Stupid Q6600 core temps

Jon1818 said:
Coretemp is innacurate, your better taking readings from Bios.
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properly totally and utterly wrong! BIOS' are rubbish at temps! Mine reckons my cpu idles under ambient which is literally impossible!

anyway @ the OP.. have the cores always been like this? Sounds like you have a bad mount either of the block you're using to cool the cpu or maybe even the IHS onto the cores underneath which would be very unfortunate seeing as lapping it just invalidated your warranty.

Coretemp (the correct version for your cpu/mobo/os) real temp or everest will give you a good idea of the temperature and all are separate to the mobo iirc so your bios shouldn't make any difference unless its pumping more vcore into some cores but I can't see that.
 
ok i lapped my cpu ages ago and on my previous boards all cores have been close to each other give or take 2c which is normal so I have never ever had the temp problem only since putting it on this board.

I have stripped it like 6-7 times checking everything over and over again and still getting the same results. At first I thought it was my water block so I placed the normal intel heatsink fan on and still the same core 0 was 20c hotter than the other 3 cores?
 
Franco_cov said:
ok i lapped my cpu ages ago and on my previous boards all cores have been close to each other give or take 2c which is normal so I have never ever had the temp problem only since putting it on this board.

I have stripped it like 6-7 times checking everything over and over again and still getting the same results. At first I thought it was my water block so I placed the normal intel heatsink fan on and still the same core 0 was 20c hotter than the other 3 cores?
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can you check the chip in another board?

thats all terribly odd, seeing as you're using a temp measurement that bypasses the BIOS (I think, happy to be corrected) it shouldn't be a software issue.

You sure there's not a mobo heatpipe getting in the way of the heatsink making a good contact or perhaps the mobo is bending? Using a baclplate for whatever you have?
 
no mate no bending I just literally sat the intel HSF n top of the chip with no paste (i know it was going to be hotter because of the fan and no paste) but it still showed core 0 20c higher than the other 3 cores as I first thought something not sitting right or water block maybe defective but obviously not. Nothing was obstructing it :(

"It was perfect in my previous asus striker II motherboard which i changed over to this board 2 days ago" until then never had a problem
 
final thing to try is a different mobo but frankly I think it sounds like a knackered chip.

Has it ever overheated to the extent that it might have melted the stuff that attaches the IHS to the cores?

Thats all I can think, these are 2 dual core chips together so there's no reason only 1 core would malfunction afaik, all I can think is poor/no contact.

What happens with load?
 
no because just like removing stock heatsinks off stuff and putting them back on when it breaks unless you confess there's no way the mfr can tell, thats especially the case with cpu clocking.

There's no way they can tell that you have clocked it, however a shiny copper IHS kinda gives it away that you've lapped it.
 
It does sound like a buggered chip. Q6600 has come down in price allot so perhaps you should go out and buy another. If it happens again, you could probably sell it. Especially if it has a nice vid.
 
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