Lowering my E6400 temps

[Benton The Race]

Right now I am running 45 degrees idle with the following

E6400
Scythe Ninja w/ stock fan and thermal paste
Stock clock speeds
Temp 45-46 celsius idle

What can I do to lower these insane temps? Would putting on a high cfm/rpm panaflo help?

 

[-Rc-]

Sand your heatsink on the processor down to make it smooth.

 

[pika2000]

Set your power management power scheme setting to "Minimal power management" to enable speedstep. Yup, Speedstep is NOT enabled by default.
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/res...op/proc_dsk_p4/technical_reference/203838.htm

 

[Zoogle]

He shouldn't need to sand down the Ninja as their QC is pretty decent. I'm sure it's smooth as it is. Perhaps you have too much thermal paste? Enabling speedstep will improve idle temps but it's my understanding that C2D's run pretty cold even at full speed.

EDIT: the grammar wizard is displeased with me.

 

[dark_reign]

Set your power management power scheme setting to "Minimal power management" to enable speedstep. Yup, Speedstep is NOT enabled by default.
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/res...op/proc_dsk_p4/technical_reference/203838.htm

After testing this with my E6400, CPU-Z showed it running at 1.8 GHz with a x6 multiplier. I saw little reduction in core temp. Most overclockers wouldn't want to use this.

I think getting good airflow through the case is something that should be looked at as well as room temp. Lapping the heatspreader on the CPU may help some, but I doubt it will bring down the temps that much.

Don't trust the motherboard temp monitor since it's most likely off. Use Core Temp or Intel's Thermal Analyzer Tool for better accuracy. ASUS PC Probe II is reading +5 hotter over Core Temp.

 

[lightsourcex]

Right now I am running 45 degrees idle with the following

E6400
Scythe Ninja w/ stock fan and thermal paste
Stock clock speeds
Temp 45-46 celsius idle

What can I do to lower these insane temps? Would putting on a high cfm/rpm panaflo help?

I think you may have too much thermal paste on your heatsink just as Zoogle stated, when applying the thermal paste how much did you use and what type did you use?

Also, I wasn't aware the Scythe Ninja came with a fan, if possible could you give me a link to the Scythe WITH the fan, because I can find the Scythe Without one everywhere. Also, I wanted to know what your load temperatures are. I currently am folding on both cores @ 47C and my temperatures have never gone over 50C.

Set your power management power scheme setting to "Minimal power management" to enable speedstep. Yup, Speedstep is NOT enabled by default.
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/res...op/proc_dsk_p4/technical_reference/203838.htm

SpeedStep isn't really a Solution to resolve the problem, it's only a work around, and even when it is enabled it doesn't really help anything.

 

[Benton The Race]

I think you may have too much thermal paste on your heatsink just as Zoogle stated, when applying the thermal paste how much did you use and what type did you use?

Also, I wasn't aware the Scythe Ninja came with a fan, if possible could you give me a link to the Scythe WITH the fan, because I can find the Scythe Without one everywhere. Also, I wanted to know what your load temperatures are. I currently am folding on both cores @ 47C and my temperatures have never gone over 50C.



SpeedStep isn't really a Solution to resolve the problem, it's only a work around, and even when it is enabled it doesn't really help anything.

Its called the scythe ninja plus. Newegg has it. Is artic silver really going to make a diffrence? Becuase I am going to try to reaaply thermal paste using the rice grain drop in the center method rather than spreading with a credit card and want to know if I should really spend the dough on it. Also where can I buy it that takes paypal?

 

[lightsourcex]

Its called the scythe ninja plus. Newegg has it. Is artic silver really going to make a diffrence? Becuase I am going to try to reaaply thermal paste using the rice grain drop in the center method rather than spreading with a credit card and want to know if I should really spend the dough on it. Also where can I buy it that takes paypal?

Yes, Arctic Silver really does make differences. I was using AS5 w/ a stock heatsink on my 3200+ @ 42C Load I changed to some Thermalright Paste and I got at least 50C idle. It wasn't a bad seating either, because I tried the same paste w/ my E6300, my friends P4 2.4, and another friends P4 2.6, all had drastic temperature rises.

I doubt that 4 processors in a row got seated bad. And then reseated bad once again. However I'm not saying that the Paste you have is bad but I wouldn't be surprised if you tried AS5 and got better temps. I've also found that rice grain BB's work much better.

As for buying as5, you can get it from sidewinder computer's and pay w/ paypal:

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/arcticsilver5.html

 

[AC2]

I have the E6600 and the Scythe Ninja Plus but i use a 120mm fan from Thermaltake on it and i get 28C-31C for my idle temps and i used some AS5 on it too. I spread the as5 out with a razor blade. Not to be mean or trying to down you but did you take the plastic off the bottom of the heatsink first? I almost forgot to do that myself.

 

[-Rc-]

Benton, take a look at this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1090794

There have been people reporting concave or convex IHS' on the processors, so check to see if you have one of those. People who are sanding down the uneven IHS' are generally reporting 5-10* C drops in temps.