Core Temperature

rubberduck · 19 Jan 2008 at 19:49

Hi

Just installed a Q6600. Everything at stock for the moment

Am running Prime and notice that two of my cores are running much hotter than the other two i.e.

Core 0 = 38
Core 1 = 39
Core 2 = 31
Core 3 = 32

Is this normal? Or could it be the sign of a badly mounted heat sink?

rubberduck · 19 Jan 2008 at 20:16

Those are load temperatures... Stock, so no overclocking at the moment.

rubberduck · 19 Jan 2008 at 22:27

I'm using a lapped thermalright 120 ultra extreme with a scythe s-flex fan. I might see if lapping my cpu help equalise the core temperatures... FYI I use core temp to report my temperatures.

rubberduck · 20 Jan 2008 at 22:58

Pneumonic said:
what is the VID on your CPU?

those are very nice temps though! assume you have a nice low VID CPU so your not having to use much vcore, should get a good clock

Those temps were taken with a stock VID which I think is 1.35 or 1.325.... I lapped my cpu today and my temperatures have hardly changed. Two of the cores are always around 8 degrees C lower than the other two (idle and load) so am not sure if I should believe the readings to be honest.

Anyway I've had a go at overclocking and have manged to easily get 3.6Ghz prime stable. My temps are (idle,load) at 1.5V

Core 0 40,51
Core 1 33,44
Core 2 40,52
Core 3 33,44

Will try lowering the Vcore to see how low I can get it to be stable at. Don't think I will overclock any further as am quite happy with 3.6Ghz and want this cpu to last a couple of years... Am so glad I upgraded from my old AMD X2 3800+