Q6600 + Ultra 120 Ex..... high temps?

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Put together a comp for a mate of mine, nice Q6600 that should be adequately cooled by a Ultra 120 Ex + 1600RPM SFlex, however at stock (2.4Ghz, 1.28V) its hitting 45C idle and 60+ Orthos load.

is it a bad mount, poor heatsink flatness, or just the fact that Quads run quite hot?

Thanks!
 
Check the temps across the cores if there all roughly the same you have good heatsink contact. If one set is 5-10'c higher you possibly might have a mounting issue.

Be aware they do run very hot.

Use coretemp to check your temps
 
The Asgard said:
Check the temps across the cores if there all roughly the same you have good heatsink contact. If one set is 5-10'c higher you possibly might have a mounting issue.

Be aware they do run very hot.

Use coretemp to check your temps

The heat issue with Quads atm has totally put me off buying one.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
The heat issue with Quads atm has totally put me off buying one.

I wouldnt let it put you unless youre overclocking them. At default volts, at default speeds, theyre toasty, but the run so smoothly. I really have noticed a difference in Windows since I had mine. Far more responsive. When I ran Quad prime on mine at 3.46ghz last night just for fun, I saw the temps hit 75 degrees with my Titan cooling it. Didnt really worry me as I've seen this baby idel at nearly 50 degrees. the first couple of time I sawe these types of temps, of course I **** myself, but as times gone on, 60-70 degrees under load isn't uncommon!!! :)

For overclocking, as long as you have adequate cooling, youll be fine. Its only because we've been spoilt on the temps front by the excellent c2d's that the temps are making people egdy! Remember, the P4's were really hot, but they sold quite well!

I would definately say there is absoutely no reason a quad should'nt be considered unless its a case of cant afford one...
 
benktlottie said:
Remember, the P4's were really hot, but they sold quite well!

Who remembers the presscooks? :D

I've got a thermalright si-128 on mine with a 120mm fan, and it does idle around 45-50 and load quite regularly see's 65+ depending on fan speed. TBH as long as its not crashing my PC i'm happy. got fed up checking temps and trying to knock a few degrees off here and there with crazy cooling ideas with my last machine so just aint fussed with this one at all
 
My Q6600 is running stock 2.40ghz at 52-54oC idle and 72oC under load and my heatsink and fan is the Asus Silent Square..

I dont know if this is is an acceptable temperature but i've been a bit worried since upgrading from my C2D 6400 2.13ghz @ 3.2ghz as that was running at only 44oC stressed with the same cooler..

Thanks
 
My system has a Ultra 120 original with the same fan.
The vCore is set at 1.5v but is only 1.46v idle and 1.42v on orthos. My core temps are currently 50-54C and under orthos are 70-75c. I found that case cooling to be particularly important bringing down MB temps from 31c to 25c took 5C off the core temps. It still would make sense to take the HSF off to see if there were any bare spots.
 
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