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My QX6700 seems to be running a little hot

XtAsY

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Its runs at about 45 degs C on idle and about 53 degs C under load. Using a Zalman CNPS9700 running at full fan speed. I was thinking, my PC is actually sitting on my desk under my bed (I have one of those high beds) I was wondering, maybe this is causing the high temps as the warm air cannot rise due to the bottom of the bed being near to the top of the case? All help much appreciated
 
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I dont have one mate but with 4 cores in it and not using water I would think that would be ok... but I dont truely know...

Stelly
 
53c load for 4 cores really isn't that bad mate... for that cooler aswell... dont be put of. If you can move it to somewhere with a lower ambient tempreture then go for it but cant imagine it will make THAT much difference..

are you running @ stock ? or have you oc'ed and put up the vCore at all?
 
Thanks for the responses

Everything is running at stock. I was just curious about my temps becuase I've seen people with the QX6700 runnning at 40 on idle on air. Then again, my room is always pretty warm and my case is in a closed in kind of area so its expected really. May consider water cooling at some point because I'd like a quieter system and having the CNPS9700 runnning at full RPM is pretty noisy :(
 
XtAsY said:
Thanks for the responses

Everything is running at stock. I was just curious about my temps becuase I've seen people with the QX6700 runnning at 40 on idle on air. Then again, my room is always pretty warm and my case is in a closed in kind of area so its expected really. May consider water cooling at some point because I'd like a quieter system and having the CNPS9700 runnning at full RPM is pretty noisy :(
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Quiet was my aim!
Its not an option! lol. once you get on water its so hard not to OC as much as you can! then the fans are booted up to keep the airflow! lol.
the temps seem pretty good IMO, going off the location of the rig
 
I've turned the radiator in my room all the way down. My CPU temps are now around 40-42 degs C on idle. It's not like I need the radiator on anyway as its a small room and the heat from the PC can pretty much keep it warm in here
 
I had mine @3.3 under a desk, two nights ago I went down to plug in my headphones and realised it was kicking out some heat that it would hit the back of the desk, upwards, and then back out so if you walked past the desk you'd feel the heat.


I decide to move it forward a bit, then decided on actually putting it sideways/taking the side off, getting an extra fan to pull air from the front of the case.


I was getting 46-48 idle temps before that, now I'm getting 36-38 idle.
Loads I haven't been testing much but around 56-58 last i checked.
 
Is that temperature from Speedfan, or a proper probe like TAT/Coretemp.

anyone claiming 40 degrees on air for a Quadcore, is probably just reading the motherboard temp, via speedfan/asusprobe etc. TAT/Coretemp are more accurate and read higher. 53 under load is a very good temperature. My E6700 Dual core hits 63 degrees (by TAT) at full load, although my Zalman is running in quiet mode, so not full speed.
 
E6600 Oc'd at 3.0Ghz, 1.3v using the same Zalman cooler as the OP. Seems to idle at 38 - 40c and runs at 55c under usualy gaming load although if I use the load tester on both cores withi TAT I can get the chip up to 60c.

The E6600 doesn't throtte down until it hits 85C in TAT according to a post I read whilst searching for the TAT utility so chances are you got quite a margin to play with.
 
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Well, this is my new idle temperature after turning the radiator off in the room. Full load is now about 48- 50 degs C.
 
conuk said:
what is the rest of your spec ?
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My spec is as follows:-

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
Zalman CNPS9700
2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400C4 TwinX
BFG GeForce 8800GTX
Abit IN9 32X MAX 680i SLI
OCZ GameXStream 700W
2 x Western Digital 74GB 16MB Cache raptors in RAID 0
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB
SoundBlaster X-FI Fatality
Creative Gigaworks 7.1 S750 THX
LG Dual Layer DVD-Rewriter
Antec Plusview 1000AMG SOHO file server case

I've managed to get some pretty decent temps on my QX6700 now

temps-1.jpg
 
U might be disappointed with watercooling in terms of noise. My ehiem 1250 even when suspended in mid air (to stop vibration transfer) was far from silent. A speed adjustable pump may be the way to go.
 
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