Q6600 running too hot

[petemyster]

as a curious q6600 owner myself, what would be a decent temperature to have (IE a temperature that won't fry my processor), when under 100% load (am thinking of overclocking, am thinking 3.6 on a Z600)?

 

[setter]

I would ideally try to stay below 75'c @100% load, of course though your temps will depend on your cpu cooling, case airflow and the voltage youll require for any given clockspeed.

 

[AMG]

mine runs at about 30-55c OC to 3.6 not saying it stays there, the stupid ASUS AI suite likes cutting the power down a bit so most of the time is less than 2.4 untill load is applied

 

[Alex R]

mine runs at about 30-55c OC to 3.6 not saying it stays there, the stupid ASUS AI suite likes cutting the power down a bit so most of the time is less than 2.4 untill load is applied

Is that measured using Core Temp or something else? The "down" clocking is normal and not an Asus thing, think of it as an engine revving, you wouldn't want to be revving the nuts off it when pootling around Tesco's car park. If you want to stop it doing that you need to disable speedstep in the BIOS.

 

[Crgwal]

Is that idle or load? If it's load, 74c wouldn't surprise me with a quad and the stock cooler. These are hot chips. If it's idle, looks like you need to refit the heatsink.

that was it at 100% load 10min on prime 95

 

[{SAS}TB]

Try 5 passes of IBT using RealTemp

 

[StevenRaith]

Got my C2Q6600 sitting at 3Ghz under full load, looking at 52deg with four 64bit prime threads going.

Everest reports different core temps. I guess I can drop that after a few load/power off cycles over the next few days, though - just installed the Noctua cooler with some AS5 so I expect it will bed in and drop a little further. It's already bedded in a bit, it was showing 65 when I did a ten minute Prime run an hour ago :shock:

Also, the voltages are still set to Auto, so I can drop that down from the current 1.42 to about 1.35 or something, going by this thread?

I'm probably going to set it back to stock for the sake of silence, but it's nice to know I can go into the BIOS, load up teh OC profile and use it when I want to do some transcoding or something. Kickdown switch, as it were.