QX6700 under load temperatures ?

emkay · 5 Dec 2006 at 20:53

I've reseated my zalman 9500 4 times now, best is with antec silver compound but I cant improve on the following temps -

idle - 35 C

with sp2004 -

loading single core - 59 C
loading all quad cores - 70 C

All stock and temps from coretemp.

Do these seem a bit high ? what is the maximum temp for the QX6700 ?

thanks,
Em Kay

FreeStream · 5 Dec 2006 at 21:00

Does seem high but the heat its putting out probably too much for that.

Get a Tuniq Tower 120 tbh

Sniper123 · 5 Dec 2006 at 21:14

I agree with Concorde Rules
Get a Tuniq Tower!!!
With sp2004 both core's at load the highest I got was 50C after 8 hour's :cool:

Just make sure it fit's in your case before you buy it

Mr Mister · 5 Dec 2006 at 21:21

Concorde Rules said:
Does seem high but the heat its putting out probably too much for that.

Get a Tuniq Tower 120 tbh

LOL so you think that intel would sell a cpu that only 1 heatsink can cope with the heat load. These things would be fine with a stock intel cooler.

To the OP - have you got the downwards pressure evenly distributed over the cpu?

emkay · 5 Dec 2006 at 21:37

well it seems quite happy running all 4 cores at maximum @ 70 C

core temp says the tjunction is 100 C so it will not be throttling just yet..

heatsink seems perfectly fitted and level so maybe the tuniq tower is the way forward, what temps are other people seeing with the QX6700 under load ?

Jokester · 5 Dec 2006 at 22:11

I was getting mid 40s (coretemp) with SP2004 at stock speeds on water. At 3.4GHz I was getting mid 60s. CPU is lapped as it wasn't flat.

Jokester

hornytoe · 5 Dec 2006 at 23:21

I've switched from a Big typhoon to a Tuniq Tower as I wasnt happy with the load temps even with a powerful fan. The TT is a bit better 68 to 72 folding on 4 cores and the BT was high 70's to early 80's, as you say though the max temp before throttling is 100c (from what I've read, no concrete results though that I've found) They are a real toasty chip over 25c more at the same clock speeds as my x6800 :eek:

mysticsniper · 6 Dec 2006 at 02:27

Update the BIOS, just in case its giving false readings

FreeStream · 6 Dec 2006 at 08:37

Mr Mister said:
LOL so you think that intel would sell a cpu that only 1 heatsink can cope with the heat load. These things would be fine with a stock intel cooler.

To the OP - have you got the downwards pressure evenly distributed over the cpu?

Do you think any heatsinks out there were actually designed for 4 cores? No, I don't think so. The TT120 is the best at the moment, and if it is because the cooler can't cope then thats as good as he can get apart from water/phase.

gurusan · 6 Dec 2006 at 08:48

The Zalman 9500 is one of the best coolers out there. The Tuniq is better, but there's not that big of a difference.

ChrisJSY · 6 Dec 2006 at 12:45

Sniper123 said:
I agree with Concorde Rules
Get a Tuniq Tower!!!
With sp2004 both core's at load the highest I got was 50C after 8 hour's
Just make sure it fit's in your case before you buy it

Sure, two cores.
He's using quad-core.

Jay_t · 6 Dec 2006 at 12:52

gurusan said:
The Zalman 9500 is one of the best coolers out there. The Tuniq is better, but there's not that big of a difference.

I second that. I bought a Tuniq Tower to see if it was much better than the Zalman 9500. I sent it back after the thumbscrew fell to bits in my hand. :eek:

A near 1kg heatsink hanging over an expensive graphics card with dodgy thumbscrews just wasn't my idea of fun. The lapping on it is terrible too, while you can see your face reflected by the Zalman. Zalman have just bought out a bigger 9700 cooler which must be about on par with the Tuniq Tower for overall cooling without the hassle.

Mr Mister · 6 Dec 2006 at 16:37

Concorde Rules said:
Do you think any heatsinks out there were actually designed for 4 cores? No, I don't think so. The TT120 is the best at the moment, and if it is because the cooler can't cope then thats as good as he can get apart from water/phase.

Doesnt need to be designed for 4 cores. Amd shipped the same hsf's with some dual cores as single cores. So did intel with the pentium d's and now c2d's

Mud · 6 Dec 2006 at 17:24

Mr Mister said:
Doesnt need to be designed for 4 cores. Amd shipped the same hsf's with some dual cores as single cores. So did intel with the pentium d's and now c2d's

The higher X2's have a different heatsink don't they? Ones with cooling pipes for latent cooling. My singlecore 939 heatsink didn't have the heatpipes.

emkay · 6 Dec 2006 at 17:38

I really like the zalman 9500 AT, it did a great job on my old E6600, so I'll probably keep mucking about with it a bit longer yet. I dont really like the look of the Tuniq.

The more I reseach on the internet the more it looks like the QX6700 is quite a toasty chip when all 4 cores are being stressed to the maximum.

I played dark messiah might and magic for a few hours last night and the temp didnt go over 45 C, the fan stayed on its lowest speed of 1400rpm - very quiet ! So looks like the CPU didnt have to do too much work !

Hopefully the heat sink compound will bed in properly over the next few days.

Mr Mister · 6 Dec 2006 at 17:50

Mud said:
The higher X2's have a different heatsink don't they? Ones with cooling pipes for latent cooling. My singlecore 939 heatsink didn't have the heatpipes.

yea, hence:

mr mister said:
some

Mud · 6 Dec 2006 at 17:57

Damn you and your legal jargon

Mr Mister · 6 Dec 2006 at 18:02

Mud said:
Damn you and your legal jargon

Z3R0-CooL · 6 Dec 2006 at 22:21

if u want to get scared use core temp...... u proly end up with like 100C .. lol

kmistry · 6 Dec 2006 at 23:26

emkay said:
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All stock and temps from coretemp.

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He is using coretemp :/