my Exos came in :D

TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
edited June 2004 in Hardware
so I recieved my Exos setup from madmat about a week ago and finally got around to installing it. what I used were a Zalman ZM-WB2 waterblock and a Koolance GPU-180 gfx waterblock along with the Exos itself

my setup consists of, importantly:
IS7 (one of the ****ty old revisions that reads temps way too high), 2.8C week 11 Malaysia, 1 gb pc4000, rad 9700 aiw pro.

now the windows case temp is currently reading 43C but the Koolance is reading 27, so i'm going to average and say my actual case temp is really somewhere around 35ish, since all the stock lian-li fans blow. the cpu temp is reading at 49 load, which is a big improvement from the 60 load with an slk900u and a 50cfm 92mm fan.

i'll post some overclocking results later, suffice it to say im impressed

btw, what the hell is a PWM and why is it 5C degrees hotter than my CPU?

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2004
    wow ... 2.8c?! i have mine with an slk-947 and a SF2 which currently is at 3900 rpm and my max temp at load is 37*C ...
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    told you, the board reads temps absolutely incorrectly. the general concensus is you subtract 10-15 degrees to get a normal abit temp. you, on the other hand, are using a gigabyte board, which read notoriously low (as do Asus boards).

    later rev's of my same board dont have this problem but i did substantial checking to make sure 60C load was right with an SLK-900. plus i must have remounted the thing 20 times, im an expert by now
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2004
    ah ok. i didn't know if you meant the cpu temp as well or just the case temp. so than that's durn good, my bad lol. and i put a thermal probe in the center of the fins, and got a reading of 34*C load. when i did that, my SF2 was mounted backwards, and my board was reading temps of 38*C ... i pushed the thing as far towards the base of the hsf as i could, so i think it's actually a lot closer than i thought it was. i guess pwm stands for pulse width modulator and has something to do with motors/fan control...not sure ... didn't feel like reading all the mumbo-jumbo but here's a link i found PWM
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    well the impression i've gotten is that the PWM is a temperature readout for the 4-phase voltage regulator circuit on the board. the question is, does anyone know where if its possible to cool it?
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