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E6300 50C idle

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Screenshots say it all. These were taken with CPU usage between 2% and 11%.
I cleaned the old thermal residue off the heatsink and CPU 2 days ago and applied some fresh thermal compound. It's not made any difference.
Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-965P-S3. The actual gold heatsink on the motherboard is too hot to touch whereas the CPU heatsink barely warm. The gold heatsink is sitting right next to the CPU so I'm inclined to think that I'm getting false temp readings, but I'd like to know for sure.

By the way, it's not overclocked and I'm using the stock cooler.
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Thanks for any help.
 
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Bleah, I was told that the stock cooler would be fine... I guess I'll get a new cooler before summer sets in.
 
The stock cooler is fine, just not the best!

Those idle temps look ok for a stock cooler, it's what they get up to under load that's important.

What case cooling do you have?
 
I'd be inclined to put a 120mm fan as an intake on the front too, if that's possible on the case you have?

You could be right about the Northbridge getting so hot it's affecting your temps. Is it possible to balance a 60/80mm fan on the graphics card to cool that area?

80c is a bit higher than I'd be happy with.
 
Yeah, the case supports a front intake, I just didn't get one. Would it make much difference though? The rear fan has high/med/low settings and changing those doesn't seem to affect the temp much so I keep it on low since it's the quietest. I'd rather not mount a front intake. I'd like to keep noise to a minimum and there are 4 fans running in there already.
 
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Well, on my setup, it does make a difference.

With both front and rear fans on high, my temps are 3 to 5c lower than when they are on low.

With no front fan at all, they are 5 to 10 higher once the computer is warmed through.

Both fans on low just provides a nice flow of room temp air to help keep things cooler. Have you tried pointing a desk fan or something at the front of your case, just to see if it lowers the temps? (before you spend cash on fans and stuff!).

Sorry if this teaches you to suck eggs, but you have checked that you've seated the CPU heatsink properly, and you're not using too much thermal compound? Have your temps always been this high with this setup?

I've got a 120mm intake, a 120mm exhaust, an 80mm blowhole, and 80mm side intake fan on my case (aimed at the memory/northbridge), and also the GPU fan of course. All of the fans are at 7v, and the noise is perfectly acceptable I think. The 80mm fans are both sharkoon golf dimple jobs, which are pretty quiet anyway.

The intake will make a difference I think.
 
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The heatsink is seated properly. I don't think I put too much thermal compound on, but I doubt that what I used was too much. The temps weren't always this high. I built the machine about 2 months ago and it was low 40s/high 30s at first.

I've had a desk fan pointed at the case front for about 10 minutes now with the rear exhaust fan on high and still no change in the temp.
 
Mmm, strange.

Did you update the Bios prior to the temp changes? Often, the board manufacturers tweak the temp algorithms in Bios updates.

You need to identify what, if anything, you've changed in your setup or has changed in PC environment since the earlier temp readings.

If it's not throttling, then maybe it is just a quirky temp reading. I'd believe Coretemp over all the others to be honest.

It could be just one of those things you're best forgetting about!! :)
 
Bios shouldn't affect a Core2 processor with Coretemp/TAT as the sensors are inside the processor, not on the motherboard like older designs.

Likewise, even if the northbridge heat was being transfered along the motherboard into the cpu, the cpu's heatsink/fan would be able to cool this just the same as it would cool heat generated by the CPU.

At 50 degrees core temperature, the heatsink should only be slightly warm to the touch, certainly not 'hot'. 50 degree's core temp will have fallen to around 35 degrees even if your measuring at the IHS, the air cooled heatsink will be even cooler, but as long as its got a good thermal coupling thats what you want, because heat is easiest to transfer where there is a large heat differential.

I would believe TAT on most Core 2 setups, except E4300's where aparrently its 15 degrees out.
 
Based on your setup those temps seem about right. A change of HSF will help but I would also increase your case cooling by adding an intake fan to help with the overall airflow within the case.
Artic silver is not always the answer to lower temps, sometimes the pad that comes supplied with the stock cooler and coolers like the ACF7, work better as they can compensate slightly for concave IHS's.
 
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Why are people getting 50C idle with these Intel chips? Shouldn't a CPU be doing nothing at at idle?

My E4300 idles at 32C with 1.325v+1 offset and at 36C with 1.575v+1 offset (24-25C ambient room temps) using a SI-120 air cooler with a 120mm small CFM fan.
 
Not sure but my E4300 idles at 36 degrees but goes straight to 65 degrees when using Orthos small FFT's.

I have tried 2 different coolers , the stock Intel one and now have a Scythe Ninja but the temps have not changed at all.

Theres really nothing else i can do to lower the temps so will have to wait and see if it blows up in the future!!

Vcore is 1.38 btw

Ferret
 
been getting this problem for a while now with my 6600....much temps when I overclcok and raise the voltage slighly. Im happy up to 70C full load on both cores...and have never had a problem for 5 months now installed. It seems a lot of the Intel/Conroe CPU's have this problem.
 
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