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Conroe temperatures?

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BiGG_MiDDLe_LeGG

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Hi everyone

Has anyone seen the temps and power consumption of the Conroe CPUs? I would like to purchase one but if it runs hot like my current Prescott, then I may reconsider.

Texas is hot :(

Thanks in advanced!
 
Well over at at xtremesystem forum, people are having a massive hard time keeping the e6700 and x6800 temps down. Load at default vcore is getting around the 80sC. However, they think it may be the temp misreporting. This is with air cooling.
 
magnuspah said:
Well over at at xtremesystem forum, people are having a massive hard time keeping the e6700 and x6800 temps down. Load at default vcore is getting around the 80sC. However, they think it may be the temp misreporting. This is with air cooling.
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Well that's not good news:(
 
Yea no kidding thats real bad news. Thats also the reason I try to wait for a second or third version so they have time to work some of the bugs out :)
 
I can believe the misreporting and it being more of a motherboard issue. I recently installed a Bad Axe rev 304 to be conroe ready, and my Pentium 830 which had been reading in the 50s to low 60s depending on load on ASUS motherboard was suddenly reading 60s to low 70s under same usage conditions.
 
dagon11985 said:
How are people able to OC conroes to 3.5 ghz on air if thats the case?
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Well, the good news is that some are being overclocked from 2.4ghz (e6600) to 3.4-3.6Ghz on stock air cooling and stock vcore...pretty impressive.
 
The chips can't be that hot, if we take the TDP reported by Intel (not literally of course), but ballpark the figure to the TDP they released for the Prescott, we should get a MUCH lower number.
 
gwai lo said:
The chips can't be that hot, if we take the TDP reported by Intel (not literally of course), but ballpark the figure to the TDP they released for the Prescott, we should get a MUCH lower number.
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Correct, the temps are being reported about 20C too high from the dudes mobo on XS.
 
Rare1 said:
Correct, the temps are being reported about 20C too high from the dudes mobo on XS.
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Has anyone thought to take a self contained fully calibrated thermal probe and test the temps that way. I've never seen a motherbaord report correct temperatures. The one I'm using now is about 10C too high.
 
ryan_975 said:
Has anyone thought to take a self contained fully calibrated thermal probe and test the temps that way. I've never seen a motherbaord report correct temperatures. The one I'm using now is about 10C too high.
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There will be other boards and with luck, they'll use better equipment or better micro code. Once I had 3 computers with the same WinBond chip. These were AOpen AX4C, Gigabyte i850E 8IHX or something and Abit IC7-G Max. The Aopen and Gigabyte were very close reading all 3 P4s, a 1.7GHz Willy, 2GHz NW and 2.4GHz (400MHz FSB from a Dell). The ABit and Gigabyte, are still being used BTW, consistantly read all 3 processors 12 to 16C high depending on room temp at IDLE. Under Load was a real joke. Once it showed the 2GHz Northwood that Idled at 32C most of the time, at 46C and my 2.6C at 56C at stock idle when the Aopen showed 49C while overclocked to 3.26GHz on air and 57C under load. I used a CNPS 7000Cu cooler. Newer BIOS did change some of the results but still left it reading higher than anything else.

The folks at Motherboard Monitor warned about this as well. I was on Abit's forum while they did nothing and said. "We're right and everyone else is wrong".

I'll repost this at XS.
 
ryan_975 said:
Has anyone thought to take a self contained fully calibrated thermal probe and test the temps that way. I've never seen a motherbaord report correct temperatures. The one I'm using now is about 10C too high.
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Yeah they definitely need to check temps with a thermal probe because its obvious that temps are off. These low TDP 65nm chips can't be getting that hot on good aircooling.
 
So I guess there are no accurate temperatures out there then?

Guess I'll wait until they hit retail then :=P
 
BiGG_MiDDLe_LeGG said:
So I guess there are no accurate temperatures out there then?

Guess I'll wait until they hit retail then :=P
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Yup, not just the monitoring chip but the code used to process the data generated by it. This is easy to screw up.
 
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