Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
what do you call heat? I idle at 48c load 59c with the arctic 7 cooler. I have lapped the CPu but didnt make much difference. I have never fancied water so I too am waiting for the magic cooler - maybe one from Cebit 2007. There were some very interesting HSFs from Akasa - closed loop liquid and OCZ -suck blow prototype on show there plus others from the major players. There may be hope!
Right but I'm using a QX6700 which is double the heat production of a E6700. I'm using an Titan Amanda TEC cooler for the time being and have applied the vdroop pencil mod which allows me to run at 3GHz (9x333) at only 1.25V. This keeps my load temp (4x Prime95) at 54C and idle temps as low as 25C.

Since Asus hasn't fixed the cpu multiplier bug forcing even extreme cpu owners to use only 6-10 multipliers, I can't run it at 3.2GHz at 1066FSB hence have settled for the time being at 9x333.

All this in a coolermaster wavemaster case which aren't the best for air circulation. I have however used a Scythe 120mm fan bracket to install a 120mm suction fan on the front and a plastic tunnel to divert air over the cpu area.