this is the ninja mounted to my board with the TT bolt-thru kit.
i put washers between the spring and the mounting clips to apply more pressure.
i feel my temps are still a bit high
in TAT/Speedfan beta at 1.35v at 3.25ghz under orthos small fft load i get to about 65/63 on cores after half an hour. in speedfan the tcase temp hits about 58. at these settings my idle is about 50/48 in TAT for the cores and about 39 for Tcase in speedfan.
at 1.31v at 3.15ghz i get about 60/58 max core temps after 30 minutes of orthos small fft. the Tcase temp as reported by speedfan beta hangs out at about 53c under load. idle i get about 35c for my Tcase in speedfan, and 48/46 for my cores in TAT.
what do u think? i feel this is high. i feel i should be getting my temps at 1.35-1.36volts what i am getting at 1.31v.
this chip can fly, i ran it at 3.6ghz stable at 1.4v but didnt keep it there long during tests, but it ran them fine. temps scared me. id like to run this at 3.4 24/7 but i would need about 1.4v and with these results at 1.35 i dont see this happening.
i lapped the cpu well. used up to 800 grit. checked it with a razor blade and i didnt see light. the heatsink was also lapped. i didnt worry about a mirror finish, i was more concerned with flatness. i went up to 1500 grit. the razor blade test was not as perfect as the chip but very close.
i applied the right amount of as5, the thin line down the middle of the chip as per their website.
the mounting has enough pressure, as i can see that i have threading left to screw down more, but i cant - i leaned down hard on the screwdriver and tightened them as much as they would go. i ground down the ninja mounting clip part with my dremel, which was touching a few capacitors, there is nothing impeding the ninja.
im thinking of getting a different heatsink to see if that is the issue. along with this grease - supposedly a 3c improvement from as5
http://www.crazypc.com/products/50118.html
suggestions comments?
ambient temps are just around 70 degrees F
my case temps are nice. my hard drive temps in speedfan are excellent. i did a good wiring job so that airflow in my p180 is unobstructed.it isnt the prettiest, but it is fairly efficient. there are no wires in the middle of the case where airflow is moving. they are run around the bottom and sides mostly. i also put in a front intake yate loon fan in front of the middle hd bay where one hd resides.
this is my case with my first mobo, the p5n-e sli - but is just as clean with my gigabyte. in fact cleaner since i bought an extension cord for my 4pin mobo power cord and ran it out of the way. it is not across the board as in the pic here.
i have a dremel so i plan on making a few cuts on this case down the road, and wiring everything behind the board. making it virtually wire free in the main part of the case.
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