e6600 - Is this too hot?

[Bobman_JCT]

this has been my first attempt at overclocking, and I've had some pretty good results, all things considered.

Now, I'm not too worried about shortening the life of my CPU, since this is pretty much instead of upgrading to a better core 2, and I'll be replacing it with an i7 rig probably sometime next year.

So, it only really needs to last me until then (the CPU is 3 years old already).

With that in mind, I have it clocked to 3.33Ghz, with a max load temperature of 56C (at 3.42Ghz it's 60C, I thought that was a bit high). Would you say this was within acceptable? Should I go for the 3.42 clock instead, or perhaps lower it? This is alll to match a new HD 5850 graphics card.

 

[SkodaMart]

56c is fine/good 60c is fine too, give 3.4 a try, that was the max I could get out of mine.

 

[Beerbaron]

i had a stock e6600 that was lapped running hotter than that. those temps are fine

 

[Bobman_JCT]

Scratch what was it this post. Ran it at 3.35Ghz for 30 mins, high was 63C. I think I'll leave it there for now, unless anyone thinks I should raise it.

 

[coupe69]

So I could go higher?

Of course

What is the highest I should go?

As high as you can! 3.6GHz would be the next obvious step for a nice 1600FSB, that's providing you're using the x9 multi.

EDIT: Ran it at 3.5Ghz, ran stable but was 69C. That too hot?

69 is fine, what vcore are you using? How are you testing for stability?

I had an E6600 once many years ago, ran mine at 3.6GHz 24/7 just fine, although I can't find any temp screenshots.

 

[Bobman_JCT]

As high as you can! 3.6GHz would be the next obvious step for a nice 1600FSB, that's providing you're using the x9 multi.

69 is fine, what vcore are you using? How are you testing for stability?

69 is fine? Even though it's like, 5/6 degrees off the max temp?

Testing for stability with Orthos, using automatic VCore. Coretemp to measure temperatures. Tried lowering VCore, but it made things unstable, and had some wierd glitches with the windows GUI when I did. Heightening it would just make it hotter, no?

 

[miniyazz]

EDIT: I'm sorry, I totally misread the question.Ignore everything I just said.