Q6600 - THe importance of a case side fan

[jonstatt]

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

 

[jonstatt]

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

 

[jonstatt]

ooops...what a silly typo of mine! Should have been 2x9cm, 2x12cm and 1x25cm

Umm How Big!