tuniq tower bent?

[hox]

Hi, I recently purchased a tuniq t-120 tower from newegg. Mounting it the copper plate is flush to the cpu, but the tower portion of where the fan/cooling fins are appears to be bent, like the heat pipes on 1 side are longer than the heat pipes on the other side of the tower. Is this normal? I emailed tuniq and have not received a response.

One other question the t-120 is not functioning as well as my zalman 9700 using the same parts, the Zalman kept my QX6700 at 31C idle and the tuniq is running at 40C idle. Given the reviews I have read of the tuniq this seems odd to me. The zalman fan runs at 2600-2800 rpm whereas the tuniq fan barely hits 2000 rpm. I suspect the tuniq fan is not moving as much air but since everyone else is using the same stock tuniq fan I am not sure if the fan is the issue or that this particular heat sink is not working correctly. I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

Finally, If it is just the fan, I was thinking about getting a silverstone 120x 25 mm fan which has a max cfm of 100+. The issue is that I will have to modify the fan's power as it has a 2 pin power molex, and a second molex for rpm sensing. It should be fairly easy to cut the wires to this fan, and a standard three pin molex to it. I am concerned though because placing some fans directly to the motherboard/cpu fan posts can harm the board as they draw way too much current.

Any thoughts regarding this fan swap?

Thanks

Scott

 

[SparkyJJO]

idle is not the temperature to go by. Load temps is what matters.

 

[hox]

@ sparky,

You are right. Load temps should be shown.

I updated my tuniq fan for a thermaltake smart fan II,

Temps running 4 simultaneous sessions of superpi to 4m digits, both cores were at 100%,
Temps were b/w 48 and 50 degrees celsius. When the applicatoins finished core temps dropped to 36C. I suspect this is a reasonable result for a mid tower case using a kentsfiled qx6700 and 7 hard drives. Any thoughts?

 

[orion23]

Sounds pretty good to me...

If you don't mind...The P5WDG2 WS Pro supports the Quads OK?

are you running Vista by the way? (I have a missing SATA controller driver in the Device Manager and don't really know what driver I need)

 

[hox]

I am not running vista. The MB supports a quad cpu fine, it suffers from the same problem all other 975 and 680i boards have with the quad cpu regarding the fsb. I got mine up to 305 mhz and then it became unstable. I had a similar missing driver, I loaded the marvel driver from the asus cd and it went away.