E6600 temps

[Usual Suspect]

What should load temps be on a E6600 roughly?

Easytune and Bios says its running at 47 idle.. coretemp says 37? which is correct?

Usual

Also my temp seems to Change VERY rapidly from 40 to 47 in seconds then back down.. then back up.. etc.. is something wrong here? every PC ive had in the past the temp normally rises and falls slowly

 

[Zogger]

very strange for the bios to read higher than coretemp. Would generally go with coretemp, specially as it's changing like that. My easytune readings go up and down quite quickly within about 4 degrees while the coretemp ones stay fairly stable.

 

[Usual Suspect]

What would you say is a high temp for these cores? Is this stock cooler a load of do do?

 

[Cob]

Keep it under 60c under load.

 

[FrostedNipple]

have you updated your bios, my bios would read temps wrong, then next update then changed core temp algorithems, so check it, since then ive had good temps, especially after buying a zalman aeroflower

 

[Usual Suspect]

Keep it under 60c under load.

Notice the water cooling.. not everone has this. Is over 60 on load really too high? when i clocked this too 2.6 the temps went very high under no load. I think this intel heatsink and fan is rubbish. Ive checked the contact and everything seems ok. Using silver 7 compund.

 

[VeNT]

Notice the water cooling.. not everone has this. Is over 60 on load really too high? when i clocked this too 2.6 the temps went very high under no load. I think this intel heatsink and fan is rubbish. Ive checked the contact and everything seems ok. Using silver 7 compund.

for water cooling I'd expect less.

 

[Usual Suspect]

Also.. this intel fan seems to run at 900 rpm upto about 1800 rpm. It never goes higher.. even though when the PC boots.. you can hear the Fan go top speed. Is there anyway of increasing the CPU fan speed? DS3 MB.

 

[El Jimben]

I don't know much about Intel but perhaps your board has Qfan (or whatever the equivalent is) enabled. This would basically lower the RPM of the fan so that the CPU is being cooled just enough while at idle and then gets faster when a load is applied.

 

[VeNT]

in bios there is a fan control option, set it to disabled.