E6600 LGA775 - Hydrocool 200EX lives on!

[eva2000]

The Thermaltake Big Typhoon was the best investment I made. Why ? Because it's LGA775 mounting gear is perfect for my old and trusty Corsair Hydrocool 200EX unit which uses puny 1/4" OD tubing but still packs the cooling power to beat the Big Typhoon heatsink

The pictures:

First, a pic of the Hydrocool 200EX stock waterblock with 1/4" OD tubing and what I intend to do with Big Typhoon mounting gear for LGA775 socket. Yes 6mm inner diameter tubing .. puny but still effective for this



Problem though is the waterblock has a thermal probe for displaying temps on Hydrocool 200EX and it's soldered to the top of the block making mounting uneven. So what to do ? Yup, Thermaltake again to the rescue with copper BGA ramsinks



Much more even mounting surface now:



Corsair Hydrocool 200EX lives on thanks to Thermaltake Big Typhoon and BGA copper ramsinks



Full pics at http://i4memory.com/reviewimages/coo...X_LGA775/html/

How's it performing ?

Corsair Hydrocool 200EX with TT Big Typhoon LGA775 mount
CPU bios idle = 31-32C idle in bios (that's 5-8C cooler than Big Typhoon)
CPU windows idle = 24-25C (that's 7-8C cooler than Big Typhoon)
CPU load = 36-39C (that's a full 8-11C cooler than Big Typhoon)

@3750Mhz at 1.5v
Big Typhoon idle = 45-48C room temp = 24.5C
Big Typhoon load = 82-83C room temp = 24.5C
vs
Hydrocool 200EX idle = 34-36C room temp = 21.5C
Hydrocool 200EX load = 65-66C room temp = 21.5C



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[Baldrick]

Nice ghetto waterblock modding :p Good temps for a kit like that.

Is it me or is that waterblock really thin?

[eva2000]

Yeah it's a thin block Corsair used optimised for very low flow heh

[Ychocky]

Love the Zalman ramsinks in every possible place

I was very suprised when I saw how well the Hydrocool kit worked on a friends rig.

[theteamaqua]

i modded my bigtyphoon with memory heatsink and a silverstone 110CFM fan, about 6c to 7c drop both idle/load ... so much for watercooling.

i am really not into WC. I dont think that amount of tmeperature should cost several hundred dollars.

[eva2000]

Yeah reused zalman ramsinks rather than let them sit around exposed to the air hehe

Yup hydrocool got all my s939 cpus to high clocks, Opteron 170 to 2.95ghz, FX-60 to 3.109ghz, FX-57 to 3.150ghz and Opteron 146-148 to 3.1-3.15ghz

i modded my bigtyphoon with memory heatsink and a silverstone 110CFM fan, about 6c to 7c drop both idle/load ... so much for watercooling.

i am really not into WC. I dont think that amount of tmeperature should cost several hundred dollars.

Well the real benefit is once oc'd... but to each his own

[theteamaqua]

yeha i mean when i save enough i will buy phase change. Now thats $800 well spend ...

[AndrewZorn]

well now i know they make 1/4" OD tubing for water kits

[eva2000]

So far nice improvement.. managed to increase my clock from Big Typhoon @3865mhz to Hydrocool 200EX @3878mhz and cut 2.703 seconds of my personal best 32M time

[eva2000]

Wow i changed power supplies from 650W Silverston SLI to my 1KW PCP&C SLI psu on this Hydrocool 200EX cooled E6600 rig and it seems my Gskill PC6400PHU2 2GB HZ pair #1 is clocking higher than it did on my other E6600/Intel D975XBX rig at http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=2928. On other rig at 2.2v vdimm with 4-4-4-12 timing the max for pair #1 was 478mhz, but on this rig so far been able to do 486mhz and i haven't tried higher yet!

I wonder if it's the better psu or the better Intel D975XBX Badaxe motherboard on this 2nd rig that is the reason for higher mem clocks ?

Here's pair #1 at 486mhz 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v



Also seems to have managed my highest cpu clocked passed 32M runs since changing power supplies. Not my fastest times but that can be worked on later

@3882mhz


@3886mhz

[eva2000]

No probs for pair #1 to complete 32M at 490mhz 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v, that's 12mhz higher than with other badaxe/700W OCZ GameXStream system at same timings and vdimm!

CPUZ Validation http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=109066



And here's dual 32M at 490mhz 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v

Digi cam shot at half way mark


near the end


Complete @3533Mhz at 9x392fsb with memory @490mhz 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v

[eva2000]

Anyway giving Super Pi a rest while i raid the ORB with FM approved 6.5 drivers

1st submission for 3dmark06 @729/859 stock hsf air for X1900CF/X1900XTX combo



Compare Url = http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=411731

Not too often will I see myself in FM Hall of Fame Top 5

All stock hsf for HIS X1900CF @732/859 + Gecube X1900XTX @729/859

Compare Url = http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=411744

[eva2000]

Some more stability tests, Hydrocool 200EX holding it's own although room temps have risen nearly 5+ C since last heh.

@9x400fsb = 3600mhz at 1.418v straight from bios to boot into windows, ran dual stressprime large FFTs for 2 1/2hrs then while still running, ran 3dmark06 with X1900 Crossfire at stock 625/725

idle



load

[Badge56]

Well I ordered a replacement braket for the big thyphoon (like you ) and installed it on my Hydrocool.... I found a better way than the RAM sinks to install it... did not have any anyways...
I just bolted the braket to the AMD retention block ( black metal block ) and that gave me the clearance I needed for the heat sensor on the water block. Fits reeel nice just like if it was made by Corsair.

Idle core temps are 45C idle and 64-68C Full load. The water is 31-33 depending on ambiant.. 6600E @ 3500 Vcore 1.52. 100% stable
What are you guys getting temp wise with your Hydrocool?

Pictures soon...:

[eva2000]

nice . looking forward to pics

[natedog420]

my bro picked up one off ebay for 30 bucks and i made a mounting bracket out of acrylic for 775 for him. i lapped the water block and cpu. hes runnin e6300 at 3ghz at 35-40c idle/load. i was very impressed with the results from the unit and was cheap so great deal and works good.