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Originally posted by Colt:
This is totally wrong. My classic Athlon wont boot at 1020MHz with water cooling but add the pelts, well look at my sig. The more you overclock your chip the more sensitive the chip is to heat, why do you think people are going for extreme cooling?
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When the computer first boots, the CPU's temp is the same as the ambient. If heat is a limiting factor, it will only become obvious within a number of minutes or hours, when the CPU's temp climbs. Extreme cooling takes care of the extra heat produced by extreme overclocking that makes it past the boot, but creates lots of heat.
I can't really explain your results, but I don't find it logical that different types of cooling make any difference in the first seconds after powering on, since all the components are cool.