Temperatures were taken from a thermal probe connected to a Lian-Li
T-3B LCD thermometer. Idle temperatures were
achieved by powering the machine from a cold start and letting idle
for 30 minutes with no active applications or extra services running.
Load temperatures were achieved by running Folding@Home for
a minimum of 1 hour. Measurements were taken 3 different times,
powering the machine down for at least 15 minutes between tests,
and averaged together (rounded to nearest degree). Ambient temperature
of the room was measured at approximately 20oC.
Temperatures
from both systems will be recorded from an overclocked environment.
Being that we know the stock solutions suffice for a clean, non-overclocked
install, I figured it’d be best to see what happens in an environment
that the product is geared towards. Since we’ll be comparing the
Microcool to the MCX159 on the AMD setup, we’ll be using the same
overclock settings of 212 FSB x 10 @ 1.7V. On the Intel side, the
P4 will be running at 265 FSB x 12 @ 1.575V. In both instances,
Arctic Silver 3 was used as the thermal grease.
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