Scythe Infinity arrived today

[Richard Dower]

Does this cooler fit on a Gigabyte DQ6?

[Shift]

Were your temps good with the Big Typhoon?

Also I don't think he can RAM the Infinity b/c he did dremel some of it.

[WesM63]

Were your temps good with the Big Typhoon?

Also I don't think he can RAM the Infinity b/c he did dremel some of it.

I never had a BT on the e6600. I had a BT on my old opty146 rig.

I decided to go with water instead. Rest of the parts should be arriving here shortly.

[fhpchris]

Were your temps good with the Big Typhoon?

Also I don't think he can RAM the Infinity b/c he did dremel some of it.

His temps with coretemp @ full load @ 1.5v = 70c

With my Sanyo Denki + typhoon I can prime @ 69c or less @ 1.65v.

So, no. Typhoon > this.

Navig did alot of tests of coolers, the typhoon is still great

[WesM63]

Actually chris, 70c in Asus probe, core temp was 83-85c. Thus the reason i'm running at stock speeds (and water cooling is on the way). Something is terribly wrong with my cooler. Others don't seem to be getting quite as high of temps as me.

[fhpchris]

Actually chris, 70c in Asus probe, core temp was 83-85c. Thus the reason i'm running at stock speeds (and water cooling is on the way). Something is terribly wrong with my cooler. Others don't seem to be getting quite as high of temps as me.

WOW!

I was talking 68-69c in coretemp!

[xlink]

well mine fits almost flawlessly ona DFI Infinity 975x/g only had to adjust the fan up and that si pretty much something which is effortless

the scythe is infact huge... I'll be taking fishing line to create some sort of a hoiste for it to allow for better and easier moving


on another note, intel did a ty job with their mounting design, it is seriosuly ty. no i mean it is the crappiest i have ever seen. slot A was better, socket A/754/939/940 was better. socket AM2 is better, I bet 478 is better too, heck probably even 423 is better...

[exhausted mule]

^^^ all it is is four holes in the motherboard...

what get's me is scythe bracket.

seems it was designed in a weightless venturi tunnel meant to be mounted with precision 300 pound gorilla fingers operated by a rocket scientist speciallising in physics and geometry.

i mean...

why?

[pentium777]

Is that core temp? If it is, I've been prime stable above that (75C), but don't really like running there.

What's the difference between your core and mb temp?

During Orthos it is running 68'C average with 75'F ambient, mainboard sticks to around 40'C, except when running games in 2560x1600 max AA/AF/super transparency on 2x7900 GTX then mainboard gets to 50'C

[t1no]

Is the Scythe Infinity compatible witb the DFI Ultra-D?

[drtitanium0]

Is the Scythe Infinity compatible witb the DFI Ultra-D?

Compatible, yes. The thing I don't know if is it will fit without hitting anything on the board. I can't find out because nobody on the forum that i know of has tried this combination yet. its really starting to piss me off.

[dinos22]

Not sure what you mean by that, i only gained 1-2c when installing a 130cfm fan on the BT.

it's not CFM but air pressure that's important

i think Kiwi tested this cooler and reckons it was better by 10C to TTBT which sounds a bit off if you ask me>>>just can't see it lol hehehe but these CPUs get really hot and 1.5V is nothing to sneeze at so the temps are probably right

[dinos22]

just saw a pic of another installation

can you check whether your heatsink is sitting on this cap and if MAYBE that's making the base not touch the IHS as well as it should

[WesM63]

Dino's,
Well that cap is not there on my board. Not to mention the Infinity is setting on the floor beside me





EDIT: In case anyone is wondering. Setup is: Swiftech Storm, MCP655/D5 pump, BIX 120 with Sanyo Denki fan, 7/16" Master Kleer tubing and some cheap bay res i've had forever. Temps full load at 1.51Vcore 3.6ghz is 65c in Core temp (was 83c with infinity)

[Shift]

That's a pretty tight fit for a pump.

So did your temps get better?

[WesM63]

Temps full load at 1.51Vcore 3.6ghz is 65c in Core temp .(was 83c with infinity in core temp)

I'd say so.

[t1no]

I'd say so.

Did you compare the temps with other air coolers yet? not just the infinity.

[WesM63]

Did you compare the temps with other air coolers yet? not just the infinity.

Did i compare temps of what vs other air coolers? My watercooling vs other air coolers?

I dropped my temps 18c by going to water, that was what I was after. I could care less what other air coolers do now.

[dinos22]

18C drop is a hell of a lot man...............i reckon the infinity just wasn't mounted right but that's awesome mate

one other thing i would also mount a fan over the upper side of the storm blowing at all the phases/PMWs/caps and maybe another over the RAM if you are pushing it hard

[WesM63]

18C drop is a hell of a lot man...............i reckon the infinity just wasn't mounted right but that's awesome mate

one other thing i would also mount a fan over the upper side of the storm blowing at all the phases/PMWs/caps and maybe another over the RAM if you are pushing it hard

Funny you say that. I was having some issues.. until I put the other Sanyo Denki over the phases/pwms/caps and seems fine now

[xlink]

word to the wise, the infiity can obscure the view of things around the board. my motehrbaord had some semi=large capacitors near the socket which the infinity obscured from sight, I then proceded to route the main ATX power cable through the area f'ing over the capacitors. The results was a lot mroe juice delivered to the chip. The infinifty idled 50Cish and the stock cooler idled 75Cish. I'm sure it's the board because it was in the low 30s(with the infiity) prior to f'ing the capacitors.though i suspect it might just be an issue with a temp sensor... I don't know.

currently in the process of getting a replacement board...

my conclusion: The scythe infiity is an A + cooler. A cooler which is meant to be used by someone with an IQ higher than 50.

I do not have such a tremendously high Intelect such that I should not use the infinity... NEXT BOARD PLEASE...

[dinos22]

Funny you say that. I was having some issues.. until I put the other Sanyo Denki over the phases/pwms/caps and seems fine now

yeah those bloody thinks get really hot during prime >> it's good you got it sortout out

[Anavel0]

Is it just me or are they just making heatsinks larger with more heatpipes and fins?

[xlink]

Is it just me or are they just making heatsinks larger with more heatpipes and fins?

it's definately just you...

wait nvm

no shid they are...

it's just more effective.

they are also using stronger fans.

[Vapor]

Well, for the few hours I had my system up and running today (another dead board....that's 4 for me now ), I got to test my Infinity for the first time. E6700 @ 3.66GHz 1.6V was ORTHOSing at 54/55C according to core temp, about 10C better than what my BT did (with the same 120x120x25mm 105CFM fan). Idle was low 30s.

At 4GHz 1.675V, 1M loaded the one core at 54C and the other sat at 44C....dual idle was 40/41C. Not sure how this did compared to my BT, as my old P5W DH couldn't get the CPU up to 4GHz air.

3.85GHz 1.65 dual 16M load was 62/63C...vs ~76C of the BT (and the BT could only do it at ~3.8GHz).

These were all done with the same med/high-pressure 105CFM fan.