Got my Q6600 sitting under a Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 with Arctic Silver 5. It's running with Crucial ballistix 1066 at 6400 and an FSB of 333 equalling 3GHz. I ran the new Prime95 that tests more than 1 core for about 25 minutes and CoreTemp was reporting 80C. Is this a normal sort of temp? Motherboard is Asus Maximus, thinking that maybe my Arctic Silver is too thin?
EDIT: Fan on the Ultra is a Scythe S-Flex 1600RPM and case is Antec P182, all fans on Low
Personally I have no experience with quad cores but 80oC is too high in my books. I would be far happier at the 65oC mark.
Probably worth checking the cooler is properly seated and that the fan is actually spinningMay be worth taking the cooler off look at the heat spreader and heatsink if the are any patches without AS5 then you know that was your problem. Clean it all off and reapply and try again
Did you follow Arctic silver's directions on how to apply AS5? A horizontal line for quads allowing the HS to spread it out for you.
I suspect something might be wrong with your heat sink installation. I've just built a new rig around a Q6600 and clocked it to 3Ghz, after 15 minutes of ORTHOS I'm only getting temperates of 36 degrees reported by Speedfan and aBit uGuru.
I don't like the "Heatsink spread it for you" approach.. I did just take it off and there were some "dry" patches on the heatsink, I have applied more and am now running Prime again. 57C we are at atm about 5 minutes in which is alot better as about 5 minutes in we were at 60ishOriginally Posted by Webby
Personally I have no experience with quad cores but 80oC is too high in my books. I would be far happier at the 65oC mark.
Probably worth checking the cooler is properly seated and that the fan is actually spinning
Did you follow Arctic silver's directions on how to apply AS5? A horizontal line for quads allowing the HS to spread it out for you.
Lucio - try installing Core Temp (the latest beta i think its 0.95.4) to monitor your temps as I imagine it will report them to be 15oC higher than Speed fan etc. Its to do with the base line for the thermal diode on the cpu, the newer chips have it at 100oC while the older ones at 85oC and if I understand correctly it doesn't measure a temperature but rather a difference from the baseline hence the inconsistencies.
But still your going to be only at ~50oC rather than 80oC
The easiest way to check is to see what idle temps you get if they are less than ambient then you know its reporting the wrong temperature (assuming you don't have a TEC or phase change cooler).
What you're seeing is the "case temp" of your CPU. As someone has already said, install CoreTemp 0.95.4 and you'll get the temperature of each individual core. They are normally 10-15 degrees hotter than the case temp when under load. Still gonna be a low temperature.
Running 64bit Vista, Core Temp wouldn't load at all thanks to lack of signed drivers. Still, all told tempertures inside this case are as good as they've been reported and I found the zalman thermal grease as piece of cake to apply.What you're seeing is the "case temp" of your CPU. As someone has already said, install CoreTemp 0.95.4 and you'll get the temperature of each individual core. They are normally 10-15 degrees hotter than the case temp when under load. Still gonna be a low temperature.
Tempted to increase the overclock on this chip a bit further, though thus far it doesn't seem to need it
Use Everest then. Speedfan reports about 10C too low. Uguru is even worse in my machine. It reports 15C+ too low.Running 64bit Vista, Core Temp wouldn't load at all thanks to lack of signed drivers. Still, all told tempertures inside this case are as good as they've been reported and I found the zalman thermal grease as piece of cake to apply.
Tempted to increase the overclock on this chip a bit further, though thus far it doesn't seem to need it
Is that just with the new core2duo cpus or all cpus? Certainly never heard of speedfan being 10c off before and I use it.
It's common knowlege that speedfan reports temps usually 10-15c below what they actually are.
I think i may have the answer,
In the BIOS, have you changed the cpu voltage to the lowest voltage and keep increasing until you have reached the lowest stable voltage?
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Speedfan gives me the same temperatures as CoreTemp, Everest, and Intel TAT.
On a C2D.
Hi Lucio, I had the same problem with CoreTemp until I found some instructions on how to get it running under Vista 64. It works great! You do have to run a .bat file to load the driver before running the executable.Running 64bit Vista, Core Temp wouldn't load at all thanks to lack of signed drivers. Still, all told tempertures inside this case are as good as they've been reported and I found the zalman thermal grease as piece of cake to apply.
Tempted to increase the overclock on this chip a bit further, though thus far it doesn't seem to need it
Take a look here on how to get it working:
Getting Coretemp to work in Vista X64! - Erodov, Inc - The Knowledge Vault!
I hope that helps!
Sounds like another case of intel's wonderfully "flat" heat spreader
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