Is this too high

[AndrewJ]

My idle temp on my Q6600 is about 42c, after 3/4hour Crysis it hits about 57c, this is with a 3.2GHZ OC.

Is this borderline or too high and I should drop to 3.0?

Stock Intel Cooler by the way.

[Craig321]

Sounds fine, especially for a stock cooler. I wouldn't worry about those temperatures.

Just set a threshold of around 70oC in your motherboard, the computer will then shut down, or beep at you if the temperatures get that high.

[AndrewJ]

I have beep at 67c and shutdown at 70c yeah, I think Biscuit from here told me about that.

I do have plans for a nice new cooler.

[Craig321]

Get a nice Scythe Ninja + Rev. B or similar

See the second reply of this thread: AnandTech - MAX temp for Q6600? - he lists the official 'maximum' temperature for your CPU.

[AndrewJ]

It's dropped to 40c now I turned down the damn radiators in my lounge...

Thanks guys glad I bought this Antec 900 now, may be a dust magnet but cools well

[Jay]

what are you using to read those temps?

[AndrewJ]

CoreTemp.

[Jay]

yer, thats fine then.

[AndrewJ]

Sweet, I think 3.2GHZ will be my max then until I sort a better cooler out, I have one being lapped just waiting on being final offered to me.