Q6600 HS on a E4500 ?

[the snake]

my brother has a new system i am putting together for him, it has a E4500 OEM HS and i still have my OEM Q6600 HS that i never used, the quad heatsink is much larger and i just want to make sure it will fit the E4500, i assume so as they are the same socket, right ?

i will probably overclock his PC some on stock volts, just to give him a slight boost, so i figure this might help ?

 

[Dangman]

It will fit with no problems.

 

[soundguy]

its just a bog standard intel HS, so it'll work fine

 

[Zero82z]

The heatsink Intel includes with its cheaper CPUs is pretty crappy, so your quad stock HSF will probably help quite a bit. With Intel systems, any heatsink that will work with one configuration will work with all of them since the mounting holes are identical for every board.

 

[the snake]

thanks all for the advice

 

[huddy]

I've had great performance from the intel stock (quad) HSF's on an E6700 and a couple of E7200's.

 

[the snake]

one more question, should i use the Intel heat goop or should i clean that off and use arctic ceramique which i have ?

 

[lamboman]

I would clean it off personally, but it is up to you. The Intel stuff is pretty crap, but it isn't going to kill your overclock.

 

[Zero82z]

Ceramique would be a fair amount better, so yeah, you should clean it off.

 

[the snake]

okay it is up and running now,

E4500 VID of 1.325
2 GB ballistic 800
gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo

default settings v-core is at 1.152 with speedstep at idle.
default settings v-core is at 1.280 prime load

set to 240 x 11 = 2640 Mhz
v-core set in bios to 1.275
v-core at idle is 1.250
v-core at load is 1.232
cpu temp at load is about 48.

how much more do you all think i can go before pushing more v-core to it, i want to leave it as low as possible, stock or lower if i can.

 

[SilverSliver]

Only one way to know how much further it will go!

 

[gwarren007]

An easy overclock would be to set your Vcore to auto and set your FSB to 266, then adjust you ram speed to 800 specs. That will yield you a 2.9+ overclock and will run cool all day long with that overclock. I had my E4500 on a Ip35e running at 320fsb for many months before moving to a quadcore.

 

[3991vhtes]

All stock intel heatsinks are the same, according to my uncle. (who's a PC guy)

 

[the snake]

no they are not, my quad HS was much taller than the E4500HS and had a copper core v.s. aluminum core

 

[Zero82z]

All stock intel heatsinks are the same, according to my uncle. (who's a PC guy)

We're all PC guys here, and we say you're uncle is wrong . Intel includes a smaller all-aluminum heatsink with their cheaper dual-core CPUs to reduce manufacturing costs, because they don't need that much cooling. The quads and higher-end chips on the other hand, need beefier sinks because they run hotter.

 

[Dangman]

We're all PC guys here, and we say you're uncle is wrong . Intel includes a smaller all-aluminum heatsink with their cheaper dual-core CPUs to reduce manufacturing costs, because they don't need that much cooling. The quads and higher-end chips on the other hand, need beefier sinks because they run hotter.

QFT

 

[RamonGTP]

All stock intel heatsinks are the same, according to my uncle. (who's a PC guy)

All you have to do is look at the different ones to see that they are not the same. Their mounting mechanism is the same, but the heatsink itself is not.

To the OP, I have my stock Q6600 HSF on my E4500 and it works quite well. I'm at 2.93GHz with the voltgage set to auto (as mentioned above) I'm even using the stock pad that's on the hsf.

 

[bigdogchris]

realtemp ftw

 

[asiandunn30]

the e8400 HSF is a joke.. that is the slimmest hsf i have seen..without the fan

 

[Matthew Kane]

the e8400 HSF is a joke.. that is the slimmest hsf i have seen..without the fan

that is because the new E8000 series (Penryns) run cooler and less power consumption then its previous cousins, therefore less cooling is needed!