These Q6600 temps can't be right?

[aaronhowe]

Hi all
A couple of days ago I got a new rig. All is well now after a bit of playing with the RAM voltages but I have noticed that my Q6600 temps seem very low in the bios.

The motherboard is a MSI P7N 780i diamond and the cooler is the tuniq tower 120. The Q6600 is currently clocked at 3Ghz and i am getting idle temps of 25c and load temps of 28c after playing crysis for an hour. These temps seem really low to me so i'm not sure if it is a problem with the MB or if its normal.

Also forgot to mention that the case is the Antec p182.

Any idea anyone?

 

[aaronhowe]

Ok will do? Do you know if they work ok in Vista 64bit?

 

[aaronhowe]

Not sure. Whats the easiest way to tell.

 

[aaronhowe]

Excellent thanks guys I'll try it when I get back from work. I'll post up the info I get back.

 

[aaronhowe]

Right did some tests last night on this. The CPU is a revision G0 and it idles at between 28c-30c across the 4 cores running at 3Ghz with a 1.264 core voltage. At load it jumps to between 39c-40c across the 4 cores. That seems a little more normal.

So if the temps are as they are above what sort of overclock can I get above the current 3Ghz I'm running do you recon?

 

[aaronhowe]

under load condition was done using a burn in test for 5 mins which maxed all cores out to 100%.