When is 100% not 100%? (temps Q sort of)

Soldato
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OK, I'm just trying to make sure my cpu is healthy..

I have an E6700 running at 360x10 at 1.435v. Its never given me any problems with stability, its under water in its own loop with an EK block and a PA120.1 with 1 fan on 5v through a fan controller.

It idles in a pretty hot house at about 30-35 and if I run orthos it loads to about 45 and slowly rises to 50 as the water heats up (unless I whack the fan up) in the task manager it shows 100% of both cores.

However if I run the intel tat load thingy it shows 100% of both cores again but the temps go to mid 50s and rise to about 60?

So what is 100%??

I'm sort of bothered that the temps are highish too but I've done everthing I can to reseat/change the amount of force on the block/reapply as5 etc and I'm no w/c n00b.. plus its knocked nearly 20c off the idle temp and 10 degrees off the load.. and to be fair at 5v the system is basically passive so I probably shouldn't be suprised.
 
yeah I suppose, I was just slightly suprised that there is such a massive temp difference between one 100% and another!
 
heh, well one things for sure, I'm happy with my temps now I'm justabout beating folks with high end air. Thats just what I'd expect with mid range water.

Just a note to the chap above me, your intel cpu will throttle not break if it overheats so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
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