to 30A at the 12.4V I have it set for.
The bottom line… I’ve been able to run over 2300MHz with this chip on air so that’s no big deal. What is a big deal is that I needed 2.2V to do it. :eek: Now with this air-TEC(and some cold winter air), I only need 1.9V.
M8y I am glad you have been testing one of these out as it has been said by many that no way would it cope with a 220w Tec
The fact you got it running and getting decent temps shows that they have done something right.
I think the fact in itself that its an all in one design probably
helps out getting more heat away and dispersed than a DIY design of petlier + heatsink combo.
Think the word COOL springs to mind
So much so its now a review thread
Well on the MSI K7D XP2400+ locked I just got a 2.8 on air as a first pass with hardly any tweaking. Figure after a bit of this & that 2.5 should be real doable.
Just playing a little bit with the cold weather we’ve been having. It was -15c outside this morning so I thought I’d see what the air-TEC could do with a little idle CPU time.
but i have a question. im running on the a7n8x/2400+/xms3000 and can only manage 2.3 out of it with 1.75, any more v and my temps go into the 40’s, even though my basement is around 20-25C, mb temp is around 32C.
and this isnt even stable. prime95 and superpi report errors after or before the first round. could o/cing my video card as well cause this instability. im beginning the think its the ram…
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You’ll just have to wait 'til Mulda updates the benchie page. :devil:
I didn’t catch it right away but our good friend Mulda broke the case wide open. 