E6300 Temps

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 01:10

E6300 Temps (Now with Pics)

Running at 2.8GHz on a DS3R with Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Temps idle are around 51-52 and under load it goes up to about 70 max.

What would you guys recommend me doing? Voltage on CPU-Z says 1.408v. Seems pretty stable though with that voltage. Not quite sure about the temps though... I guess I could reduce the overclock and voltages a little. Obviously it's a x7 multiplier so should I go down to like 371 x 7 (2.6?).

Have to be cautious I guess, don't want my CPU frying lol.

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 09:59

Well I dunno if it's stable, as usually I leave a few progs running overnight come back in the morning and it's restarted.

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 10:09

I'm using TAT to measure the temperature at the moment

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 11:04

Hmm something weird, in the bios temps show as 36 however as soon as I get into windows, boom 55s now. I'm reducing the overclock to 372x7 (2.6) and check it out.

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 11:10

roozor said:
My E6300 does 3ghz on stock volts, 1.25. So it's not impossible!

Interesting, what cooling you using?

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 11:24

Ok well what would you recommend me doing, I'm looking at buying a new case for under £60 in the future, as I'm currently running on a crappy x-blade. Then I may buy some new thermal paste? And hopefully seat it all correctly outside the case. Until then should I say, bring it down to almost stock settings so I don't run the risk of damaging the CPU.

Some of this perhaps? Arctic Ceramique Thermal Compound (2.7g)

Maybe get one of those Soprano cases or perhaps a Lian-Li PC-7 if I can stretch a little.

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 12:08

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Ok well once again I removed my heatsink/fan to check if there is any problems around there. All looks fine, I can tell the heatsink is in good contact with the CPU as the thermal paste looks like it's melted/stuck. I removed the old thermal paste just by wiping it off the heatsink and cpu and applied some new. Well I say new it's been sitting there for a while in a small sealed plastic bag. But I'm still facing the problem, I definately know now the heatsink is in position correctly and those things are all good as I heard the 2 clicks etc and it doesn't feel as though it's about to fall off.

As you said, I do naturally keep the side of my case off. There is one fan behind the back of the Heatsink bringing the airflow from the ACF7 out of the case itself. And there is a another 80mm fan at the bottom of the front side of the case hopefully bringing cool air into the case itself.

Here's some pictures I gathered which may help you, help me xD

Showing the CPU placed on the motherboard with the thermal paste on

Showing the underside of the HSF

The bios I set it to on the first boot

Temperature results.

And heres a quick video I did just showing around my case and the heatsink itself after installation. (3gp can be opened in Quicktime if you have it)
http://www.uploadyour.info/download.php?filename=mov0004831062.3gp

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 12:39

I'd just like to say thanks for all the info so far Tooks, anyway I have a reply to your questions.

It didn't really make a difference when I brought it back down to stock maybe 1 or 2 degrees less :\! Mind you like you said about the ambient temps, I guess it's in a reasonably warm room I don't have a thermometer or anything but I guess it could be around 20 degrees?

Right now I'm out of thermal paste so I'm gonna make an order on overclockers, I guess that's the right thing to do.

Some of this perhaps? Akasa TIM Clean CPU & Heatsink Cleaner
And a fresh lot of thermal? Arctic Cooling MX-1 Thermal Compound

For the moment I guess I'll just have to stick with it!

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 17:00

Well good news. My order has just been shipped today and will arrive tommorrow heres whats on the list:

£3.99 x 1 - Arctic Cooling MX-1 Thermal Compound
£4.00 x 1 - Akasa TIM Clean CPU & Heatsink Cleaner
£15.99 x 1 - Delta 120mm Focussed Flow Fan (EHE)
£0.01 x 2 - OcUK Limited Edition Icybox Multipurpose Lan Bag
£25.99 x 1 - Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU

Looking forward to the delta

Never thought I'd pay that for a fan rofl. I wanna get some serious cooling done so I couldn't give it a miss and just so know one could say, "well, your cooling in your case probably isn't good enough"

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 20:31

Barry1337 said:
Dunno whats going on with they temps i got my cpu at 2.8ghz on stock cooler that was an E6300 stock volts but case is an akasa eclipse and they are realy good it never went over 62 load with stock.

Neither did mine until recently but I guess that's just weird for me isn't it that's why I've had to upgrade

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 22:26

Woah thanks for that guys, yea it makes sense at the end of the day, 2 running in dual channel next to each other obviously would create more heat. First time running dual channel so I wasn't really sure and I guess my brain was a bit :confused:

by the time I come to installing the memory

And stinka, nice temps there mate. Hopefully with this next upgrade I may be able to push it a little further if the temps are in my favour. Heard a lot of praise about this MX1 and the reviews look fantastic so it looks good!

Dharok · 26 Jul 2007 at 22:52

Yea I might be able to help someone here for a change instead of them helping me

What you do is set the FAN Speed Control Method to "Legacy" & FAN Speed Control Mode to "PWM" to maintain highest speed, which can be found in the PC Health Status menu.

That's what I did to keep my AC7 running at full whack all the time, seemed to work a trick.

Dharok · 27 Jul 2007 at 15:27

Well. I'm f'in amazed. Just cleaned CPU and Heatsink using Akasa TIM, applied some of the wonderful MX-1 Paste, booted up straight to 2.8GHz, stock volts and there you have it 43 degrees not under load

Going to stress test it now with Orthos and I'll be back to you later with those results.

Oh yea, about the delta, it's friggin noisy as hell! Decided I'm going to have to wait till I get a fan controller for that mother

Dharok · 27 Jul 2007 at 16:12

Yea crikey, they shift some air alright! Anyway, I have the results of the overclock so far. Stock voltage!

http://www.uploadyour.info/uploads/images/oc158855.png

I was thinking, do you guys reckon I could push her some more? Maybe 430x7 = 3.0GHz, then if thats ok then step it up to 3.2?

What's the limit for a good safe temperature? I thought it's 65 degrees but just wanted to make sure.

Dharok · 27 Jul 2007 at 17:38

Woah! Looks like I have a long way to go if you say 65!

!

3.0GHz! Upped the voltage a little!

Do you still think I can safely get 3.2 out of her ??

Dharok · 27 Jul 2007 at 18:37

stinka said:
your cpu should *iss 3.2 ghz but your ram maybe the limiting factor if your running 1:1

my geil tops out at 918, but was only stable to 898 mhz

when your happy with cpu stability using small ffts, try orthos blend to test your ram

Mmm, just a little problem. Not sure if it's to do with the ram but when I boot, it boots for like a second, shuts down for say 3 seconds and then boots again normally. Guess it might just have been when I switched the power off at the back perhaps.

Anyhow, gonna go for the 3.2 now!

Dharok · 27 Jul 2007 at 18:50

Yup running at 3.2 right now, all seems well Orthos is running etc. I think the ram is holding up nicely too! Will be interesting though when it comes to blend testing. But yea, 60-62 degrees it looks like at 3.2 so *issed that!

Gonna stick at 3.2 it looks like then, happy with that and haven't really given the MX1 200 hours yet to settle in nicely. So hopefully will only see max 60 in the future which I'm very happy with. I will post screenies of the oc shortly.