Cooling a 6600 Quad

tot brill · 1 Aug 2007 at 13:03

Hi I'm putting a system together that has a 6600 quad core and would like a recommendation for a fan or other based cooler which will allow a certain amount of overclocking should I go that way. At the moment I'm quite happy to run at stock, but would prefer too keep the chip as cool as possible.

I'm willing to spend up to £40 for a cooler. The system will have a gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard and 8800GTX card.

Are zalmans OK?

digitaldreams · 1 Aug 2007 at 14:13

I have the QX6850 running under a Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium Super Aero Flower Cooler....Artic Silver 5, thin/even smear all over the processor plate.

When the CPU is busy playing games, the temps don't go above 38 DegC !!. The fan hardly makes a sound.

Beware this type of cooler though, it does not create a draught down to the motherboard and may not cool your regulators & Northbridge at all.... (I have a fan on my Northbridge which is linked via heatpipe to the regulators).

Regards

Barry1337 · 1 Aug 2007 at 21:13

Thats Realy Cool Temps!

Thebug · 1 Aug 2007 at 21:18

digitaldreams said:
I have the QX6850 running under a Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium Super Aero Flower Cooler....Artic Silver 5, thin/even smear all over the processor plate.

When the CPU is busy playing games, the temps don't go above 38 DegC !!. The fan hardly makes a sound.

Beware this type of cooler though, it does not create a draught down to the motherboard and may not cool your regulators & Northbridge at all.... (I have a fan on my Northbridge which is linked via heatpipe to the regulators).

Regards

thats very cool for a quad - screenie please

Kingy1968 · 1 Aug 2007 at 22:04

Yea post a screenshot

Coolasmoo · 1 Aug 2007 at 22:37

38c load on air

Screenshot please

Van Diemen · 1 Aug 2007 at 23:33

digitaldreams said:
I have the QX6850 running under a Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium Super Aero Flower Cooler....Artic Silver 5, thin/even smear all over the processor plate.

When the CPU is busy playing games, the temps don't go above 38 DegC !!. The fan hardly makes a sound.

Beware this type of cooler though, it does not create a draught down to the motherboard and may not cool your regulators & Northbridge at all.... (I have a fan on my Northbridge which is linked via heatpipe to the regulators).

Regards

How are you measuring temps? Try CoreTemp

I can just about get 38 in idle,

Garyj881 · 1 Aug 2007 at 23:40

Depends on the game and by time hes com out of it and looke at the temps they would have obviously dropped.

dC2006 · 1 Aug 2007 at 23:46

Get yourself a Thermalright 120 Extreme cooler with a decent fan. Before this cooler I was using a Scythe Ninja with which I could only overclock to 3 ghz and load temps were hitting the high 70`s. With the 120 Extreme I can do 3.6ghz idle temps are 49c and load does not exceed 71c.

RC21 · 2 Aug 2007 at 00:53

dC2006 said:
Get yourself a Thermalright 120 Extreme cooler with a decent fan. Before this cooler I was using a Scythe Ninja with which I could only overclock to 3 ghz and load temps were hitting the high 70`s. With the 120 Extreme I can do 3.6ghz idle temps are 49c and load does not exceed 71c.

Did you have to smooth out the base of your extreme?

Kingy1968 · 2 Aug 2007 at 01:30

RC21 said:
Did you have to smooth out the base of your extreme?

Yea mine was really really bad as well..... Its was convexed

My temps still arnt very good with it

Van Diemen · 2 Aug 2007 at 01:39

The base of the extreme is very bad in most cases, I had to lap mine, also lapped the CPU, Idle temps are down by a bit, but load temps are down quite a lot.

azteched · 2 Aug 2007 at 02:01

Garyj881 said:
Depends on the game and by time hes com out of it and looke at the temps they would have obviously dropped.

Indeed..CoreTemp-measured temps plummet as soon as the load comes off - if I alt tab out of a game and run CoreTemp, it's @ low 40s (at stock currently).

Idle is ~40 btw - on Tuniq tower.

Sarduk · 2 Aug 2007 at 02:15

Van Diemen said:
The base of the extreme is very bad in most cases, I had to lap mine, also lapped the CPU, Idle temps are down by a bit, but load temps are down quite a lot.

Mine isn't convex at all and appears shiny and smooth. Items reflect in it, but appear quite blurred. Is this good enough?

Thebug · 2 Aug 2007 at 06:18

lapped my ultra 120 and q6600 and now it idles at 40, it was 48 before i lapped.

dC2006 · 2 Aug 2007 at 08:50

Yes I had lap my cooler also, used wet and dry 300, 800, 1200 paper.

PaulStat · 2 Aug 2007 at 09:11

define:

lapped

processor plate

ih8modem · 2 Aug 2007 at 09:53

PaulStat said:
define:

lapped

processor plate

lapped - they ground down the surface of the Heatsink where it makes contact with the CPU. The surface of the CPU they have referred to as the processor plate.

some heatsinks are not 100% flat, they have a slight indentation which allows for air to get in there and the heat from the CPU cannot be conducted away as efficiently as when it makes 100% flat contact.

Obviously 100% is not really achievable, and thats what conductive thermal paste is used for, to assist in taking the heat off the CPU and onto the HS, where it is whisked away for cooling in the fins/heatpipes.

MumboJumbo · 2 Aug 2007 at 16:16

do you just use sand paper?

Talrinys · 2 Aug 2007 at 16:35

I'm gonna ask the same question, how to make it better, will have a Tuniq Tower coming in tommorow and any chance to push some extra degrees through it would be wonderful?