Watercooling

[Stephen!]

That is bad for Liquid cooling i'd say.

I think Bear's i7 is about that and he's on air

Can I see a picture of how everything is set up in the loop?

[scottish]

yeh i know, lol

Should be well lower :S at 4.2Ghz i maxed at 85 degrees doing the 3dMark CPU test, lol

[Stephen!]

And that's at stock voltage or?

Just hope you don't say it's on auto

[scottish]

its on awto

[Stephen!]

Oh noes!

It's probably raised the voltage to something much higher than it should be. I'm not familiar with 45nm chip voltages so I don't know what's the highest safe setting. Voltage has a big effect on the temperature.

Edit: I think the max should be something like 1.35v for normal use. Take it off auto and set it to 1.25v and 3.8GHz and give that a go.

Btw, what is the VID of the chip?

[scottish]

gd question

coretemp dnt wna tell me.

also current voltage is 1.424 V

[Stephen!]

And that's on overclocked and auto? Hmm, thats really quite high for a 45nm chip. Probably best to take it off auto and use 1.35v

[scottish]

yeh auto

[Tomm]

I'd discourge use of the intel burn test as it pushes your CPU beyond anything possible during normal operation (even full scale video encoding or 3D rendering). If you do use the results, take them with a pinch of salt.