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Q6600 arrived! Yay! - Temps are weird though

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Finally upgraded from my e6400 to a Q6600 which I was very happy about, did some testing making sure it's all stable and it appears to be so. One thing I did notice was that the difference between Core #0 and Core #3 was 7c - 8c which seemed a little odd, 2-3c would have been okay but 7-8 ?

q6600-coretemp.jpg


Any ideas? Uneven IHS or is this normal?



On testing though I got a nice increase in performance - tested Crysis for this and gained a decent amount of FPS with just the CPU change from the E6400 to the Q6600 :) Oddly though the minimum FPS on the quad is 5 -6 FPS lower than the E6400, but the average and max FPS is 5 - 6 higher... strange! Anyway, benchmark pics:

E6400
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Q6600
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q6600-gts512-allhigh-postmed-stock.jpg
 
Thanks! that's alright then, as long as it's near enough normal :)

Any explanation for the drop of 5 FPS to the minimum frame rate in Crysis though? That one seemed a bit weird. Ran it a couple of times over in case it was just the benchmark but it produced very similar results.
 
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