the big mugen 2 just wouldn't heat up... i finally had to unplug all of the case fans, even tho the side was off of the case the entire time.
then when it finally went off, i thought that the computer was going to burn up!
this feels like it's not something that should be used with those foxconn 1156 cpu sockets that were melting while being overclocked.what happens is that you essentially run the cpu at the very limit of it's thermal capacity; it's a place that i've never been to before, and i've been working on pc's since the mid '80's or so... watching the cpu burn itself up, yet never shut down, is mind-boggling... i still don't understand why the computer never locked up or blue-screened, considering that it does that all the time, at much lower temps, during regular overclocking tests.
my suggestions for installing this stuff is to first calibrate realtemp at idle, then install both realtemp and speedfan in your startup group, because the minute that the pc boots up, it'll be smoking at ~90 degrees or so...
1) you need to see the temp graphs in speedfan, per the instructions.
2) this will give you a chance to see if the tjmax readings in realtemp are really and truly properly calibrated.
imho, it's only worth the hassle for extreme overclocking, when your hardware is at the limits... between the indigo and some fan ducting, i probably gained 4-6 degrees of cooling? i went from 4ghz stable to 4.2ghz, more or less stable, with the p183 case closed up... i7 920, msi x58m motherboard.
