E6300 high temps

fs123 · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:41

I have just built the system in my sig and have overclocked the E6300 to 2.8GHz for now. The problem is that the cpu coretemp seems to be pretty high. At idle it's about 54 Deg C and shoots up to around 63 Deg C under load. The wierd thing is that my old PC shows a motherboard temp of 30 but this shows 39 Deg C in the same room. Room temp is around 24-27 Deg C.

I have updated to the latest bios and can boot into windows at 3.09GHz (7x440) and run benchmarks but the temp starts to rise quite alarmingly. At 3.09GHz the temp reached 69 Deg C under load!! :eek:

At the higher clock speeds I have to increase the core voltage to 1.41V.

What bothers me is that even at stock speed the temp is rather high (46 Deg C idle, 52 Deg C Load). I thought the Scythe Ninja was supposed to be one of the best coolers.

Anyone any suggestions on how to bring the temps down?

*sorry about sig.

Socaddict · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:48

um, what rig in sig?

gam3r · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:53

Are these the core temps?

manoz · 12 Sep 2006 at 18:41

First thing to do is turn down the temp in your room. 24-27 is pretty high. Room temp should be around 20-21 but it depends on the person of course.

Socaddict · 12 Sep 2006 at 21:44

just post your rig. we still have no idea whats in it.

fs123 · 12 Sep 2006 at 23:32

The system is :-

e6300 @ 2.8 GHz (400x7) Vcore=1.350V cooled by Scythe Ninja Plus
Asus P5B deluxe wifi
2GB PC6400 G.Skill F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK
Radeon X1800XT 256MB

fs123 · 12 Sep 2006 at 23:39

manoz said:
First thing to do is turn down the temp in your room. 24-27 is pretty high. Room temp should be around 20-21 but it depends on the person of course.

There is no heating in the room! The weather is fairly warm here lately. The room is pretty small and the heat from the pc warms it up pretty quickly!

Tumbletop · 13 Sep 2006 at 01:23

I was making some measurements under load myself at the weekend using the stock Intel cooler on an E6700. Coretemp was showing it at similarly allarming figures at stock speeds (2.67Ghz), ie. 60-63 degrees in am ambient air temp of 25 or so.

Upgrading the cooling to a decent water cooled block has dropped this to about 40 which I'm a lot happier with (and ready to play with overclocking now), so maybe your heat sink isn't seated properly?

Also - why does Coretemp indicate a temperature over 20 degrees more than what the mobo reports? If people are purely going on the motherboard readings (which you would unless you knew about coretemp) then people are going to be pretty mislead about just how hot their CPU is running at.