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Q6600 Stock Cooler Warning!

LEE929394

LEE929394

LEE929394

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Just built my new system with a quadcore q6600 but was getting insane temperatures of 60 degrees C idle and 80-90 at full load!
The cooler that came with the cpu looked like it was seated properly (the push down fasteners are a nightmare to get right)
However after being quite concerned i took it off and reseated it again and now i have 19 degrees idle and about 40 degrees at full load...... quite a big difference!
So to anyone buying one of these Q6600's check your temperaures and make sure your heatsink fan is seated properly!!(very difficult to tell)
Anyone know if i've likely damaged my processor runnin at 80-90 degrees?
(it was only running for a few hours)
 
That's good news! Does thermal throttling prevent it from burning out even with a loose heatsink?
(this was my first PC build ever so appreciate all your knowledge!!):)
 
yes as soon as the temps hit 95c the CPU will throttle to decrease the temps, failing that I do believe that some motherboards themselves will actually cut out if the temperatures get to high and will effectivly turn the PC off
 
Yep around that. I don't think all the cores are maxed out when i tested it but it's a hell of a lot better than i was getting yesterday!
Think the Q6600 push pull heatsink fasteners are a bad design, it just looks too easy!
 
Core Temp lets you monitor Intel "Core Duo" "Core 2 Quad", " series die temperature.

The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. This sensor is digital, which means it doesn't rely on an external circuit located on the motherboard to report temperature, its value is stored in a special register in the processor so any software can access and read it. This eliminates any inaccuracy that can be caused by external motherboard circuits and sensors and then different types of programs trying to read those sensors


TAT (Intel Thermal Analysis Tool) http://shintai.ambition.cz/files/tat.exe and core temp accurately monitors all of the individual core temperatures for Intel processors like the Core 2 Duo and Quad range.

Note* Reported temps will be much higher in TAT or core temp than speedfan or motherboard bios readings. TAT and core temp (temps) are read from thermal diodes (DTS) inside each core and are not comparible to non-core readings.

Hence speed fan is out by +15 due to non direct (DTS) temp reading and is read by MB sensor only
 
TheMorningStar said:
both intel and amd actually make exceptonly good HS&Fs at the moment. i love intels spiraly pattern tbh. the heat pipes amd whips onto its higher end chip HS&F are pretty cool too.

always buy retail ya hear.
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uh think thats the first time ive ever heard somebody liking the stock hsf from intel the sound it use to make at load was pretty awful thank god i got the tuniq tower
 
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