6300 Temperature query

ben_moore34 · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:28

Hello

Had my Core 2 Duo 6300 & DS3 set up for about a year now & have decided to overclock it slightly.
I got hold of INTEL TAT for temperature monitoring & found that on idle my presently un-overclocked readings are

CPU0 CPU1
60 C 58 C

under load of 100%

CPU0 CPU1
68 C 65 C

This is using stock components, cooler etc.
All I have done so far is to set my fan mode to Legacy in the bios
Case is ANTEC Sonata

These readings look higher than I expected. Is it recommended that I get a different cooler before I attempt anything?
Does ambient room temperature have much of a bearing on these results too, it is fairly warm in the house with the central heating on?

Many thanks in advance

schumi84 · 26 Oct 2007 at 10:40

I would say those temps are rather high, even on the o'c in my sig, my temps only get to 55 degrees at load. Ok this is with a Scythe Ninja but even with the stock hsf you should only be hitting the 40s at idle.

In the BIOS try setting the fan control speed to PWM, see if it makes a difference, though i dont know how loud the stock hsf gets when at higher rpm.

Andeh · 26 Oct 2007 at 10:46

disable the fan control speed in the bios, this make the fan run full speed 100% of the time.

mine is overclocked to 2.8ghz (400x7 @ 1.275v) at the moment (any higher and I can't manually set the SPD on my GeIL memory) mine idl'es at 55-58 and 68-72 full load. Thats with stock cooling too.

ben_moore34 · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:05

Thanks for the quick replies

Have tried those fan settings in the BIOS.
It's made some difference, I'm now getting
63C & 60C under 100% load and
55C & 54C idle

Would it be advisable to remove the heatsink & reseat it?
From what I remember when I made the computer a year or so ago I didn't use any heat paste, just a little pad that came with the CPU.

Cheers
Ben

deuse · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:10

I got a 6300 on a P35-DS4 and my temps with a Scythe Ninja(from OCUK)
25c idle and 32c load using tat.

Its running at 2.4ghz at 1.05V this is the reason it is so cool.

Hope this helps

schumi84 · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:36

Only reseat the CPU if you have some other thermal compound you can use (Arctic Silver, or MX1).
Then you can clean off all the old stuff (the pad would have gone to a sort of thick liquid) with some Isopropyl Alcohol (i find works best) then reapply the new compound.

Andeh · 26 Oct 2007 at 18:55

yeah, simply reseating it, most likely wont make a difference to the temp, unless you have some better compound to apply, in which case you might only see a couple degrees drop in temps.

On the same, if, for instance, I had some AS5 compound lying around, would it be a good idea to clean off the standard compound on the stock cooler, and put some AS5 on instead?
Or is it best to just leave it? I wouldn't expect my temps to drop much, if any.