Back with new Mobo, Q6600 Too HOT

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9designs2

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Following on from posts a few weeks ago where I found out my cooking PK5se sucks for over clocking, as threatened I have returned with a Pk5e-Wifi board :D........... ( oh and a 8500 to 8600 GPU upgrade).....

Well for sure it hits 3,0 to 3,2 Gig without much fine tuning the bios.... I will go back a read all the settings in due coarse.

But the Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B is just not man enough.... I have refitted it few times, lightly lapped the base, use AS2, and on stock I'm at about 40deg on idle.... ambient is about 20-22. On load will clear 60 :eek: Using the supplied 120mm fan. In a Antec Sonata III.....
I think the CPU is a strong one, when clocked it hit 80deg, before I killed off prime !!


As here in Italy it's going to get very hot in the summer should I go for a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme or think about water....Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra Watercooling Kit ......Or a Zalaman external Tower cooler ?
Silence is my goal !!!!
My GPU is fanless model, so I don't need to water cooler it for noise reasons.
 
No comments on my cooling dilemma then ? ...
How much better is an ultra 120 over a Ninja Plus ?..... then again against water.... in high ambient temps of summer.
 
That cooler should be fine even with an OC'd quad.

Have you got good case cooling, the HSF can only work if the case contains cool air.

Cleanup and reinstall using a thin film of paste

What speed is the CPU fan spinning at ?

Have you increased the vcore to an excessive level? most Q6600 only need a nudge for 3Ghz +


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Upgrade the Scythe fan, its a totally rubbish fan on there as standard.

I'm using a Sharkoon SE 2000 @ 7-8v this is totally silent and shifts much more air than the stock fan. My Ninja cools my 3.6Ghz Q6600 to 44 C idle and my room is fairly warm.
 
The volts are under 1.3...... remove case side drops temps about 5 degrees.
OK will look for a better fan...currently plugged into mobo, so does about 1100rpm. Until it ramps up....
The Cooler has been refitted a few times, and always same results. I only have some AS 2 compound, but a very thin film was applied with a flat plastic spatula.
 
I have that case with a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme and a p5k and the only way it would fit was to cut the PSU rail out of the case by blowing the rivets out. Good cooler though. I'm at 3.2ghz and under 60'c with prime torture test. But you will have to accept that the sonata isn't a very good case for a hot running PC... it is designed as a quiet case, which it isn't by the time you've stuck a load of reasonable 120mm fans in it :)
 
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