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E6300 and AC7 Temps

dlknight

dlknight

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Hey all,

Just installed a new Core2Duo setup in my rig, very sad to dismantle my old DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D and Opteron 144 :( but it makes sense to upgrade to Core2.

Anyway I have installed a E6300 and the AC7 with the stock thermal paste blowing out towards my papst 120mm exhaust fan. I have a Akasa 80mm intake fan at the front of the case.

My idle temperatures are currently showing as 36C (for both cores) in Speedfan. Coretemp 0.97 shows core 1 as 39C and core 2 as 36C.

Question is do I need to reseat the AC7 and remove the stock thermal paste and apply some AS5 to get lower idle temps ? or am I expecting to much from the AC7 ?

Want to get my temperatures right as stock before I begin O/Cing.

Cheers

Dave
 
This is what Artic Cooling say-

Thermal Compound
We ship our coolers with our latest ARCTIC MX-2 thermal compound pre-applied. MX-2 is a high thermal conductivity and low thermal resistance compound that optimizes thermal dissipation. It is ideally suited for use in CPU and GPU cooling where thermal conductivity is a major factor.

So you should have no worries
 
Idealy you need to check your temps under load, run orthos or prime to stress your
cpu and check your temps and cpu fan speed.

The pad under the Ac7 is simular to or is AS5.

At the moment your idle temps don't look to bad but adding an 120mm fan to the front should help a little (if you can)

Rob
 
Your temps look the same as I had on the stock setting with an Arctic 7 cooler. Enjoy the overclocking its not often you get something for nothing in this world.
 
When i had my E6300 i found it very easy to overclock to the 3.0GHz mark (managed 3.15GHz in the end) and that was with the Geil 800MHz ULL stuff at 900MHz. Was never really sure what was holding me back so could get no further before i upgraded to my q6600.

TBH i was very happy with a 1.35GHz overclock, so if you can get one for a good price i would say go for it.
 
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