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Need some festive help!

Ahhh i'm with you now Jon, I didn't realise they updated the 6600's to a 65w version, i'm not too well up on Intel chips anymore as I have been using Phenom's for a while now. Apart from the laptop which is C2D :)
Ironically though when I went from an early 90watt athlon 64 x2 to the 65w 6000+ x2, it ran stupidly hot full load. At the time though it was when AMD first went from 90w to 65w and they actually ran hotter than the 90w ones, i'm sure Intel has never had that issue.
BTW I like your description "wastes 65w" lol, very true.
 
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Upon rereading I think the issue may be the difference between e6600 and q6600, the latter is the quadcore that runs famously hot, the former is a dual core that the OP now owns.

Interesting to hear that about amd. All Intel's tdp is meant to be is a crude guide for thermal engineers to work to, e.g. dissipate 85W while maintaining a temperature delta under 50 degrees. Is your example related to a die shrink going a bit wrong for amd (90nm to 65nm perhaps) or just a strange way of specifiying their chips?

I can't say I know much about AMD myself. I don't use them, so tend to ignore their lineup. Bad really. Wastes 65W seemed apt, though I use my computer instead of central heating so it's all put to good use in the end :)
 
The cooler is the standard shuttle cooler, as mentioned in post 5.

I looked up the TDP's of both processors and yes, my previous processor was 85w and this e6600 is now 65w, hence why i wasn't too bothered about cooling when buying the chip.

SiSoftware Sandra showed the core temp as 89, making me very worried, but now i think im quite comfortable with max temps of 60.

Thank you very much for the help guys
 
I think that was actually the case Jon yes, when AMD shrunk their die from 90nm, and their TDP to 65 they were actually hotter at first lol. Later they must have sorted out the problem as they ran very cool after that, except I had the hot version which still got to 55c with an Arctic Cooler 7.
I think that is your problem magnumsport, I would hazard a guess that the shuttle cooler just isn't quite good enough to keep the chip around the 50deg mark. I realise my mistake now though also, I wasn't noticing all along that you had an e6600, I was thinking it was the quad (it was late last night and had too many painkillers lol). I wouldn't worry at all though mate, 60deg is nothing for an Intel, I wouldn't worry until it got to around 75 tbh :)
 
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