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E6600 temps !? Whats safe?

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Shocky

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Hi, using E6600, Gigacrap DS4 and G.Skill HZ memory... I can prime at 3400MHz with 1.45vcore but its getting hot... Bios is reading 55C and everest is reading 66C on both cores at load.... no idea which is correct... Is this safe ? :(

Using SI-120 with 2000rpm fan. can you guys also recommend air cooling which might perform better then this... :confused:
 
I do think that your Vcore is a tad high and may be your sensor s are slightly off or the thermal paste has not settled or even your HSF is properly not mounted. Maybe turning your fan around might make a difference

Check on the core 2 duo leaderboard and check with people with a similar set up like you.
I have tried a Freezer Pro which performed quite well with a E6300 without a fan after a overclcok of 1ghz.

I have bought a Ninja plus sythe which is quite common on the leaderboard and most people are happy with.

Make sure everything is mounted properly and feel are the fins hot(on the HSF) when its on load.

After overclocking i have seen people at 60c on load but you have one which is 66c which could mean alarming.

If you have PC wizard it usually tells you CPU throttling temp , check with that, download it from www.cpuid.com.

Sorry but this is the only advice i can come up with.
 
Just had a look at the leaderboard and your Vcore is right , there is this guy called brahmzy on the leaderboard with the same HSF and also a gigabyte , send him a pm , he will be happy in assisting you with the temps you should be getting.
 
The heatsink is mounted as tight as its gonna go.... Using ceramique...Might try another cpu cooler.... I don't think this is coping with the heat... :(
 
Note that it seems that quite a few Conroe motherboards are reporting inaccurate temps, on BadAxe mobos it can be as far as 20C off the actual value.
You could try the 'core temp' program, and see if it reports anything different.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103638

As for Allendales/Conroes, ideally you should try to stay below 55C, the official max spec is 61C.
 
coretemp reports the same as everest... :( 50C idle, 66C Load. I thought the SI-120 was ment to be good...
 
I've backed off to 3300 for now... Might order the Scythe Ninja Plus.. Is it really that much better then the SI-120 ?
 
Hey - congrats at getting your E6600 stable @ 3.4GHz with only 1.45VCore. That's better than the average retail E6600. Mine takes a lot more than that.

I had a DS3 - not a DS4...but regardless your temps are very high for that amount of voltage. I have a TR Ultra-120 and have never seen over 53 degrees-even at 1.6V. This was before I lapped my E6600, now I'm seeing 1-2 degrees better. My problem is my chip takes SO much VCore to be stable at 3.3GHz and up. It takes 1.45V just to be stable @ 3.2GHz!

Wanna trade chips? Haha.

There's definitely something wrong with how your HSF is mounted, or something wrong with the way you applied the TIM. My Ultra-120 cannot be 10-15 degrees better at cooling than an SI-120, can it?

I've been using the Zalman STG2 stuff and like it batter than AC5. By at least 2 degrees. I also have my 120mm barely blowing on my Ultra-120 - I can barely hear the thing and my temps are still really low. So, my adivice would be to lap the SI, lap the E6600 and get some Zalman TIM and make sure the 775 bracket isn't preventing your HSF from contacting your E6600 in any way. Take it or leave it.
 
I have a similar setup, just a DQ6,

I had it stable at 3.4Ghz with 1.45V but it was just a tad to hairy for me (to far from spec, I am a wuss) so I backed it down to 3.2Ghz at 1.4V, stable for me



Oh and my memory is the OCZ pc2-6400 platinum and cooling is a zalman 9500

The thing that helped me alot was upping the voltage on the MCH and FSB.+0.30V on the MCH, 0.25V on the FSB. Helped enormously.
 
I got my E6600 to 3.0ghz @ 1.28 vcore

My Idle temps are 39-41 ish and load is 47-50. However, it is very rare that I see 50c.

The ambient in my room is also 79-80F.

I think I have a very strong chip. I am 100% stable and am able to do PI 1M in 16s.

My NB gets rather hot though and I will be applying AS5 shortly.
 
Kristo said:
I have a similar setup, just a DQ6,

I had it stable at 3.4Ghz with 1.45V but it was just a tad to hairy for me (to far from spec, I am a wuss) so I backed it down to 3.2Ghz at 1.4V, stable for me



Oh and my memory is the OCZ pc2-6400 platinum and cooling is a zalman 9500

The thing that helped me alot was upping the voltage on the MCH and FSB.+0.30V on the MCH, 0.25V on the FSB. Helped enormously.
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If I increase MHC my 7950GX2 starts acting weird and artifacts.. :(
 
I need to try to get more out of my 6600. Its only prime stable to 2750Mhz. Around 2.8Ghz it will run Prime for about an hour then crap out.

I'm going to try to drop multiplier to 6x and test to see if its my ram/motherboard causing the problems over 305+FSB or if its the CPU. I only have it at 1.38v but its getting up to 59C under 100% load with an XP-90c.
 
chrisf6969 said:
I need to try to get more out of my 6600. Its only prime stable to 2750Mhz. Around 2.8Ghz it will run Prime for about an hour then crap out.

I'm going to try to drop multiplier to 6x and test to see if its my ram/motherboard causing the problems over 305+FSB or if its the CPU. I only have it at 1.38v but its getting up to 59C under 100% load with an XP-90c.
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Wow that sucks I put mine up to 3.0ghz no problem. I think It has another .4 in it easy.
 
well, I can boot in to Windows @ 3Ghz, but not stable for running anything memory intensive. So I think it might be my shitty DDR2
 
chrisf6969 said:
well, I can boot in to Windows @ 3Ghz, but not stable for running anything memory intensive. So I think it might be my shitty DDR2
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What kind of memory is it?
 
chrisf6969 said:
PQI Turbo DDR2 667

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141211

newegg says its 4-4-4-12, but SPD is programmed for 5-5-5-15 at DDR667

and it only boots on my DS3 at Cas 5. Though with the first few BIOS revisions it showed up in CPU-Z as Cas3. It must have been a reporting error. B/c I tried Cas 4 and it wouldn't boot.
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Slowly go down and usually wait for a BIOS update and also let your board get used to the ram before you start changing thing , also look at Eclipse post on how you should go about changing the latency ,these ram are quite new in the game and good value for money.

Also see if they have forums for support on there website.
 
Shocky said:
If I increase MHC my 7950GX2 starts acting weird and artifacts.. :(
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maybe the pci-e bus doesn't lock? try manually setting it to 100mhz

oh and I have booted up to 3.6ghz on my chip @1.5V and seemed to be stable but when the temps climbed north of 65C I backed down.

Just read that review of the nautilus 500 and seeing i am a complete noob with watercooling, might give it a bash, always wanted to play with it (wanted to get one of those TEK watercooling kits....)
 
FYI I just put a 80mm fan facing towards my NB and my MB temps dropped 6-7c!

I'm now running around 35c. I think after a quick application of AS5 tomorrow I should be really good on my NB temps.
 
nooh said:
Slowly go down and usually wait for a BIOS update and also let your board get used to the ram before you start changing thing , also look at Eclipse post on how you should go about changing the latency ,these ram are quite new in the game and good value for money.

Also see if they have forums for support on there website.
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Well, I dropped it to 7x multi and it still doesnt like too much above 305FSB, so I figure its ram or NB. Then I felt the NB..... its quite HOT. Now I need to go find a 60mm fan to slap on there to see if I can fix it. :( NB's are just like other chips, luck of the draw. Mine seems to be quite hot already at auto voltage so its the prime candidate for my instability. Especially considering I'm using 2.0 ratio so the ram is under spec.
 
chrisf6969 said:
Well, I dropped it to 7x multi and it still doesnt like too much above 305FSB, so I figure its ram or NB. Then I felt the NB..... its quite HOT. Now I need to go find a 60mm fan to slap on there to see if I can fix it. :( NB's are just like other chips, luck of the draw. Mine seems to be quite hot already at auto voltage so its the prime candidate for my instability. Especially considering I'm using 2.0 ratio so the ram is under spec.
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Yeah my NB gets super hot after pointing a fan right at it my temps dropped significantly! I will be applying AS5 tomorrow.
 
Kristo said:
maybe the pci-e bus doesn't lock? try manually setting it to 100mhz

oh and I have booted up to 3.6ghz on my chip @1.5V and seemed to be stable but when the temps climbed north of 65C I backed down.

Just read that review of the nautilus 500 and seeing i am a complete noob with watercooling, might give it a bash, always wanted to play with it (wanted to get one of those TEK watercooling kits....)
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I've tried that, the mobo wont even boot then...very strange motherboard.
 
Do you lot think its wise buying a northbridge Heat Sink , one like the thermalright one.

Are your northbridge temps ok with the overclcoks and is it the cpu that is having the problem with heating?

The funny thing is that the boards you have boasts of this special cooling and even has a plate under the mobo for it , so this to me is weird , i were expecting better heat dissapation from you than complaining about temps. Also the Heating compound needs to settle which takes about two three weeks but that said that will make about 4-6c difference.

The infinty is the one cooler you should be buying , i would think its perfect for core 2 duo.

Also when these cpu's came out there were reviews of people saying you dont even need a fan for overclocking and even the retail HSF are good enough but as soon as they hit the shelves you check all the forums and they all have people complaining about temps for the core 2 duo.Weird don you think.
 
Brahmzy said:
Hey - congrats at getting your E6600 stable @ 3.4GHz with only 1.45VCore. That's better than the average retail E6600. Mine takes a lot more than that.

I had a DS3 - not a DS4...but regardless your temps are very high for that amount of voltage. I have a TR Ultra-120 and have never seen over 53 degrees-even at 1.6V. This was before I lapped my E6600, now I'm seeing 1-2 degrees better. My problem is my chip takes SO much VCore to be stable at 3.3GHz and up. It takes 1.45V just to be stable @ 3.2GHz!

Wanna trade chips? Haha.
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Same exact situation here, E6600 on a DS3 (F4 BIOS) on air (Scythe Ninja Plus). I was trying not to raise my Vcore too high -- 1.45v is my limit -- and 3.2GHz (356x9) is as high as I could get it (stable). Also it gets way too hot past 1.45v for me too, but @ 3.2GHz it's 38-40c idle and 50-54c under ORTHOS (SpeedFan reported 60-61c when I had it up to 3.3 or 3.4GHz). Overall, makes me sad that the ES's are so much better (at overclocking).

Edit: BTW, it's a week 25 CPU if that matters at all.
 
You have done well with that overclock. Will pay off .Nice work :)
 
3400Mhz@1.475(378*9) seems to be stable Memory is at 944... Scythe ninga plus seems to have reduced temps a little but its still 50idle/65Cload with coretemp..

I'm just gonna leave it like this, the reported temps don't seem right... at load the headsink is only warm... You would think a cpu@65C would at least heat up the heatsink a little.. :(
 
Shocky said:
3400Mhz@1.475(378*9) seems to be stable Memory is at 944... Scythe ninga plus seems to have reduced temps a little but its still 50idle/65Cload with coretemp..

I'm just gonna leave it like this, the reported temps don't seem right... at load the headsink is only warm... You would think a cpu@65C would at least heat up the heatsink a little.. :(
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Yeah, but remember, the cores are deep under there. Under the IHS. I tend to believe the CoreTemp readings.
 
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