my temps are high

[uwishurockedthishxc]

I oc'd my e6300 to 2.55 ghz using a tuniq tower 120 and i idle at 42 dgrees celsius! the ambient tempsin my room are around 30 degrees celsius. does that seem right to you? my voltage is at 1.325. is something wrong. is my arctic silver 5 not applied right or does it just need to get more conductive. this seems awful hot for a tuniq tower. what should I do? also when im done with ocing, which i am, should I re enable the power saving options? will that drop my proc temps?

 

[BillParrish]

I oc'd my e6300 to 2.55 ghz using a tuniq tower 120 and i idle at 42 dgrees celsius! the ambient tempsin my room are around 30 degrees celsius. does that seem right to you? my voltage is at 1.325. is something wrong. is my arctic silver 5 not applied right or does it just need to get more conductive. this seems awful hot for a tuniq tower. what should I do? also when im done with ocing, which i am, should I re enable the power saving options? will that drop my proc temps?

No does seem high if you have decent case airflow.
Maybe, I suspect something is wrong. But 1.325 is stock no worries there.
hard to say, yes seems high.
remount the HS making absolutely sure it goes back on flat and solid. tighen things in a "X" patten dont go round in a circle or do one side then other and do it evenly, count turns of the nuts once you start to feel it tighten and do the same number of turns as you go back and forth in an X, dont crank it down all the way on one corner first. Each nut a couple of turns and move on going back and forth in the X and slowing and evenly tightening it up.
yes
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I would first take the side panel off of the computer and let it settle down, if you temps drop 5C or more you need more case airflow. If case temps do not drop, remount. You could need to do both. Check HS for not sitting all way down becuse its sitting on something, rare but its happened.

 

[unclewebb]

With the information you've provided you can't jump to any conclusions.

What software are you using to report your core voltage? The number you set it to in the bios isn't what you'll get in Windows at idle or while running Orthos.

Idle temps are not nearly as important or meaningful as full load temps while running Orthos.

That's a pretty mild overclock considering what these processors are capable of with a Tuniq. Why not at least run it at a FSB of 400 MHz x 7 = 2800 MHz. At this setting you'll be able to run your memory at DDR2-800 speed which even cheap DDR2 memory can run at with a nice safe 2.1 volts.

If CPUz or CoreTemp 0.95 reports your processor as a revision L2 and you are using CoreTemp 0.95 to report your core temperatures then they are likely being reported 15C too high.

The only important, fully Intel documented, temperature information for a Core processor comes by setting CoreTemp 0.95 like this:

That will tell you how much head room you have before your processor will start to throttle or become too hot. When this reading gets down to zero, your processor is running too hot and is no longer running within the Intel specifications. In the above picture there is 50C of head room still left so there's no need to worry about Core temperatures, especially with the mild overclock and the default CPU voltage that you're using.

Is your computer reporting something similar to 50C of head room at idle? Given your ambient temperature and your core voltage, it should be.

 

[uwishurockedthishxc]

ok im using core temp and when i hit that thing im at 49 celsius to tjunction at idle. under load im at 40. and without the side panel on I am down to 35 celsius in my case on normal settings. should i add a case fan? do i need to worry about these temps. can i overclock it higher?

 

[BillParrish]

It is safe to go until it reads 10C until Tjunction. Yes it seems more fans would help, as large of one as will fit. It does not have to be high speed but if something larger than the standard 80mm will go in there (look for more than one set of mounting holes ) get the largerst you can. Pulling cool outside air into your PC is the key to good cooling and good cooling is the key to good overclocking.

No idea what you have for fans now.

hmm centurian case, thats decent.

k, 120 in the back (good !) 80mm in front (not good)

Ahh tuniq tower ,

OK if it were me, and keep in mind I am crazy, i would put a bay cooler in the lower 5 1/4 bays, they are probally not being used anyway and if you notice that would shoot a stream of nice cool room air directly into your turniq . Something like this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185020


Whatever you do, that low speed 80mm small fan in the front of the case is killing you.

 

[uwishurockedthishxc]

It is safe to go until it reads 10C until Tjunction. Yes it seems more fans would help, as large of one as will fit. It does not have to be high speed but if something larger than the standard 80mm will go in there (look for more than one set of mounting holes ) get the largerst you can. Pulling cool outside air into your PC is the key to good cooling and good cooling is the key to good overclocking.

No idea what you have for fans now.

hmm centurian case, thats decent.

k, 120 in the back (good !) 80mm in front (not good)

Ahh tuniq tower ,

OK if it were me, and keep in mind I am crazy, i would put a bay cooler in the lower 5 1/4 bays, they are probally not being used anyway and if you notice that would shoot a stream of nice cool room air directly into your turniq . Something like this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185020


Whatever you do, that low speed 80mm small fan in the front of the case is killing you.

and where does that fan go?

 

[unclewebb]

I run my Core 2 Duo at 3600 MHz, 7 days a week, without any intake fan. For me, cool is good but quiet is better.

Your processor still has lots of room for more overclocking without any worries about it running too hot. You can add more fans but if you've reached your overclocking goal or are close to it and if you don't intend to raise the cpu core voltage then there's really no reason to. Sounds like it's working good.