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lucifersam said:
you dont just want the area where the core is covered it all needs to be covered to allow greater surface area for heat dissipation
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No, you need just the core (if P4 & A64) covered because...
Thermal grease's primary purpose in electronics is to mediate small surface imperfections between an integrated circuit (also known as a chip) and a heat sink. When applied in appropriate quantities, it fills the tiny pits and grooves — particularly on today's CPUs — thereby increasing the amount of surface-to-surface contact with the CPU die. Without thermal grease aiding the heat sink, CPU power dissipation overheating can occur and will generate logic errors as the heat raises electrical resistance on the multi-nanometer wide circuits.
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Well I got in from work @ about 1am, 5 hours later after pulling my system apart twice to reapply heatsink compound (AS5), the temps are pretty much the same :( , I tried blob in the middle again and also covering the whole IHS with a fin layer.

Devious said:
Well you shouldnt be hitting those temps at stock volts even with the stock cooler i would say. Not sure whether the Ninja would make 'that' much of a difference as that scythe mine is supposed to be good
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well I'm pretty much at a loss then if thats the case, I got used to my prescott temps so I guess I'll have to get used to these, I just hope it copes with the heat as well as my old prescott did, that thing was a rock no matter what the temparature.
 
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Journey said:
ES = Engineering Sample. These are sent out by Intel prior to realesing the actual CPU's for sale in the retail market so that mobo makers etc can test them.

ES are no better than Retail, other than sometimes having an unlocked multi.
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ES chips so far have clocked quite well, the E6600 ES were rumoured NOT to be speed binned, atm we are waiting for retail non ES stepping 6 to see if they can clock as well as the stepping 5 ES.

In the next few weeks we will know if the ES were cherry picked.

regards
Raja
 
lowrider007 said:
Well I got in from work @ about 1am, 5 hours later after pulling my system apart twice to reapply heatsink compound (AS5), the temps are pretty much the same :( , I tried blob in the middle again and also covering the whole IHS with a fin layer.




well I'm pretty much at a loss then if thats the case, I got used to my prescott temps so I guess I'll have to get used to these, I just hope it copes with the heat as well as my old prescott did, that thing was a rock no matter what the temparature.
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these cpu's run hot even on water, @ 1.39v vcore, idle is around 35-40 depending on ambient, with the recent weather idle has been as high as 46. This is with Storm, Pa120.3 and D5. Other users are reporting the same, it's not suprisisng you are getting that high temps on air. E6600 stepping 5 rev B1
 
Easiest way to apply AS i find is to use medical latex gloves - makes it very easy to spread and should be clean from dust..etc. On the semperon downstairs its never gone higher than 45C and it only has a zalman on lowest speed as the only case fan (in an antec aria cube).

Stelly, did you change MB? I thought you were going bad axe? Why the change?
 
So the C2D cpus are gonna be running hot? wtf? I heard these chips used less volts so they were a lot cooler?
 
Jimbo said:
So the C2D cpus are gonna be running hot? wtf? I heard these chips used less volts so they were a lot cooler?
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overclocking them by 1.2ghz and raising the vcore tends to make them hotter than stock lol :p
 
even high end water will get you into the fifties (full load) with 20 deg ambient and around 1.4v on the core.
 
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get on cracking with it Stelly, best of luck.
 
easyrider said:
overclocking them by 1.2ghz and raising the vcore tends to make them hotter than stock lol :p
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Ah thats ok then lol. :p

Was thinking about stock. I myself am gonna clock mine E6600 hopefully to 3ghz on air, using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler for cooling and G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400.

Not sure about the motherboard yet, but it could be a Gigabyte. ;)
 
Rightio windows XP is installed and everything is working ok...

I got a new motherboard and when using the gigabyte motherboard you have to make sure that you use the red slots (2 and 4) or it will not start and keep restarting...

The DS4 has a few issues with RAID that need to be sorted though, not sure that I would totally recommend the board

Stelly
 
Does this mean your not running in dual channel stelly? I know Gigabyte are fine tuning the bioses quite a bit for these mobos, so hopefully they will improve.

Shame I was fancying a Gigabyte board, lets see how it clocks.
 
Jimbo said:
Does this mean your not running in dual channel stelly? I know Gigabyte are fine tuning the bioses quite a bit for these mobos, so hopefully they will improve.

Shame I was fancying a Gigabyte board, lets see how it clocks.
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Yes its running dual channel

My main gripe and the main problem is that the RAID is messed totally up... you can select it in the BIOS, and also when you have BOTH raid (gigabyte and intel) running you cant use the BIOS without having to rest the BIOS to turn the RAID off because it skips the post screen some how...

Stelly
 
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Stelly said:
Yes its running dual channel

My main gripe and the main problem is that the RAID is messed totally up... you can select it in the BIOS, and also when you have BOTH raid (gigabyte and intel) running you cant use the BIOS without having to rest the BIOS to turn the RAID off because it skips the post screen some how...

Stelly
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what graphics card are you using?
 
Byron said:
what happened to the bad axe?
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My brother put it in for me, little **** didnt take his time took the motherboard out and there is a BIG scratch on the bottom... its true knackered

Stelly
 
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