How hot should a Q6600 G0 be on a Tuniq Tower at idle, mine seems toasty.

Why do you have to add 15°c to the temps. If I did that whilst running prime 965 I would have core temps of 68°C x 4 which I don't believe. CoreTemp gives even worse reading and the bios gives a different one again. I'm using a freezer 7 at 3GHz/B3
 
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Why do you have to add 15°c to the temps. If I did that whilst running prime 965 I would have core temps of 68°C x 4 which I don't believe. CoreTemp gives even worse reading and the bios gives a different one again. I'm using a freezer 7 at 3GHz/B3
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68c load temps would be about right then.
 
HatMan said:
Why do you have to add 15°c to the temps. If I did that whilst running prime 965 I would have core temps of 68°C x 4 which I don't believe. CoreTemp gives even worse reading and the bios gives a different one again. I'm using a freezer 7 at 3GHz/B3
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Core Temp lets you monitor Intel "Core Duo" "Core 2 Quad", " series die temperature.
The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. This sensor is digital, which means it doesn't rely on an external circuit located on the motherboard to report temperature, its value is stored in a special register in the processor so any software can access and read it. This eliminates any inaccuracy that can be caused by external motherboard circuits and sensors and then different types of programs trying to read those sensors


TAT (Intel Thermal Analysis Tool) http://shintai.ambition.cz/files/tat.exe and core temp accurately monitors all of the individual core temperatures for Intel processors like the Core 2 Duo and Quad range.

Note* Reported temps will be much higher in TAT or core temp than speedfan or motherboard bios readings. TAT and core temp (temps) are read from thermal diodes (DTS) inside each core and are not comparible to non-core readings.

Hence speed fan is out by +15 due to non direct (DTS) temp reading and is read by MB sensor only

Further reading http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/howitworks.html
 
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Excellent response, thank you. TAT doesn't work under Vista 64. Nothing new there then!!!!!!!!!!! With my CPU back to stock 2.4GHz I am stable at 50°C all cores with NO load. That's crap.
 
Ok, first off the B3@105 W TDP vs G0 @95 W TDP (B3 simply runs hotter)

The B3's have been known to be a tad more concave (IHS) as well. What that amounts to is the cooler can be pivoted due to this ie less contact surface area resulting in less thermal dissipation of heat.

elimination process: have you checked the pro 7 mounts, are they fully locked in place with the motherboard mounting holes? (this has happened to me; one ac7 mount had not locked securely beneath the MB mount resulting in a high temp)

2) are you using the pre applied TIM that came with the Pro 7?

(core temp for vista 64bit. Simply unzip to C:\Program Files (x86)\CoreTemp\CoreTemp-0.95.4-VistaX64 and put a shortcut to coretemp-startup.bat in your startup folder - you may need to set this shortcut to run as administrator.) (courtesy of BillyTheImpaler)

http://billytheimpaler.teamhackaday.com/CoreTemp20withVista64hack.zip
 
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The mountings all look good. I have just now removed a Swiftech H20 Compact as it was a waste of my time and really noisy. It does no better than a Freezer 7 in my rig. I had some of the Ceramic compound supplied with it left and I refitted the HSF with that. I ought to change it for Artic Silver 5, maybe??? I have Coretemp working just not TAT. Thanks
 
Ok so I have swapped out the ceramic supplied with the H20 for Artic 5 and there is no differemnce in the temps. B3 idling at 46°/46°/46°/48°. My case has 4 Noctua 800rpm 120mm and a Freezer 7
 
If it makes you feel any better, I get around 40c idle overclocked with high performance water cooling! Your temps aren't too bad, check what you get during load.
 
I have just OC'd to 3.2GHz. Anyone who may have read my post titled "Overclock what overclock", may be wondering how I am suddenly able to overclock.... Well I dumped my four sticks of 1GHz Corsair XNS2 6400C4 in favour of 2 sticks of 2GHz OCZ 6400C5. Now I can overclock at will. Current temps at 3.2GHz are 50°/50°/50°52°C. Only problem now is Vista says I am clocked at 3.6GHz as does a Vista widget and the bios says 3.2GHz. I set the FSB to 400 and the multiplier to 8. So for years 8 x 400 = 3200. Ideas anyone????
 
Test 6 of Prmie 95 running the max heat max stress test gives me 71°/71°/70°/70 this can't be good. Still clocked at 3.2GHz @ 1.375
 
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I have just OC'd to 3.2GHz. Anyone who may have read my post titled "Overclock what overclock", may be wondering how I am suddenly able to overclock.... Well I dumped my four sticks of 1GHz Corsair XNS2 6400C4 in favour of 2 sticks of 2GHz OCZ 6400C5. Now I can overclock at will. Current temps at 3.2GHz are 50°/50°/50°52°C. Only problem now is Vista says I am clocked at 3.6GHz as does a Vista widget and the bios says 3.2GHz. I set the FSB to 400 and the multiplier to 8. So for years 8 x 400 = 3200. Ideas anyone????
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I also have that problem on my friends pc on vista, he has a Q6600 running at 400x8(3.2GHZ) but pretty much all programs except CPU-Z read it as 3.6Ghz, im guessing they for some reason cant tell the multiplier has been moved down by 1. :confused:
 
Hat man which motherboard are you using m8

The other alternative is to upgrade to an extreme cooler for example The Tuniq cooler is an excellent cooler

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler

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

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQwMiwxMCwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=

http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/tuniq_120/index.shtml

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2198


(Note The Thermalright Ultra 120 is typically seen as the best cooler. Due to manufacturing problems these coolers have been reported to have an uneven base. The base may require lapping to ensure an even/flat base)


or alternatively lap the B3. lapping the B3 will lower the temps significantly.
 
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My B3 is lapped already. I did that sometime last week using a piece of glass and 400/800/1200 etc. I am happy with the lapping. CPU-Z says 3.2 but CoreTemp say 450 x 6 @ 3.6 but the bios IS set to 8 x 400 Mobo is a Gigabyte P35 DQ6 rev 1.0
 
That seems to be a problem that peeps are saying when using vista. CPUZ is reporting correctly so it should not really be an issue. its the alogarithm with core temp and it is known issue when you down the multi but it will record the correct temps.

I am not sure if the Tuniq will fit your motherboard. (You may need to post to find out in the cooling section)

Thermalright has a compatibility chart and instructions for removing the crazy cool back plate to fit an extreme/ultra

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/Ultra-120-MCL.htm

removing P35 DQ6 crazy cool instructions

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/removing_gigabyte.htm

And the instructions are in the motherboard manual page 16/17
 
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