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Appropriate X3350 temps?

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acetken

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Should a 4-core 42nm X3350 (Q9450) with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and Arctic Cooling MX-2 thermal goo be running as high as 70 degrees under load? That's the hottest core only, rest run 4-7 degrees cooler.
2 Orthos running on 2 cores each. Temps displayed by CoreTemp .99.

I've been getting lockups when I game, so I assume it's because of summer temperatures crossed with the heat output from my 9800 GTX SSC and the seemingly insane core CPU temps. My GPU tops out at about 76 degrees in gaming, or so says EVGA precision 1.10.
I have a Cosmos S case and I THOUGHT I had good airflow... But the CPU (Hottest core only - rest are about 9 degrees lower on idle) idles at around 58 degrees. From what I've seen, isn't that higher than most people's LOAD temps?
 
Hi Acetken, I'm getting similar temps on my X3350, similar chip, at 3.6GHz. I also have one core 6 degrees hotter than the other three. Please tell us what you have your chip clocked at and also the core volts. I'm running a scythe zipang with an powerful 14cm fan and core voltage set at 1.32.
 
Try reading temperatures with Realtemp instead... should be more accurate.

My X3350 is around 30-33c idle in windows, and around 50-55c under load.
 
Thats hot for being stock. I would try reseating your heatsink and see if that helps.
 
Yup,

That's really hot for stock and at those volts. I thought you had your chip OC'd and also DO use realtemp. You'll see a consistent 10 degree difference between Coretemp and Realtemp.

Coretemp, does the same thing with my E8400 as well, it reads the Tjunction temperature as 105 for all 45nm processors, but the Tjunction temperature that Intel specifies is actually 95 degrees.

You do need to check your HSF to make sure it is properly seated. Also don't use too much heatsink compound. It will make your temps worse. Even though Arctic silver and such compounds take time to settle in, your temps shouldn't be that high.
 
I reseated things, but it didn't make a difference. Realtemp says all my cores are 10 degrees C cooler than CoreTemp. Here's my current temps at idle. (Keep in mind I had to disable the extended halt state or the mobo freezes)
C0=48
C1=35
C2=35
C3=48

I hit "Test Sensors" in Real Temp and it came back with 0-4-4-0. That bad? Anything else I can try?
 
Try running your system with the case door open. See what kind of temps you get. I doubt that your HSF is not flat or something like that, but maybe you should check for that too.
 
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