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Sigma_Hyperion
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- Dec 18, 2006
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I'm a semi-newb when it comes to the level of OCing that I've undertaken with my new build. And I've been, what I believe, is rather successful. In fact, more successful than probably any of the numerous reviews/comments on OCing the Core 2 Duos on a 680i that I've read. Which has led me to question what the people writing the reviews consider "stable" as opposed to my experiences.
I've gotten my E6600 on an eVGA 680i with 2GB of Corsair DDR2-800 up to 4GHz (actually 3.96Ghz to be specific) with a bump to a 1799MHz FSB. This is with standard air cooling and just a Zalman 92mm on the CPU. I've also OC'd the 8800GTS to 650/850 from 513/792. 3DMark06 scores went from 7721 to 10862 -- not bad if I may say so myself.
My question is whether the temps that I'm experiencing (outlined below) are something to be overly concerned with, and, if so, what would be the easiest way to lower them without sacrificing too much of the OC speed.
At idle in BIOS, the CPU temp is ~41C. Not bad. When in Windows this jumps and holds at ~51C. When running Orthos it will quickly jump to ~70C then slowly climb to ~75C where it will hold for hours (I've tested up to 6 hours with no problems).
I was a little concerned with the 75C. So I ran decided to run a "real world" test and ran tests using Company of Heroes, the most "real world" resource intensive thing I could think of. And there the temps never go over 62C. Something, in my mind, hardly to be concerned with if that's the highest that I can expect temps to reach in real world usage.
And throughout it all I've never had any stability problems at all. I had some graphical artifacts when playing Act of War, but I think that was a driver problem rather than a system problem (since that game is decidedly less resource intensive than CoH).
Are my temps anything to be genuinely concerned with? I appreciate the feedback as I'm new to this level of overclocking.
I've gotten my E6600 on an eVGA 680i with 2GB of Corsair DDR2-800 up to 4GHz (actually 3.96Ghz to be specific) with a bump to a 1799MHz FSB. This is with standard air cooling and just a Zalman 92mm on the CPU. I've also OC'd the 8800GTS to 650/850 from 513/792. 3DMark06 scores went from 7721 to 10862 -- not bad if I may say so myself.
My question is whether the temps that I'm experiencing (outlined below) are something to be overly concerned with, and, if so, what would be the easiest way to lower them without sacrificing too much of the OC speed.
At idle in BIOS, the CPU temp is ~41C. Not bad. When in Windows this jumps and holds at ~51C. When running Orthos it will quickly jump to ~70C then slowly climb to ~75C where it will hold for hours (I've tested up to 6 hours with no problems).
I was a little concerned with the 75C. So I ran decided to run a "real world" test and ran tests using Company of Heroes, the most "real world" resource intensive thing I could think of. And there the temps never go over 62C. Something, in my mind, hardly to be concerned with if that's the highest that I can expect temps to reach in real world usage.
And throughout it all I've never had any stability problems at all. I had some graphical artifacts when playing Act of War, but I think that was a driver problem rather than a system problem (since that game is decidedly less resource intensive than CoH).
Are my temps anything to be genuinely concerned with? I appreciate the feedback as I'm new to this level of overclocking.
