Whats the max safe temp for a Q6600?

Metalface Mark · 11 Jun 2008 at 17:25

Ive had my Q6600 for a while and it seems reasonable, its prime stable burning all 4 cores at 3.4ghz using 1.45v, but the temperatures hit close to 80 degrees.

My pc is designed for silence (its in a living rooom), so only has a Arctic Freezer and a single 120mm silent fan.

Is this temp too much for the processor?

It idles about 50C.

Cob · 11 Jun 2008 at 17:27

Close to 80c when Priming won't cause any damage. And that'll be as warm as it'll ever get.

Metalface Mark · 11 Jun 2008 at 17:36

Sweet, thanks very much

virdee2 · 12 Jun 2008 at 12:48

isnt 80 degrees a bit extreme? i thought a lot of cpu's cut out after close to that temp?

dont wanna second guess anyone but i would be worried about that high a temp.

Pneumonic · 12 Jun 2008 at 13:03

na for prime 80c is fine on a Q6600, wouldnt push it much higher tho

Greebo · 12 Jun 2008 at 13:37

virdee2 said:
isnt 80 degrees a bit extreme? i thought a lot of cpu's cut out after close to that temp?

dont wanna second guess anyone but i would be worried about that high a temp.

Well, that's true, a lot fall over. On prime95 if a certain core on mine hits 73 degrees, if fails but cpu's will vary.

mp260767 · 12 Jun 2008 at 13:40

seems a bit high for idle, is the pc in a fairly warm place ?

is the airflow as good as it can be in the case, take the side off and see if the temps drop.

maybe look at reducing the overclock and see what sort of temp drops you get, personally i don't like to go over 60.

Greebo · 12 Jun 2008 at 14:49

mp260767 said:
seems a bit high for idle, is the pc in a fairly warm place ?

is the airflow as good as it can be in the case, take the side off and see if the temps drop.

maybe look at reducing the overclock and see what sort of temp drops you get, personally i don't like to go over 60.

Always worth trying but he is putting 1.45v through the cpu and only has an Artic cooler and is probably in a warm room being the living room.

mp260767 · 12 Jun 2008 at 15:14

Greebo said:
Always worth trying but he is putting 1.45v through the cpu and only has an Artic cooler and is probably in a warm room being the living room.

yeah that was my reason for asking about it being in a warm place, never quite certain of where people have there pc

and just wondering how much he loses on the overclock by dropping the voltage though it, better temps for a drop to 3.2 would be worth it imo.

Greebo · 12 Jun 2008 at 15:22

mp260767 said:
yeah that was my reason for asking about it being in a warm place, never quite certain of where people have there pc

and just wondering how much he loses on the overclock by dropping the voltage though it, better temps for a drop to 3.2 would be worth it imo.

Yeah I agree and he probably would never notice the difference anyway except in benchies.

Even under water I run mine at 3.4Ghz day to day. Only needs 1.4v so stays cool. AT 3.8Ghz I need to put 1.65v in bios and my idle temps are 50 then.

virdee2 · 12 Jun 2008 at 16:59

obviously if the cpu is running fine anyway, the temp probably isnt a problem anyway so in the end there isnt much to be worried about. He may as well leave the overclock as is if really wanted to.

1kiwi · 12 Jun 2008 at 20:35

as above, mine fails mid 70's. I couldn't get the temp higher if i wanted to

Spartacus · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:52

Just out of interest, are the Q6600's that fail in the mid 70s GO ones?

My B3 is solid as a rock as long as it doesnt go over 80c. just wondering if the B3's can take more heat without losing stability, afterall they do run a lot hotter anyway.. so they need to stay stable at hotter temps.

WJA96 · 13 Jun 2008 at 01:05

The CPU's don't start to throttle until they hit somwhere is the region of 100C. If it's falling over before that then it's far more likely your chipset is overheating. I have a passively cooled system that idles at 70C and loads at 95, but it's running 24/7 for well over a year now.