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Very warm E6600...

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Recently picked up an E6600 and I must say its rather toasty...

Currently running at 3.2Ghz 400Mhzx8 on 1.375V and its sat at 62C load...

Thats on a Scythe Ninja B using AS5, the cooler is fitted fine, i've even removed it and reseated it with exactly the same results.

The Scythe is also lapped.

As far as I can tell the E6600 isn't concave and when I remove the Scythe the AS is spread evenly over the entire CPU.

It's all housed in an Akasa Eclipse case with good airflow.

Anyone got any ideas as to why its running so hot? would lapping the CPU help even though the IHS appears to be flat?

EDIT - Ooops can someone move to Cooling, cheers!
 
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62 isnt toasty, It's well within intel's specifcation. Intel qoute a maximum of 65degrees 'TCase' which is the temperature as measured on the outside of the integrated heat spreader!. The core temperature of the processor is always going to be 10-15 degrees higher than T'Case, and most people use coretemp/tat to read the internal sensors. I try to keep my chips below 70 as that means if I turn the house heating up, or its really hot sunny day, I'm unlikely to overhead the processor, but if you know your room temperature is very stable, even an 80 degree load temp is unlikely to cause the processor to malfunction.

Mine currently sits at around 65degrees fully loaded on both cores, and its been the most stable PC I have owned in years. (Its an E6700, which I bought pretty much the first day OcUK had any for 'shop sale')
 
Corasik said:
62 isnt toasty, It's well within intel's specifcation. Intel qoute a maximum of 65degrees 'TCase' which is the temperature as measured on the outside of the integrated heat spreader!. The core temperature of the processor is always going to be 10-15 degrees higher than T'Case, and most people use coretemp/tat to read the internal sensors. I try to keep my chips below 70 as that means if I turn the house heating up, or its really hot sunny day, I'm unlikely to overhead the processor, but if you know your room temperature is very stable, even an 80 degree load temp is unlikely to cause the processor to malfunction.

Mine currently sits at around 65degrees fully loaded on both cores, and its been the most stable PC I have owned in years. (Its an E6700, which I bought pretty much the first day OcUK had any for 'shop sale')
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Its considerably warmer than my 6300 used to run though.

My 6300 on 1.45V used to be about 58C load.

This 6600 on 1.35V is 62C load...

I know its not dangerous, its just a bit of a leap thats all! and wondered if there was a way to drop it down.

Still considering lapping the thing.
 
Well got round to lapping it today.

Knocked a couple of degree's off.

So not a massive change, but it sure looks a lot prettier and far smoother :D
 
I had very high tempertatures when I was using a Artic Cooling Freezer 7 on my 6600. It' even used to cause the machine to crash. I reseated it a number of times and it didn't improve.

So changed over two weeks ago to a Thermalight Ultra-120 Extreme + a Noctua NF-S12 120mm fan, bonded together with some Arctic Silver 5.

Saw a reduction of 15 degrees on temps straight away.

It was a nightmare trying to put the new cooler on as the Ultra is a huge beast and needs it's own plate on the back of the motherboard.

But the change it's made to the CPU temps is unbelievable. I've heard that lapping both it and the CPU will reduce temps by another 4/5 degrees.

This is based on a stock CPu with no overclocking. Though now my temps have reduced so much I may clock the 6600 up a little bit.

Taff
 
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