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Q6600 Temprature +80C while encoding

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mwvirk

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Hello friends,

its my first post here and i am sure you guys will help me to solve my problem.
i am having serious temp problem in my brand new Q6600 with DP35DP while encoding, playing WMPlayer or even if its idle.

i will start by giving my specs:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 G0 SLACR (Stock fan)
Mobo: Intel DP35DPM
Bios_version: 0437
RAM: Transcend 4GB (2GB x 2 GB)
GPU: XFX 8800GT AlphaDog 512MB (stock fan)
Case: ThermalTake Armor (normal cooling system with casing - no additional fan) (Updated later - u can read down)
PSU: ToughtPower 750Watt
HD's: Seagate 200GB IDE ATA (Bootable)
Seagate 250GB Sata
Maxtor 1TB Sata
DVD-Rom: LG DVD-RAM
Audio: PCI Creative Audigy 2 7.1
OS: Windows* XP Professional

i am not doing any overclocking. and everything is running with stocked fan even no extra fan was installed on casing. but i used my system and found that temp. is going high. may b i am wrong and may b its normal with this system.

i have also notice that temp was even 60c 52c 53c 56c for all 4 cores and while running windows media player. but later it came down but while doind video encoding and cpu in loaded (not fully) temp goes to 80+

see if its ok or do i need to do something about this temp.

i was told by somebody to change cpu stock fan and apply thermal compound again... so i did it:

removed stocked cpu fan + apply thermal compund and installed new heatsink fan (same like stocked fan - i found 1 free) also added 1 thermaltake 140mm fan on front of the casing but still the same problem.

temp was even more than before. (before encoding was giving temp 78 but after the new compund/fan it was going more than 85

note: i am living in a gulf where weather temp nowadays is around 50c

(i got screen shorts but i don't know how to add here)

thnx in advance.
 
Considering your ambient temperature of 50+C .. this seems normal.. although still high.

An aftermarket cooler will help, but probably not much due to your ambient temps..
 
It could be like my chip with the IHS not getting great contact with the cores. I have a week 37 chip with a 1.225 vid like this guy in another forums:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=5631029


and I have the same problem as well. I can run my chip with only 1.275 volts to get to 3.2ghz (8x400), but the chip when priming goes up to 70c. And thats with a TRUE 120.
 
Its fine don't worry. Put the stock fan back if it ran cooler. Look at disabling EIST (speedstep) in the bios so the fan runs 100% all the time and see if you can stand the noise. Understand that stock the fan on the CPU will run at reduced speeds to limit noise and ramps up as load ramps up and trades off some cooling for reduced fan speed as well.

You CANNOT burn up the chip it will just shutdown and at 85 or even 95 C you still have some thermal headroom. If you are still concerned look into an Arctic Freezer Pro 7 heatsink/fan for about $30 as the best bang for buck improvement over the stock heatsink. Look in the temp program you are using for the option to show "show delta to Tjunction" or "show thermal margin" set this way the program reads the CPU temp information directly without any possible math mistakes and tells the like a countdown "how many deg C are remaining until the CPU thinks it is hot". Note that this factory calibrated temp varies per CPU and thus for your CPU you are looking at the most accurate method of determining thermal stress. The bigger the number the better. Also this is NOT the shutdown temp, it is the temp (when delta to Tjunction reduces to 0) that the CPU put out a PROCHOT signal that the motherboard should use to ramp all cooling fans up to 100% speed. It is 10-15C beyond that that the catastrophic thermal trip would occur.

You might just take the side panel off during long encoding sessions and see if that helps. If it does you need better case airflow or air conditioning :cool:
 
my q6600 @ 3.0 Ghz sits right at 85C when doing x264 1080p encoding using the stock heatsink/fan.
 
thanks for all ur support and finally i got the solution and fixed the problem. here u can see full remedy:

took my pc back to work shop and went to BIOS and monitored the System hardware monitor screen for 10 min and found that temp of processor is going down but mother temp is going hight as well as ICH Temp & MCH Temp was seriously getting high. ICH started from 45 and reached to 68 in 10 min. also found that some of the chips on boards are getting heatup and as per instructions checked heatsink by touching it physically and found still cold.

replaced Quad 6600 to some Duo and again ran BIOS for 10 min and this time same temp.

replaced motherboard DP35DP to ASUS P4Q Chipset P45 and ran the same test and now temp was ok.

started Win xp and ran some programs and put max load on cpu. (max was 98%) and RAM use was more than 950MB (total 4 GB on board) but temp didn't cross 58*C (that was max with 98% cpu)

now idle temp is 40 and load max is 58

will run more test tonight and will update u...

again, thanks for all you support....

now u think my pc setup is ok including new mobo config...

will try to do OC to get benifits of ASUS mobo

thnx again
 
be glad u guys dont have the B3 stepping b/c mine idles at 42-44C at stock speeds with a zerotherm hsf. heck, my gtx280 is at 39c right now at 100%. :(
 
39*C @ 100% is amazing for any current video card (in a good way - my HD4850 idles at 65*C, with the manual fan mod). :confused:

My B3 X3210 idled similarly, but it's not a big deal. My G0 Q6700 also idles around 40*C (some cores lower, some higher). Despite what the masses believe, that's not terrible.... As long as it doesnt load to 80*C, you're fine. I stay in the mid-50*Cs under load, which is quite fine by me.
 
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