E6600 cooling problems + random....

ronok · 17 Apr 2007 at 00:50

Ok, so when I first built my PC I had really bad cooling problems, the thing was reaching like 60 on idle so I made threads and was told to reseat hs etc.... I did that and all was fine it was at what I thought was a temp I could live with... That's until I decided I was going to try and overclock it, so i looked at a few threads and I notice my CPU is actually running quite hot for the average E6600.... I ran TAT and set my cpu to 100% and temps quickly went up to 60*C... Nope that's not going to go through OCing....

During this process I was looking in my bios (my board is the intel badaxe 2) and I noticed that the smart cooling option was turned off which I thought was weird as most places suggested having it on as it's known to keep the processor slightly cooler.. So I reset my bios' settings (I hadn't really done anything so I figured I'd make sure everything was normal) and it obviously turned it on.....
I booted up my PC to try and sort a few things out and I decided to check the temp of my cpu as it should be slightly cooler.... It was at 50*C when before it had been running at 39ish..... I looked at my fan speed and it was at 800 rpm when normally it was at 1600ish...... What is going on here?
I quickly reset and turn it back off and things are back to normal..... Eh?
Do I have a problem with my board or what? :-/

I also decided to reseat my hs again, but, when trying to unplug it from the mobo I can't get it away..... I mean the wire connecting it to the board not the hs itself........ So I decide to leave it.... I'm really wondering what I should do in this situation..... :-/

Playing Half Life 2 the CPU is rising to temps of 55*C..... :-/

Basically I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I should do with any of these situations..... :-/

ronok · 17 Apr 2007 at 16:14

Yes I've been using stock hs+fan....

I've been looking around and many people have been saying that they have similar temps to me after ocing even with stock hs+fan.... So I've been looking at it wondering what's going on......

I was actually looking into buying a new heatsink for overclocking anyway, but, figured I'd work everything out first.....

I figured the fan would start to spin up with it turned on before it reached 50*C+..... Even when it went up to 60 I didn't notice any kind of increase in fan rotation. :-/ It really confused me as to what exactly it does.

My mb temps are 34*C in system zone 1 and 30*C in zone 2... This is according to the intel desktop util that came with the board...

That's exactly how I've been trying to remove the fan wire. lol It really doesn't want to move.

I also just used tat to put both cores up to 100% and they were at 75*C within a min..... :-/

ronok · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:10

Ah...... I probably should have thought of that myself really....... >.>;;

ronok · 18 Apr 2007 at 00:49

I guess this is actually what I will be doing...... I was wondering though, with coolers like the tuniq tower, do you litterally have to remove the motherboard from the case in order to seat it? I was thinking about going in this kind of direction, but, in the antec solo, space for the board is pretty slim when removing it..... Basically I was wondering if there is any way around having to remove the motherboard in order to save some hassle. lol

ronok · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:29

Noise isn't really a problem for me as in my Antec Solo I can't ever hear the stock cpu fan.... Only time I can hear much at all is if I turn up my rear mounted fan.... :-/

How exactly does the AC7 perform compared to some newer hs out?

ronok · 18 Apr 2007 at 13:41

Ok cool, thanks for your help.

My only real problem with these hsf is the stupid way intel makes you install them..... Those four clips pretty much guarentee some people don't install them properly. :-/

ronok · 18 Apr 2007 at 14:24

Oh, I did follow the instructions on the stock fan, but, them clips are horrid. lol You can't really tell for sure if they are really all the way in so you don't know if it's properly secured.. With AMD's design I've always know when it's been secure.

ronok · 18 Apr 2007 at 14:45

WJA96 said:
It's dead easy to tell if they are in and locked. You can see the white tab in the black rivet underneath. No white tab = no lock. And you can always count the clicks. The first click it goes through the hole (get all 4 in) The second click it locates onto the motherboard (2 opposite tabs together) and the third click the white tab punches through and it's very firmly locked in place (again, 2 opposite side tabs together).

That last click needs a lot of force and I don't think most users press hard enough, hence they get poor contact and high temperatures. I also never fit the CPU cooler in the case as you simply cannot press hard enough in my opinion.

3 clicks you say? I think I got two as that's what the instructions said..... v.v;;