E6600 Temps

Marky · 29 Apr 2007 at 19:42

Hey all,

I currently have an E6600, and have currently done nothing to it (No overclocking what so ever).
It has an Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 on it, and it's only using the thermal pad that was already on the HS.

I'm currently getting temps of around 45 - 50C on each core at default load (On the desktop surfing the net etc.)

Is this normal? Should I have used a thermal paste? Am I able to take it off and apply some paste?

THANKS!

- Marky ^^

MofoKilla · 29 Apr 2007 at 19:44

that seems abit hot mate if it aint overclocked. i got mine clocked at 3.40 and its idle at around 46 or there abouts on a zalman areo flower.

keogh · 29 Apr 2007 at 19:58

Marky said:
Hey all,

I currently have an E6600, and have currently done nothing to it (No overclocking what so ever).
It has an Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 on it, and it's only using the thermal pad that was already on the HS.

I'm currently getting temps of around 45 - 50C on each core at default load (On the desktop surfing the net etc.)

Is this normal? Should I have used a thermal paste? Am I able to take it off and apply some paste?

THANKS!

- Marky ^^

Deffo not right, I have a AC7 on the E6600, and I idle at 32c @ 3.5ghz.

james.miller · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:02

my e6600 runs very hot. it has been documented by quite a few e6600 owners. at 3.3ghz im running around 65c load in both cores using a tuniq tower

keogh · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:05

james.miller said:
my e6600 runs very hot. it has been documented by quite a few e6600 owners. at 3.3ghz im running around 65c load in both cores using a tuniq tower

James are you happy at the max temp of 65c? I get a load temp of 60c @ 3.5ghz, but I could get to 3.6ghz within 65c... be good to see if others are happy going beyond 60c?

liamcrane · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:22

i have an e660 and i have not overclocked mine i have the standered heatsink on it that came with it any my temps are as follows

CPU idles 31c underload 41c
Both core idle 28c underload 39c
GPU 8800 idle 51c underload 61c

Marky · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:43

So do you think applying some thermal paste would help this matter? I'm currently just using the mat that was on the HS.

Richdog · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:50

keogh said:
Deffo not right, I have a AC7 on the E6600, and I idle at 32c @ 3.5ghz.

Ambient temps? I would say your temperature sensor may be off unless you have very low ambient temps (sub-20c)... 32c @ 3.5ghz is what you would get with good watercooling... never mind mediocre air. I imagine youer ambient must be ~24c? 8c above ambient with a hot overclocked CPU and a cooler like that would be a tad miraculous imo. :eek:

Marky said:
So do you think applying some thermal paste would help this matter? I'm currently just using the mat that was on the HS.

Yes, buy some AS5.

keogh · 29 Apr 2007 at 21:12

Richdog said:
Ambient temps? I would say your temperature sensor may be off unless you have very low ambient temps (sub-20c)... 32c @ 3.5ghz is what you would get with good watercooling... never mind mediocre air. I imagine youer ambient must be ~24c? 8c above ambient with a hot overclocked CPU and a cooler like that would be a tad miraculous imo.

Well they jump to 59c/60c on full load, so the sensor must start working at load then?

I actually maybe wrong about that idle temp though... that might have been at stock, I can't test my idel temp now cos Im 6hrs into orthos testing my ram clock. But when im happy with that Ill have another look.

Marky · 29 Apr 2007 at 21:35

Would I need to buy some ruboff liquid to get the previous thermal mat off or do I leave it on or does it not need rubbing off at all?

Logic Zero · 29 Apr 2007 at 22:11

You need to take it off and clean the heatsink/proc's IHS thorougly before putting AS5 on

Marky · 29 Apr 2007 at 22:29

Logic Zero said:
You need to take it off and clean the heatsink/proc's IHS thorougly before putting AS5 on

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=OA-001-AK&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27

Is that okay to use?

JoyPadJedi · 30 Apr 2007 at 00:22

Yes perfect. Then some AS5 applied as per the online instructions on thier website and you're set. Deffo shouldn't be getting those temps. Make sure also that there's good airflow in the case and that your fans are actually spinning! (obvious but worth checking).

For reference I have the Noctua cooler and once up to temp, CPU idles at around 20 degrees and both cores around 25 (all hail the Noctua!).

Marky · 30 Apr 2007 at 00:29

JoyPadJedi said:
Yes perfect. Then some AS5 applied as per the online instructions on thier website and you're set. Deffo shouldn't be getting those temps. Make sure also that there's good airflow in the case and that your fans are actually spinning! (obvious but worth checking).

For reference I have the Noctua cooler and once up to temp, CPU idles at around 20 degrees and both cores around 25 (all hail the Noctua!).

Okay nice one

I'll buy them tommorow

SooTyLaD · 30 Apr 2007 at 00:57

I have the noctua hsf on my e6600... i'm running @ 1.45v and at full load (orthos) it sits at 66C :eek:

- its in a Lian Li PC-7 Case with stock case fans...

it idles around 35-38 on this voltage and i'm gonna be stress testing it for stability overnight but i'm not sure i'm happy with 66 degrees...

expecially since the fan is a top quality one do you think something is amiss?

i used the noctua thermal paste maybe i should switch to AS5, but that wont make that much difference...

chipper36 · 30 Apr 2007 at 01:14

QuiKsiLVeR said:
I have the noctua hsf on my e6600... i'm running @ 1.45v and at full load (orthos) it sits at 66C - its in a Lian Li PC-7 Case with stock case fans...

it idles around 35-38 on this voltage and i'm gonna be stress testing it for stability overnight but i'm not sure i'm happy with 66 degrees...

expecially since the fan is a top quality one do you think something is amiss?

i used the noctua thermal paste maybe i should switch to AS5, but that wont make that much difference...

Just dropped my vcore to 1.45v and testing 3.6GHz on E6600 with orthus small fft... 45 mins and 54c both cores.
Thats using a Tuniq Tower.
Temps seem to vary from cpu to cpu, i have had 2 6600's now and 1 runs .1v higher to get the same speed but temps were roughly the same on both.

keogh · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:59

chipper36 said:
Just dropped my vcore to 1.45v and testing 3.6GHz on E6600 with orthus small fft... 45 mins and 54c both cores.
Thats using a Tuniq Tower.
Temps seem to vary from cpu to cpu, i have had 2 6600's now and 1 runs .1v higher to get the same speed but temps were roughly the same on both.

Oh they must differ, I need 1.550v+ to get 3.6ghz. Once beyond 3.3ghz, the vcore jumps are quite high!

james.miller · 30 Apr 2007 at 10:01

keogh said:
James are you happy at the max temp of 65c? I get a load temp of 60c @ 3.5ghz, but I could get to 3.6ghz within 65c... be good to see if others are happy going beyond 60c?

not really. im happy with it staying under 65c or so - thats still below intels guidelines. Im not happy with that heat @ 3.3ghz though. especially when im using tuniq

munge · 1 May 2007 at 23:06

james.miller said:
not really. im happy with it staying under 65c or so - thats still below intels guidelines. Im not happy with that heat @ 3.3ghz though. especially when im using tuniq

What are Intel's guidelines for max temp for the E6600? Mine was up to mid-60s and 3.6GHz stock volts, but I backed off to 3.375GHz as I felt the temps were a little on the high side.

Or is that just me being a Nancy boy used to my old Opteron?

SooTyLaD · 2 May 2007 at 12:23

munge said:
What are Intel's guidelines for max temp for the E6600? Mine was up to mid-60s and 3.6GHz stock volts, but I backed off to 3.375GHz as I felt the temps were a little on the high side.

Or is that just me being a Nancy boy used to my old Opteron?

3.6Gig on STOCK VOLTS?!?!?!

i can't get 3.6 gig @ 1.475 volts without all sorts of crashing and restarting... how on earth are you doing that at 1.325V?

either you've got an exceptionally awesome e6600 or i've got an exceptionally bad one... gutted!