CPU Temps

[Thorsson]

My BIOS won't let me go below stock. Maybe yours will, but you may find that you get instabilities.

[V|per]

Don't have an E6300, but 1.296v at stock seems a tad high to me, probably explaining why your idle temp is a little high. If it's on Auto then the draw may well increase under load.

Stock voltage for most of the e6xxx range was generally 1.3v to 1.35v...

Also, i spread my thermal paste (MX-2.. it's better than AS5...) differently still..

Method for unlapped heatsinks/cpu's: Bit of clingfilm over the finger, and smear all over the IHS (nice and thin) jobs done.

Method for lapped heatsinks AND cpu's (both have to be lapped for this to work properly): As above, clingfilm method, on both the cpu and the heatsink, then use a razorblade to scrape it from both surfaces... looks like you have very VERY little paste on. Dropped my temps by a further 4°c doing it that way on lapped surfaces (in an ideal world, we would be able to lap to 100% flat on both the IHS and Heatsink, in which case, no paste would be needed at all, but alas, one would need a pretty powerfull machine to lap that accurately...)

[KalC]

Stock voltage for most of the e6xxx range was generally 1.3v to 1.35v...

Also, i spread my thermal paste (MX-2.. it's better than AS5...) differently still..

Method for unlapped heatsinks/cpu's: Bit of clingfilm over the finger, and smear all over the IHS (nice and thin) jobs done.

Method for lapped heatsinks AND cpu's (both have to be lapped for this to work properly): As above, clingfilm method, on both the cpu and the heatsink, then use a razorblade to scrape it from both surfaces... looks like you have very VERY little paste on. Dropped my temps by a further 4°c doing it that way on lapped surfaces (in an ideal world, we would be able to lap to 100% flat on both the IHS and Heatsink, in which case, no paste would be needed at all, but alas, one would need a pretty powerfull machine to lap that accurately...)

When spreading the AS5 I too used a bit of clingfilm over the finger to spread the AS5 paste, but for some reason I would always end up with more of the paste on the clingfilm then on the cpu! seemed as though the clingfilm done a good job at removing it rather then actually spreading it

So after struggling with the clingfilm I had to revert to using an old library card (never went to the library much anyway lol) to spread the paste all over the cpu, which done the job nicely have to say

And also, i lowered the voltage on the cpu by a few notches to 1.225V through bios (although cpu-z is reporting 1.184) in attempt for cooler temps as thorsson stated my vcore was a bit high. It seems to be ok, hasn't hanged on me yet everything seems stable, just wanted to know if there was anyway to test this? would running orthos give me an idea? and one last thing, does undervolting a cpu cause any harm? Im pretty sure it doesn't but if anyone wants to put me right then please do so

[Thorsson]

No it doesn't, and running Orthos will be a good test (of temp also).

[Bugbait]

No it doesn't, and running Orthos will be a good test (of temp also).

I second that. Any major instabilities should result in an Orthos failure within the first 60 minutes (if not the first 15). After 3 hours you're pretty good but for the true test you should run it for 24+ hours to get the "rock stable" claim.