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    Motherboard LAN issue with overclock

    Hi it's me again, the guy with the stubbornly hot Q6600. I decided to try overclocking my CPU since it's pretty much the last model I'll get on this motherboard and I want to make the best of it. I have an Asus P5B-VM SE mobo and I changed the FSB without touching voltage(I don't even think the...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I swapped the cooler with this. I made it blow air away from the back and then also placed a case fan at the back, so fresh air is drawn from outside and blown onto the heatsink, and then the fan at the middle picks it up and pushes it further to the front. After 2:30 hours of warmup, Idle...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I ran the program. And I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. I looked up google for threads on other forums and none mention a specific way to use it nor is there much on how to interpret the results. What do I do with the results of this test?
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I cannot complete a prime95 test for realtemp calibration because after 1 minute of running the temperature hits 72 degrees and I refuse to let it go further. I wish there was a way to change the duration of the test realtemp wants to attempt because I'm afraid I won't survive into prime95 small...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    My previous cooler, which was able to keep an E5400 within 45-58 degrees idle to load, was letting my Q6600 idle at 70 degrees...... Could I be dealing with a broken sensor? Btw, regarding the difference between CORE temps and TCASE temp.... shouldn't the cores be HOTTER than tcase because...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I can't check BIOS at this moment but both CPU-Z and Speedfan are reporting Vcore around 1.2-1.24v. I took the heatsink off. AGAIN. And I wiped the CPU clean. I then smudged what was left of it into the thinnest possible layer on the sink's contact surface, reducing its volume to less than half...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    From what you say I should be within the safe range, even though the temps are hotter than they should be. I've so far removed the old and new fans several times and each time the paste covers the socket uniformly and a little of it has pooled over the edges where it's been squeezed out. There...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I was indeed using speedfan. CoreTemp reports 50-52 core temps on all four cores while speedfan reports these to be around 10 degrees lower. Speedfan also reports CPU at 57 whereas CoreTemp does not appear to have an overall sensor. This is all happening while I have a skype call running so it's...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    So what should I look for to see if I've done a proper job mounting it? And from your experience, how hot can they go before there's trouble?
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    I mounted the sink as well as I possibly could. There's a frame that only fits in one specific position and it was very firm. Then 2 screws which are always properly alligned with the socket and need to be screwed in as tightly as possible. Which I did. It's not the usual system where the sink...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    Bought one of these. Applied AS5 instead of the stock paste and reassembled. Added another fan to blow on the new one. Closed up the case and let the room warm up. 54 degrees idle and after about 6 minutes in prime95 it hits 72 degrees. Let it warm up for a little and tried again. Hit 72 in just...
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    Q6600 running hot with Arctic Silver 5 and open case

    Got myself a Q6600 for my aging motherboard today. At 8GB RAM and quite decent specs I just don't feel like changing it. My fan is running at maximum speed. It is almost winter. I used Arctic Silver 5 paste. I have an Arctic Cooling 7 heatsink on it. The CPU fan is set to max speed from BIOS...
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    Active PFC on PSU to fix restarts with power fluctuations?

    This is an old, old issue which I have asked about before, can't remember if on this forum or another. So basically I have a computer setup with an UPS which means MOST power fluctuations and outages don't affect my computer. BUT every now and then one gets through and my computer restarts...
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    WD 320GB staying at 53 °C even after adding fan and relocating

    They're not stacked. They have an inch between them. And my "problem-drive" is 1 inch above the DVD-RW, far away from the other drives, plus it has a fan underneath. And it STILL reaches 53 degrees.
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    WD 320GB staying at 53 °C even after adding fan and relocating

    Yes, the drive feels hot to the touch indeed. After the computer is shut off it cannot be held with bare hands until a few minutes later. My other drives are at 44 and 49 degrees. One does not support temp monitoring. Is there any risk at this temp?
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