Core 2 Duo temps question

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I'm about to make the move to an E6420 and having been off the cooling/clocking circuit for rather a long time I have NO idea what temps to expect from this chip, or even it's max tolerated temp.

Add to this an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and the intention to overclock...

Read plenty of reviews for this cooler but most seem to be using older Pentiums on their testbed.

Just interested in how far I can push this sort of chip on this cooler, and any other info I can get :)
 
I got an E6600 and an AC7 Pro, my temps are around 38c idle and 52c under load, overclocked to 3GHz atm. Anything under 60c under load is fine.
 
But don't beat yourself up if your temps are over 60c load is what I'd add...

These chips can run quite happily a lot hotter than 60c. They don't even start to throttle until in the 80s.

Nothing your pc does day to day will stress it like Orthos etc etc, so you'll get nowhere near max load most of the time.
 
joseph67 said:
I am running an E6600 @ 3.5ghz (395/1:1/4-4-4-12/1.43v) 24/7 max temp under load is 62c, using an ACF7 cooler and Antec 900 case
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naiiiiiiiiiiice, got same chip, cooler and case, i've never been able to get 3.5GHz completly stable, i thinks its my RAM, dont suppose you mind telling me what RAM and volts you used can you? thanks.
 
truebluecfc said:
naiiiiiiiiiiice, got same chip, cooler and case, i've never been able to get 3.5GHz completly stable, i thinks its my RAM, dont suppose you mind telling me what RAM and volts you used can you? thanks.
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Sure, no problem.

Ram used is 2 GB (2x1GB) Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX, Voltage is set to 2.1v

If it makes any difference I am using the Abit Aw9D Max Mobo
 
My idle temps and voltages as reported by Everest:


Temperatures
Motherboard 31 °C (88 °F)
CPU 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 35 °C (95 °F)
PWM1 40 °C (104 °F)
PWM2 34 °C (93 °F)
PWM3 39 °C (102 °F)
PWM4 33 °C (91 °F)
GPU 52 °C (126 °F)
GPU Diode 55 °C (131 °F)
GPU Ambient 43 °C (109 °F)
WDC WD5000AAKS-22TMA0 30 °C (86 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 2700 RPM
Aux3 2460 RPM
GPU 1528 RPM (60%)

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.44 V
+1.5 V 1.65 V
+2.5 V 2.60 V
+3.3 V 3.42 V
+5 V 5.34 V
+12 V 12.36 V
+12 V 4-pin 12.30 V
+5 V Standby 5.37 V
VTT 1.24 V
South Bridge Core 1.04 V
DIMM 2.16 V
DIMM VTT 1.08 V
GPU Vcc 3.29 V
 
It's only at 2.8ghz due to my ram and it has always run fairly cool. Only ever hit 45c with a freezer 7 pro :)

Edit:

e6300, stock volts, 2.8ghz and the latest version of coretemp (0.95)
 
I wish I could afford a better motherboard and RAM though... it quite happily did 2.8ghz with the voltage set to 1.15v using CrystalCPUID so it seems to have loads of potential :(
 
Raikiri said:
I wish I could afford a better motherboard and RAM though... it quite happily did 2.8ghz with the voltage set to 1.15v using CrystalCPUID so it seems to have loads of potential :(
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Plenty of cheap Mobo's around that run RAM unlinked, £70 could have that chip at 3.5ghz
 
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