General Question About OCing and Temperatures...

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BishoyHanna

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Ok, I've been looking through some of the core 2 duo overclocking threads (I'm new to overclocking) and I've noticed a lot of you can EASILY get the e6600 to 3.0ghz stable.

Question is this -- almost all the threads I look in use Asus Probe or MBM or something like that to measure their temps...

NOT Core temp or TAT.

Why? I've read that asus probe 2 is INCREDIBLY innaccurate compared to CORE TEMP. My asus probe/speedfan/etc. read 19C idle, 35C load.

But my core temp are 31/35C idle, 48/49C load.

By the way, I'm running an e6600 with a scythe ninja plus. I'm scared to OC because I don't know if my temps are too high.

Anywho, thanks for answering in advance.

~BishoyHanna
 
Why?
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BtCooM (Beats the crap out of me, no clue as core temp susposedly reads the thermal diode inside the chip and everything I have read indicates it is accurate and perhaps more importantly the values can be compared across motherboard vendors.

Crank yours up till core temp gets around 60C under load. That is well within the safe temp limits and see what you get for a overclock.
 
Because Coretemp generally reads higher temps than the other apps, and people are used to using the standard lower temps as reference points. For example, let's say Coretemp reads temps 10C higher than other apps, and the temperature you're comfortable with at load is 60C read from Speedfan or whatever other app. Looking at Coretemp, your max temp in that program would now be 70C instead of 60C. This becomes sort of confusing, and in the end you don't really get any benefits from using Coretemp anyway.
 
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