CPU Temperatures

Leitchy

Leitchy

Leitchy

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Hello,

Just bought and installed a Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler to cool my not yet overclocked 6600 though I have a small question about the temperatures to go by.

I left my computer on last night after installing the new heatsink, to wake up this morning with the ASUS AI SUite and SPeedfan saying my CPU was at 70 degree's (I was using 1000 rpm to keep the sound down whilst sleeping) though the program "Core Temp Beta" was reporting that the cores were at 22 degree's?

So which temperature should I go by?
 
An interesting point... on a related note that's the safest MAX core temperature for Conroe's ?

Dave
 
Eek - wonder what I'm doing wrong then. Have a Zalman 7700Cu with silver compound. With the fan at full pelt it levels out at 65C under prime95 torture test....

E6300 @ 340x7, auto voltages, DS3.
 
I use Intel TAT. Shows Idle at 42 Degrees load at 53 Degrees, thats O/C to 2.7ghz on a Tuniq at the moment. Im certain i read that they were good upto 85 Degrees, no way would i push it that high though. Think it would melt.
But definately use Intel Thermal Analysis Tool for C2D chips.
 
lol, well ****.... with intel TAT after about 1 minute of 100% workload level, CPU0 was at 80C and CPU1 at 79C.

Why the hell is my Allendale running so hot?!?! :(

Dave

*Star out the swearing please -J*
 
Its that high on stock? sounds like your heatsink isn't connected right. Did you use arctic silver? or just leave the stock paste on the bottom of the heatsink?
 
Umm, not quite stock ;)

340x7 so 2.38GHz from the standard 1.83GHz, but I'm using a Zalman 7700Cu with silver thermal compound (unfortunately couldn't get AS5 but similar stuff).

I'm *fairly* sure it's making good contact too.... :/

Dave
 
Core temp of 65 degrees under full load is considered 'normal', 70 warm, 75 hot. 80+ and it will start to thermal throttle.

My [email protected] hits around 66 degrees on both cores using the 100% load test on TAT. Thats with a Zalman 7700 'AlCu' cooler, with the fan running at around 50% or so (set with the fanmate)
 
Well then! i'll open 'er up now and have a look, maybe plug that exhaust fan in... thanks for the info all
 
Corasik said:
Core temp of 65 degrees under full load is considered 'normal', 70 warm, 75 hot. 80+ and it will start to thermal throttle.
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I think if you leave throttling enabled it kicks in at 65c. Ive disabled it and seen 83c on my e6400, usual orthos temps are about 70c and I see no harm in that.

My idle is 60c though :eek: but nothing I do alters that much, apart from benchmarking

Whats the max safe volts though ? Max Ive used is 1.62v
 
Well I've activated all 4 system fans (3 in - 2 at front, 1 on top + 1 exhaust next to CPU) and sealed up the case a bit and its now idling at ~50C.

Will stress it soon enough...

::edit::
Alright then! With those quick mods load temp has dropped a full 10C....
 
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which beg's the question getting back to the point, Do I go on core temps, or whatever AI tools are telling me? I mean even during games it doesn't go that high so it may be abnormal reasings when the core temps are 22 odd, and the other temperatures are 70+?
 
im just talkign about reading the temp from TAT or coretemp, not actually running the TAT stress thing. also oddly if i run Orthos i get peak temps of say 58c. if i run orthos and Rthdribl it stays about 5c cooler. cant fathom why when its doing more work it runs cooler. unless maybe because the gpu is sucking more power the cpu runs on lower voltages, but cpu z doesnt say anything.
 
Orthos defaults to a lower priority, hence why your computer doesnt become laggy even though you are occupying both cores 100%

If you go and run something else to any great extent, its likely that program is a lesser workload for the cpu then orthos would have handed out. Less work results in a lower temp.
Dont use cpuz to read volts, speedfan should do better and it gives a graph also
 
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