Temps on the e6600

rickfin

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I'm currently running my e6600(tuniq tower) at 9x400 with 1.41875 v set in the bios(shows 1.41 in everest and drops to 1.36 when using orthos). My temps are 40-44C idle and 63-64C in small ffts orthos. Are these temps/vcore low enough for long period 24/7 use? I'm going to buy an extra fan for my Antec 900 to blow air to the cpu so I will probably end up 60c in load. Would a zalman fan bracket with 92mm fan help if it blows to the cpu? Where can you actually mount the bracket?
 
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Wasn't stable after all?It failed orthos after 3 hours. Now trying with 1.4250 vcore max temp in orthos 64 C. Any opinions from temps and how could I mount a fan to blow air to the tuniq tower heatsink/cpu?
 
Personally I wouldn't want to run my CPU over 60C max when loaded... mine runs 40-44C idle and upto 50 underload but I'm only running it at 3gig and currently have thermal management setup to give a balance between noise and temp...

I'm tempted to give 400x9 a whirl on this E6600 but I don't really wanna increase the vcore.
 
I can get 8x400=3200 with stock vcore 1.25 max temp 50. I'm going to get an Antec spotcool to blow air to the heatsink so I can get 60C.
 
thats only 3200 tho... most E6600 will do upto 3.15 on stock vcore give or take ~50MHz depending on quality... unfortunatly my board only lets me use the 6 and 9 multis on my CPU and afaik nowhere has a place to directly enter/select the ratio :( (have to trick it into using 6)
 
Currently orthos running 4 hours without errors. Maybe I can go higher with stock voltage. I have only tried 3400 with it and it failed orthos. I going to have it @9x400 with 1.4250 when I get the Antec spotcool.
Edit:The antec spotcool has 3 pin power connector but I don't have any 3 pin connector in my ds3 mobo. Can I install it to the sys_fan which has three pins and the one that's left out is speed control because the fan it shelf has a speed control, right?
 
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I couldn't get 400x9 stable enough to boot into windows on my setup using 1.425 vcore but your milage may vary.

You probably can do - same the CPU fan its a 4 pin header but older fans only have 3.
 
Orthos failed after 9 hours and 14 minutes. Do you think it's stable enough? I'm gonna raise vcore a notch to 1.43125 and see if I can do 12 hours.
 
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You know what sucked for me? When I first used the stock cooler that came with the E6600, Using the thermal grease that came on there already, I was seeing 26-34C idle temps. Then I had to remove the fan so I re-applied some cooler master compound. It now sits at 42 idle and 65c under strain. I've tried re-applying the compound but same result.
I've decided to just buy an af 7 pro and stick that straight on and not mess about!
 
dont up your vcore anymore , have a good gaming session on it and if its ok e.g no bsod/crashing id say that was stable enough for me . some of these stress tests surpass most things your gonna ever chuck at your pc in real life .

also monitoe temps if you can with coretemp

cheers
 
Gave mine a real going over tonight with a hand from raju and got 3.6 stable eventually but it took a 1.48vcore (actual I think) tho due to droop I had to set it in the bios to 1.325 (default) +0.187.5 (1.51)

Pic 1
 
Yeah the droop is the real issue. It shows only 1.36v on the load with 1.4250 and 1.43125 set in the bios. If the droop wasn't so big I could put much less and be happy with it.
Edit: Maybe I'm just happy with the nine hours with 1.4250 v. Under 1.425 orthos was only stable for 3 hours so 1.425 should be fine for me.
 
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With 1.43125 I can run 12h orthos. And I also tried 3dmark01 and orthos at the same time and it's still stable. Maybe I should with better stability the difference in the vcore is so little 0.00625v. Or what do you think? Is this good for long time use?
 
Below 1.5v on the conroe _shouldn't_ be a problem in the long term, you'd have to be unlucky, aslong as your cooling is upto the job... personally I'd be more concerned about burning out the north bridge.

Although I'm not a fan personally of running anything over volted...
 
The Nb isn't hot to touch(maybe slightly warmer than my hand). My case antec 900 has pretty good air flow so I think I'm fine on that part. Maybe I just put the Antec spotcool to blow air to the Nb if it doesn't make any difference to the cpu.
 
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I'm getting getting 50c idle/58-60 load in TAT at 3200mhz 8x400 and having to run at 1.4 vcore read from NV monitor with a Ninja with fan on full

can get chip up too 3.4 8x425 but have too use 1.5vcore and load temps are 70c+

do you think this is just a bad chip to take so much vcore to get it going?
 
Temp does seem rather high.

This screenie is my system running folding@home

E6600_temp.jpg


HS is ninja mine with 120mm fan

Dunc
 

As you can see from this pic that speedfan doesn't show the actual core temp. And pretty much everything else isn't right except the vcore. ZX-10R, those temps looks about same that I get with my tuniq tower with the same voltages. I don't know how much the frequency affects the temps so you should maybe get better temps. You chip must be a bad one because I can do 8x400 orthos stable with the default vcore 1.25 max temp 50.
EDIT: Your idle temp is very high..
EDIT2:My bad it's meant to be 8x400 heh..
 
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