Core 2 Duo E6300 question

[Quronos]

ok...cheers buddy


First dual core, so im kinda worrying a lil too much

 

[GinG]

Yeah they are blowing air out atm. I might just have to change that completely and switch them so that they are the other way around, that way they are blowing cold air into the case and the big fan is sucking air out . And Quronos those temps look good mate, my case is also on the floor so that could also be a problem. I wouldn't reccomend leaving the side panel off though as this can disrupt airflow and cause overheating (had a bad experience with my previous rig )

Yeah you will be surprised how good the cooling changes in the sonata with nice fresh air blowing close to the CPU

Give it a go, 10min job and not much hassle

 

[kmistry]

Lol !! I took out the exhaust case thing (dunno what its called ) and temps are now 46C idle haha. Im going to have a fan blowing cold air into the case so that should be much better. Thanks to all for their help

Kiz

 

[Quronos]

for some reason my idle temp has gone up to 42C

Tried a bit of OCing using the tuning program i got with my board and clocked it to 2.3 before it became unstable.

gonna try in the Bios soon, God knows where ill start cause last time im did some OCing with my AMD, i almost melted the chip. So hopefully If I can make head or tail of the OCing guide I can get 2.5 out of it!

 

[achitophel]

Has anyone managed to get it to 3Ghz or more on aircooling, and managed to keep it quiet, say less than 29 Db?

 

[easyrider]

Has anyone managed to get it to 3Ghz or more on aircooling, and managed to keep it quiet, say less than 29 Db?

Loads of people are running well above 3ghz on silent air.

 

[easyrider]

for some reason my idle temp has gone up to 42C

Tried a bit of OCing using the tuning program i got with my board and clocked it to 2.3 before it became unstable.

gonna try in the Bios soon, God knows where ill start cause last time im did some OCing with my AMD, i almost melted the chip. So hopefully If I can make head or tail of the OCing guide I can get 2.5 out of it!

Stop obsessing about temps.

Anything below 60c is fine.

Idle temps are irrelevant.

Its the load temps that count.

 

[achitophel]

Loads of people are running well above 3ghz on silent air.

That's BRILLIANT news - thanks for that; I'm definitely going 6300 then, with an upgrade later to Kentsfield

 

[Darg]

6300 has been brought up to 3.3Ghz on air with stock volts. For extra stability you may want to try one of the pretty simple volt mods to crank it up to 1.45 or 1.5V. It will increase temps but be more stable.

To achieve those kind of overclocks though you really need a good Asus or GB board.

 

[Stan_Lite]

I'd be more inclined to trust core temp than anything else

Why?

Always go by the CoreTemp readings. They are the temperature your chip is truly at.

How do you know this for certain?

I'm not trying to be argumentative here but I have asked this question before and have never had a satisfactory answer as to how people can be certain that core temp is more accurate than other temperature monitoring software.

Can someone please enlighten me?

Stan