Rescuing old system (q6600)

Grafter67

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I've inherited an old Q6600 system, popped in 8GB of ram, a samsung SSD and a 750Ti grpahics card and it's flying fine but sitting 70 degrees plus at idle with the stock cooler it came with. The only 775 cooler I have is a scythe copper ninja which as an auld guy with bad eyes and fingers would be a pain to take off the MB it's on.

Should I grab a £10 cooler (advice appreciated) and/or sell/recycle the copper ninja that cost plenty back in the day?
 
Check the stock cooler is clipped down properly, and that the plastic screw bits aren't damaged, sometimes they can look like they are on properly but one of the legs might not be in right.
I made this error when I rebuilt a 775 system for my nan.

Put some new thermal paste on it too.

That's the cheap/free things I would try first.

Also is the Q6600 overclocked? If so a stock cooler will really struggle and you should put a better cooler on it.

If it's a 105watt chip it's going to run warm anyway with a standard cooler, but not as warm as yours is.

The real solution would be to put that scythe ninja on it.
 
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Have you replaced the old TIM? Just removing, cleaning and re-installing with new TIM may solve your problems.

As already said, the best solution would be to use the Ninja .. much better cooler and quieter cooler
 
Thanks. I've replaced the old paste with arctic silver which has helped by a few degrees, but not enough so I'll try the ninja next.

I was able to run it fanless on a e2160, but I'm sure I have the fan clips somewhere.
 
Grafter67 said:
Thanks. I've replaced the old paste with arctic silver which has helped by a few degrees, but not enough so I'll try the ninja next.

I was able to run it fanless on a e2160, but I'm sure I have the fan clips somewhere.
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Just zip tie some fans on it if you cant find the clips, it'll do the job at least :D
 
e2160 is a 65watt processor, so that will be why... The q6000 uses almost twice as much power, hence why it's running hot without a better cooler.
 
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