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Q6600 - THe importance of a case side fan

jonstatt

jonstatt

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In the user guide for the Q6600 it shows a picture of a recommended casing with a side fan.

I have a Thermaltake Kandalf case. Currently I only utilise the 2 12cm fans (one front, one rear). It also came with 2 9cm fans (one rear, one top) but they both failed after about 6 months (dodgy batch I guess). With my old CPU though I found the 2 9cm fans made little to no difference.

Thermaltake have a newer side panel for the case that includes a 25cm fan. Is that a good/important thing to add?

Currently I am within tolerances with the temperatures but I haven't even started to look at overclocking yet.

Jonathan
 
These things nearly run as hot as the sun having plenty of case cooling is definetly recommended most likely why they added a little diagram in the user manual as Intel will know how hot they are :p
 
So this is my current status:-

I now have a Thermaltake Kandalf case with 5 fans. 2 12 inch fans, one front (intake) one back (out). 2 9 inch fans, one top and one rear (both out) and a 25cm side panel fan.

This lowered the P5W DH motherboard temperature lower, but hasnt affected the CPU idle temperatures as measured with RMClock.

I am getting 50, 51, 52, 54 on the cores.

Under 4 instances Prime95 torture tests I am seeing an improvement.

I am getting 75, 75, 72 72 on the cores

Ambient room temperatures is 25 degrees.

This is stock heatsink with stock paste.

Has anyone had lower at idle (speedstepping enabled) with stock heatsink?

I also notice on Vista, no matter how many processes I kill and services I stop, that I never get true idle. The clock speed does not stay low, flicking up to full clock speed about once every 5-10 seconds.

Jonathan
 
I would not be worried about 75c load on quad unless its dying, maybe 95c & I'd start to get a bit edgy :p

There are guides on the net for stopping unecessary services in vista, I'd deffo think about this; the amount of crap running .. sheesh :eek:
 
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Just built my Q6600 machine, got a Noctua on it (with AS5) and a very airy case (Akasa Acrylic with 2 80mm fans on the CPU area, dont laugh at the chaviness of the case!) and I have yet to see the temperature in the 40s. I've put a lot of stress on it and it just stays at 38/39! (sidestep etc is off!) This is a B3 Q6600 by the way! It's at 2.4ghz default with RAM at DDR2-1066 at 5-5-5-15 (OCZ Reaper) I will OC in a while, not now while I have critical work to do.

Got to say I am VERY impressed with this CPU! Running Vista X64 perfectly, even my Audigy 4 Pro's 7.1 works perfect!
 
I have a very cool room (air con) as I prefer cold weather (being a Scot) and living in London is too hot for me.

The heatsink is cool to touch and the exhausted air is cool...Also you have to remember the case I have has 2x80mm fans directly blowing freezing cold air on the heatsink as well as the heatsink's 120mm fan, and another fan to the other side of the heatsink blowing on it. It effectively has 3x80mm fans and 1x120mm fan on it.

Will take pics when I get home.

Speedfan I used....
 
You can't directly compare Speedfan results with IntelTAT though.

On my PC Speedfan reads at least 16 degrees lower than IntelTAT
 
Teal said:
You can't directly compare Speedfan results with IntelTAT though.

On my PC Speedfan reads at least 16 degrees lower than IntelTAT
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Anyway I don't spend all day looking at temps and "benchmarking", it feels cool to me and fine...got my work done well faster :)
 
I don't see what the problem is, if his room is airconditioned the ambient temperature is going to be pretty low, also if the PC is close to or in the direct path of the aircon air flow the internal ambient temperature is going to be very good inside the case.

I think high 30's to low 40's is perfectly acceptable for a Q6600 at stock under those conditions.

rafster: for the eternally curious here it would be great if you could download the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool to satisify our curiosity. :D
 
Biffa said:
I don't see what the problem is, if his room is airconditioned the ambient temperature is going to be pretty low, also if the PC is close to or in the direct path of the aircon air flow the internal ambient temperature is going to be very good inside the case.

I think high 30's to low 40's is perfectly acceptable for a Q6600 at stock under those conditions.

rafster: for the eternally curious here it would be great if you could download the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool to satisify our curiosity. :D
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Not a prob, when I come home I will get some pics up for you guys. Believe me, I don't want to be at work!!

I'll start OCing next weekend when i've finished a critical project.
 
Intel CPU's will throttle if they get too hot.
If they get dangerously hot they will throttle and eventually force a system shutdown.
If your machine starts exhibiting such an issue then you can worry about trying to solve it.
Seriously - don't spend so much time worrying about such things, go ahead and actually use your machine.

As somebody else in this thread has already said - don't benchmark all day.
I see post after post from some people:

Is this a good score on benchmark X?
Is this a good score on benchmark Y?
Is my temperature too hot?
Should I make the front glow blue?
My benchmark Z seems low, why?

When do you guys find the time to actually ut to use these machines.
By the time you're happy with all of the answers to the questions above, you've usually followed up with:

Help me spend £400 on new bits
What bits should I upgrade now?

Use your machine, if you have problems then worry about them.
 
lol how incredibly patronizing why not lets critique debate cogitate and use our machines all at the same time.
Upgrades and tweaks tinkering building are half the fun of owning a pc. :rolleyes:
It's like a finely tuned sports car well that's how i treat my baby at least.
 
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Can't get Coretemp to work, throwing up a loop of error boxes, have to end process.

Anyway not too bothered, the air the case is throwing out is cold and the heatsink feels cool :P
 
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