Temps on L2 6300

mwtb

mwtb

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Since I built the machine in my sig, I've been baffled by the temperatures I've been seeing. After lapping the CPU and Tuniq, rebuilding into an Eclipse and re-seating at least half a dozen times with different TIMs (now on AS5), I still see idle temps of 45-50 degrees C in TAT and they head over 70 under load. At stock it still hits 65 degrees under load.

Earlier, I was looking at CoreTemp, and I noticed that it was giving my Tjunction as 100 degrees. Now this is the value for Allendales, and is 15 degrees over the Conroe delta point of 85 degrees. After a quick look around the web, I'm not the only person to have noticed this with the L2 stepping C2D chips and it seems that the software may well be misreading them and showing temps 15 degrees above the actual reading.

I grabbed Everest, and it shows my cores idling at 28-33 degrees and hitting 55 degrees under load. This seems far more in line with reports from people with similar setups and also agrees with what I'd expect considering the temps I'm reading on my heatsink with an IR thermometer.

Of course, I could be suffering from a case of wishful thinking, but it seems to make sense. Does anyone have any more information on this?
 
i think that i am suffering the same thing.. i have overclocked my e6300 (same setup as you) to only 1.925Ghz (hardly anything above stock) and coretemp and intel tat is reporting anything from 36-37 to 43c on idle !! mine is hardly above stock yet...

also i have a Noctua cooler (meant to be one of the best) also resitted my cooler and used arctic silver.. so i just don't get it....
 
Hmm... well it turns out that Lavalys have fixed their temps in Everest and they now agree with TAT and CoreTemp. However, surely this means that an L2 stepping E6300 or E6400 can be expected to run 10 or so degrees hotter than the older models without worrying. So an L2 stepping CPU could run 75-80 degrees on the cores under load before causing any concern.
 
Big.Wayne said:
L2 e6300 you say? have INTEL replaced the (Conroe-2MB) B2 e6300/e6400 with L2 (Allendale) revisions already?
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ive only just got my E6300 and in CPUz it says conroe-2MB, i have no idea y you are getting those high temps, i dont even get that on stock cooler when overclocked to 3.04
 
I am running an E6300 in a Shuttle at the moment.

Shuttle XPC Tools reports 51 degrees and Coretemp reports 56 degrees. TAT doesn't work on this Shuttle.

Thats under mild load (Folding at home on both cores, 100% usage)

It rises a bit under under Orthos on 10.

Stock speeds at the moment as well, busy on another project.
 
Before the thread gets swamped with people reporting temps, just to clarify that I'm talking about the L2 stepping 6300 only. You can see the stepping in CPU-Z towards the bottom on the right-hand side.

From this post on the Intel forums it seems clear that none of the temperature monitoring programs that use a fixed tjMax point for C2D chips are going to be correct in an absolute sense - and that goes for TAT too.

More investigation needed.
 
mwtb said:
it seems clear that none of the temperature monitoring programs that use a fixed tjMax point for C2D chips are going to be correct in an absolute sense - and that goes for TAT too
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I had an L2 e4300 and TAT worked fine as did the 'new' coretemp.

Your the first person I heard of that has an L2 stepping e6300? they have always been B2 up to now but reports suggested these would be phased out and replaced by L2 Allendales?
 
Have a B2 here as well, running 2.45Ghz at stock vcore and idle temp is at about 43 degrees idle in a rather warm room.
 
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