What's wrong with the stock Intel fan?

Emphacy

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Okay, so I've always used the stock Intel fan, on all of my processors, particularly Socket 775 ones.

To me they are excellent at cooling, assuming you get one of the high quality heatsinks, I've had 2 processors come with the crap ones, and a few with the copper based and larger Intel heatsinks (The good ones).

They all seem to do a great Job to me, I've got my E6300 at the moment overclocked to 3.4GHz and on idle it's around 28 degrees celcius, under load it's around 40 degrees celcius.

I'm going to be installing my Q6600 as soon as I get some TIP, and look at some possible CPU coolers, although i'm contemplating sticking with the stock heatsink.

Really, what is wrong with the stock heatsink? It seems to do a great job at cooling to me, even my mates Q9550 is Overclocked on the stock heatsink and it never goes over 45/50 degrees celcius.
 
ViRuS2k said:
Q9550 is Overclocked on the stock heatsink and it never goes over 45/50 degrees celcius.

LMAO
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I don't mind you having a little laugh about it, but it is in fact correct. I wouldn't lie about such a temperature, it would be stupid.
This is a general serious question, otherwise I wouldn't have asked in the first place.

These temperatures I have seen is the exact reason i'm asking, do take that into account.
 
On a dual core, it was pretty good and reasonably quiet tbh. They are more than adequate to deal with a little overclocking as well.
 
okay, I use EVEREST Ultimate, and it reads my CPU Temp as 28 degrees, coreTemp reads it as 32 degrees, which I guess is correct.
I just got my friend to coreTemp his Q9550, just then via facebook, as he also uses Everest, his says 52 degrees, idle.

In any case, this is still not that high, for it being overclocked to 3.4GHz using the stock cooler, I've seen reviews of people getting this with aftermarket coolers. If no one is going to answer my question seriously, other than 'stock heatsinks suck' then you're really not helping. The readings we get prove otherwise.
 
Sounds like you have some good cool running chips there :)

1. When you say "under load" what do you mean?
2. What are the ambient temperatures? Is the room airconditioned etc?

Most importantly is what you consider to be load. Coretemp should tell you the temperature of each core on the processor. 32° sounds like an idle temp.

Try something that loads both cores to 100% CPU for 30 minutes and see what sort of temps you get. You could try Lynx, Intel Burn Test, Prime95

Then do some screenshots with Coretemp running, everest running and the load tool running and lets check it out.

Good Luck
 
Idle temps don't tell us much what are they under load, that is under a 100% load? That is the reason people use after market coolers costing up to £70 for the NH-D14, under load they keep the temps 10's of degrees cooler than the stock items...
 
Emphacy said:
correct.
I just got my friend to coreTemp his Q9550, just then via facebook, as he also uses Everest, his says 52 degrees, idle.
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52 degrees idle is not a good temp, any aftermarker cooller will take 10/15 degrees off that.

Get a load temperature, and you'll see it rocket
 
Okay here's my results from CoreTemp and Intel Burn Test, I already had Intel Burn Test so I used that...

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My room temp, according to my alarm clock is 22 celcius. I'd get my friend to do his results too if he hadn't gone to work. It did go up by around 20 degrees, but by the looks of the temps I'm getting, not sure if it'll be worth buying a new cooler for my Q6600 when the stock heatsink doesn't seem too bad.

EDIT: The little sidebar thing, with multicolour text is EVEREST.
 
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Run 20 IBT runs at maximum and screenshot the temps after that. Oh and I know its already been said, but 50+'c at idle is not very good at all, thats actually slightly worrying.
 
smeaney said:
Run 20 IBT runs at maximum and screenshot the temps after that. Oh and I know its already been said, but 50+'c at idle is not very good at all, thats actually slightly worrying.
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Coretemp says both his CPU cores are at 100% load ;)


I myself ran my E8500 at 3800mhz using the intel stock large cooler for about 2 years 24/7 with no problems..
 
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will13 said:
my Q9400 usually idles around 9-14c according to my Asus PC suite
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LOL - 9 degrees !

Sub-ambient temps are not possible with air or watercooling ( which still uses air to cool )

Unless this pc is in a shed on a very high mountain

Screeny please
 
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Yeap my Asus software isn't very good, Realtemp showing 21c on 2 cores and 37c on the others while Asus PC Probe 2 is saying 13c
 
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