AMD Athlon64 FX-57 San Diego 90nm + Corsair Hydrocool 200EX

[eva2000]

I decided to retest my FX-57 cpu on Corsair Hydrocool 200EX to compare with original results with my MCW6002/G4 Storm water cooling DIY loop at http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=974.

As you could see in my Opteron 146 adventures thread (http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=1594), apparently my Cathar/Swiftech G4 Storm water cooling loop was apparently flawed. So i switched to my back up, Corsair Hydrocool 200EX external water cooling unit. There is definitely an improvement in max stable clocks on my Corsair Hydrocool 200EX for each cpu i tried compared to my flawed G4 Storm water cooling loop.

FX-57 CABCE 0516 WPMW

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http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/thumbnails/thumb_Hydrocool_001.jpg (http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/photos/Hydrocool_001.html) http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/thumbnails/thumb_Hydrocool_003.jpg (http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/photos/Hydrocool_003.html) http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/thumbnails/thumb_Hydrocool_005.jpg (http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/photos/Hydrocool_005.html) http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/thumbnails/thumb_Hydrocool_006.jpg (http://www.fileshosts.com/watercooling/HC200/DFI_NF4_SLI_DR/html/photos/Hydrocool_006.html)

System

FX-57 CABCE 0516WPMW Corsair Hydrocool 200EX
DFI NF4 UT SLI-DR R.AB0 618-3 beta bios
1x BFG 7800GTX 81.82 beta drivers
4x 80GB Hitachi 7K80 SATAII Raid 0
1x 250GB Maxtor Maxline Plus II PATA
Pioneer DVD Burner
Floppy drive
650W Silverstone SLI PSU

WinXP Pro SP2
NF4 6.53WHQL chipset drivers

Info

- Max I could do on G4 Storm water cooling setup was 3090-3105mhz at 1.62-1.664v and that took literally 2 or 3 dozen water block remounts to get right pressure contact.

- Max I could do on Swiftech MCW6002 water cooling setup (exact same as G4 Storm setup just different water block) was 3105-3120mhz at 1.6-1.65v

- Today plucked FX-57 back in with Corsair Hydrocool 200EX and less than 12hrs since AS5 was applied i dialed up 3105mhz at 1.6v and so far so good.

Here's untweaked run just to see where the FX-57 cpu is at on Corsair Hydrocool 200EX. Dinos your wish has been granted seeing FX-57 on Hydrocool :)

Room temp = 29.6C to 30.8C
CPU idle = 40-42C
CPU load = 52-55C

CPUZ Validation:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=48602

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/FX57/Hydrocool200EX/Gskill/PC4400LE/2x512/758_757/618_3/LDT3x/11x/282-282-2.5337-7-14-2222_1.64-1.4-1.6-2.85_3684_ds7dds1_16clk_8F5_16x7x/superpi-8m_tn.jpg

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/FX57/Hydrocool200EX/Gskill/PC4400LE/2x512/758_757/618_3/LDT3x/11x/282-282-2.5337-7-14-2222_1.64-1.4-1.6-2.85_3684_ds7dds1_16clk_8F5_16x7x/superpi-32m_twk_tn.jpg

Corsair Hydrocool 200EX is one very under estimated water cooling kit!

[Supertim0r]

how many chips you got ?

[eva2000]

only just 1x FX-57 or if you mean AMD64 cpus other than FX-57, then I have a few :)

[Supertim0r]

It's hard to get "hot" cpu here...i'll receive my opty 144 and 146 when you'll sell your "old" dual cores opty :rolleyes: :(

[eva2000]

i've never played with dual core cpus before hehe

managed to break my old 32M PB of 23m 24s

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/FX57/Hydrocool200EX/Gskill/PC4400LE/2x512/758_757/618_3/LDT3x/11x/282-282-2.5337-7-14-2212_1.64-1.4-1.6-2.9_3684_ds7dds1_16clk_8F5_16x7x/superpi-32m_tn.jpg

[eva2000]

here's 2x 512MB Corsair XMS3500C2v1.1 BH-5 :D

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/FX57/Hydrocool200EX/Corsair/XMS3500C2/2x512/naked/2_1/618_3/LDT3x/12x/259-259-2225-7-14-2222_1.64-1.5-1.6-3.44_3120_dsW2dds1_7F5_16clk_16x7x/superpi-32m_tn.jpg

[eva2000]

23m 10.266s :)

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/FX57/Hydrocool200EX/Corsair/XMS3500C2/2x512/naked/2_1/618_3/LDT3x/12x/259-259-2220-7-12-0212_1.64-1.5-1.6-3.44_3120_dsW2dds1_6F5_00clk_16x7x/superpi-32m_tn.jpg

[Ferry82]

Eva how many stormblocks you had?

Maybe you just got a bad one?????

Did you ask Cather?

[EnJoY]

Your temps are not good at all for watercooling. The storm, assuming you had a decent pump and radiator along with it, should load around 8-10c less than that.

[k00lance]

3.1 @ 1.6v is just not right.
Any better cooling to test?
I don't think 0516's did too good on air/water.

[Magnj]

Needs more Jiggawatts