C2D cooling - high temps

englishpremier

englishpremier

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I bunch of kit arrived the other day including an asus p5b and some ddr2 memory.

I knew i should wait until i had found a quality cooler but i just couldn't resist.

I went down to the highstreet and bought the only 775 cooler i could find. An Akaska 955 which i noticed is only rated to cool upto a 3.6ghz P4 (i imagine that the highest rated P4 at the time it was made)

I had seen a few threads with people running these on c2d chips and enjoying distinctly average temps. Around 40c idle to 55c load.

I have put all my kit together and by e6300 immediately booted at 2.6ghz. I installed Vista and everything is fine, but my temps are 52c idle and up to 72c at full load :eek:

I know its not the best cooler but I was in a hurry to get something before the weekend and had seen other people using this on even 6600 and enjoying ok temps.

Any ideas?
 
Well I used to run my Q6600 on the stock cooler @ 3.2ghz, 40c idle 62c load so maybe see if the stock HS is any better

In regards to the current cooler, I would say check that it is monted correctly and that the termal paste looks alright.. you might try remounting it and reapplying thermal paste.. Also give it a good 6 hours turned on this should give everything time to settle down and then check your temps can be quite a difference from when you first build the system and load it to 6 hours later
 
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temps across both cores within 1-2c of each other.

I never had an original cooler and like i said was desperate to get the system up and running. You know how it is when a load of new components arrive ;-)
 
Oh right sorry I didn't read your post properly.

Yeah I know what your mean when new parts arrive :) You just want to get it up and running. Still it should see you right until you get a better cooler.
 
englishpremier said:
temps across both cores within 1-2c of each other.

I never had an original cooler and like i said was desperate to get the system up and running. You know how it is when a load of new components arrive ;-)
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Well i would try resitting the heatsink and see if that makes a difference and also check the quality of the bottom of the heatsink make sure its not convex...
 
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