Q6600 temps. What is ok?

[Trash Man]

Just installed my new Q6600 with a Ultra 120 and s/flex 1600rpm.

Using coretemp, idle temps are 36c-32c depending on the core. load temps are 60c-57c. Is this ok. It's not all that warm today and I'm thinking in the summing that those temps will rise a little to much for my liking.

I'm not all that happy with the cooling in my case at the moment. I used to have a side 120mm blowhole, but due the huge size of the Ultra120 I can't fit the side of the case on with the fan attached. So at the moment it leaves me with 1 80mm papst fan as an intake.

Entire cooling is
1 80mm papst at the front
1 80mm papst rear outlet
1 92mm papst top outlet
120mm s/flex on the HS

Although the system is now near on silent, I don't think it's going to be enough in the summer.

Any thoughts?

[acrobat]

Those temps seem ok to me, although I'm not 100% sure what the temps are supposed to be with that chip. I'd be surprised if those temps are bad though. The idle temp looks really good to me, and although the load temp seems fairly high, its miles off being "too high" (i think). Im basing that off the fact that I have a dual core and the temps are very similar to yours - and yet you have double the amount of cores.

Is the CPU fan set to speed up when it gets hotter in your bios? Mine is silent and slow when idle, but if it ever gets stressed, the bios speeds the fan up.

Something you could do, is check the temp of your hard disks and motherboard/chipset. The temp of those would help tell you how well the case fans are doing. If those temps are a bit high, you could think about getting a fan controller, and then turn up the speed of your case fans until they are faster but still not too noisy.

The obvious question whenever anyone mentions temperatures too, is to check that the heatsink is seated properly. Its the fiddlyest thing ever.. so it may look like its seated properly, and yet one corner may not actually be pressed down all the way. And then theres the thermal compound - too thick - too thin - etc.

[Clunk]

Is the cpu running at stock speeds?

An easy way to find out if your case airflow isnt doing the job is to take the side of the case off, and blow a desk fan in there. make a note of before and after temps, and if they are significantly different, you just need better airflow.

Edit: and get a bolt thru kit for that cooler, they are only a fiver and can work wonders.

[acrobat]

Mmmmm.... bolt... thru.... kits

I want one bad, but they are outta stock on Kustompcs.

[Clunk]

Seems to be out of stock everywhere, says 3 days at tekheads.

[Trash Man]

Those temps seem ok to me, although I'm not 100% sure what the temps are supposed to be with that chip. I'd be surprised if those temps are bad though. The idle temp looks really good to me, and although the load temp seems fairly high, its miles off being "too high" (i think). Im basing that off the fact that I have a dual core and the temps are very similar to yours - and yet you have double the amount of cores.

Is the CPU fan set to speed up when it gets hotter in your bios? Mine is silent and slow when idle, but if it ever gets stressed, the bios speeds the fan up.

Something you could do, is check the temp of your hard disks and motherboard/chipset. The temp of those would help tell you how well the case fans are doing. If those temps are a bit high, you could think about getting a fan controller, and then turn up the speed of your case fans until they are faster but still not too noisy.

The obvious question whenever anyone mentions temperatures too, is to check that the heatsink is seated properly. Its the fiddlyest thing ever.. so it may look like its seated properly, and yet one corner may not actually be pressed down all the way. And then theres the thermal compound - too thick - too thin - etc.

Thanks for the reply

All the fans I have are running at 100% all the time, I guess it's not good to make a 1600 rpm fan run any faster than it's supposed to.

Can you recommed a programme for getting the hdd and chipset temps please?

As for the HS, I spent quite a while making sure it was on properly.

Thanks for any help

[Trash Man]

Is the cpu running at stock speeds?

An easy way to find out if your case airflow isnt doing the job is to take the side of the case off, and blow a desk fan in there. make a note of before and after temps, and if they are significantly different, you just need better airflow.

Edit: and get a bolt thru kit for that cooler, they are only a fiver and can work wonders.

Yup running at stock. I'll try the side of the case off thing in a bit and what are bolt thru kits?

Thanks again

[Clunk]

This is a bolt thru kit.

When you fit a cooler to 775 boards, they bend out of shape, some worse than others, and often, your cpu isnt sat propely flush to the heatsink becuase of the bent board. The bolt thru kit keeps the board much flatter. Well worth the fiver, even if it doesnt make much difference, its something you can rule out in future.

[Trash Man]

Thanks for the link

Sorry for all the questions But to me that boltthru kit looks just like the clamp that came with the HS I have. Is there any difference?

[Clunk]

Did your heatsink come with an X shaped plate that goes at the back of your motherboard? If so, then you dont need it.

[Clunk]

I just noticed as well that its a Q6600 and not an E6600, those temps are fine.

If you do have the back plate, you can tweak the temps by loading coretemp, putting the cpu under load (all 4 of them) and then adjusting the screws that hold the heatsink down. As you adjust them, you will see each core temp rise and fall.

[Trash Man]

Yea it came with a backplate and screws just like in that picture.

I might get a more powerful fan for the hs, something that pushes a little more air.

Thanks for the tip on adjusting the screws, will give that a go as well.

[graysky]

@trashman -- your temps seem a little on the high-side for a stock 9x266 Q6600 to me with your cooling setup. To give you an idea my slightly o/c'ed (9x333) load Q6600 temps (averaged over 1 h) with the same Ultra-120 Extreme and the same fan you have on your machine were:

Core 0: 51.9
Core 1: 51.4
Core 2: 45.6
Core 3: 45.6

I have since dropped them by lapping the HS and also lapping the IHS on the CPU itself. If you're worried about how high they might go once the summer heats up your room, I just posted the results from an experiment I did looking at average load temps and different room temps in this thread. To sum it up, for every 1 °C the room temp. changes, the load CPU temps should change by about 2 °C. It doesn't take too long before they can get into the hot zone at that 2:1 rate unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

[Clunk]

@trashman -- your temps seem a little on the high-side for a stock 9x266 Q6600 to me with your cooling setup. To give you an idea my slightly o/c'ed (9x333) load Q6600 temps (averaged over 1 h) with the same Ultra-120 Extreme and the same fan you have on your machine were:

Core 0: 51.9
Core 1: 51.4
Core 2: 45.6
Core 3: 45.6

I have since dropped them by lapping the HS and also lapping the IHS on the CPU itself. If you're worried about how high they might go once the summer heats up your room, I just posted the results from an experiment I did looking at average load temps and different room temps in this thread. To sum it up, for every 1 °C the room temp. changes, the load CPU temps should change by about 2 °C. It doesn't take too long before they can get into the hot zone at that 2:1 rate unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

I would be interested to see a screenshot of those temps in coretemp of your rig running say 5 hours of dual orthos or 4 x sp2004, and also something to indicate the ambient room temp as well. If you have already posted them I must have missed them

[graysky]

I don't have a screenshot, but I do have the cvs log files speedfan generates; as you discovered in this thread, you can simply add 15 to the speedfan numbers to get the tjunction temps (or add 15 to the data I presented above for that matter). Speedfan does allow you to adjust the numbers it displays by a constant, I just haven't ever messed with it.

BTW, coretemp doesn't run on my machine. It reboots it after it launches. I emailed the author about it, be he hasn't contacted me. As I understand it, this is a known issue under investigation.

[Clunk]

BTW, coretemp doesn't run on my machine. It reboots it after it launches. I emailed the author about it, be he hasn't contacted me. As I understand it, this is a known issue under investigation.

I remember now, yours wont run coretemp, but itll run orthos, and the opposite for me.