Q6600 Cooling

You need a cooler that blows sideways directly at the rear case fan so it sucks the heat straight out, the stock cooler for e.g blows it at the side of the case which then raises the temp for GPU & everything else.
My Freezer 7 pro keeps my temp low, right now it shows 28.28.25.26 C
If I play Crysis on high it never goes above 45C Q6600 @ 2650
 
Get one of these badboys.
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izzy eckerslike said:
If I play Crysis on high it never goes above 45C Q6600 @ 2650
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I doubt Crysis puts it under any sort of load to be fair.
 
If you want to go high end air cooling on a Q6600.. then dont mess about get a TRUE and lap it and the CPU.. two good fans (2000RPM+) speedfan controlled for silence and no other air cooler will touch it once you really start pushing some heatload..
 
idle temps dont really mean all to much tbh I wouldnt worry about them... load temps matter most and you dont want to be pushing higher than 75c on prime small ffts load
 
Your chip is using speedstep to drop the speed when at idle to save energy and heat, yet your idle temps is 50c ???

Thats not great at all for a below stock chip, i run my Q6600 @ 3.6 and idle temps @ 3.6 is less than yours, under load with Crysis it hits around 45...

Look for the OCZ Vendetta 2, a great cooler that is on par with the more expensive Tunic tower and True 120, but half the price (not available from OCUK).
 
konam4 this is off topic but the pic in your sig - is that an EK block with comp fittings? - if so which ones are they and what tubing size are you running?
 
UKDTweak said:
Your chip is using speedstep to drop the speed when at idle to save energy and heat, yet your idle temps is 50c ???

Thats not great at all for a below stock chip, i run my Q6600 @ 3.6 and idle temps @ 3.6 is less than yours, under load with Crysis it hits around 45...

Look for the OCZ Vendetta 2, a great cooler that is on par with the more expensive Tunic tower and True 120, but half the price (not available from OCUK).
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Thanks mate will have a look for one did you lap your OCZ Vendetta 2 and CPU.
 
I have a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro cooling a q6600 too, whilst the performance is ok and a lot better than the standard intel heatsink I wish I'd gone for something about more heavyweight such as a TRUE as temps tend to get a bit high at times (into the 60's)
 
Popov said:
I have a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro cooling a q6600 too, whilst the performance is ok and a lot better than the standard intel heatsink I wish I'd gone for something about more heavyweight such as a TRUE as temps tend to get a bit high at times (into the 60's)
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What would you have gone for mate.
 
thing to remember with a TRUE is that it has very dense fins.. so you need a high static pressure fan in single configuration or two fans in push-pull to make sure that you pull airflow through the cooler.. The fin density does mean it will allow those extra 200/300mhz over something like a tuniq for example.

if you are aiming for 3.4ghz or so there is no point in getting a TRUE as other "low end coolers" will allow this sort of clock for less cost.. 3.4ghz - 3.6ghz generally needs something like a Tuniq... 3.6ghz+ is where the TRUE comes into its element.. And I think I should clarify when I am talking about "3.4ghz" I mean primestable at those clocks.. anyone can boot at 4ghz on the stock cooler :) as long as the rig is under low amounts of load
 
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