I was just wondering what safe temps would be for an e6600 overclock and what voltage would be safe on good air cooling like say a zalman 9500? I had my conroe e6600 at 3.6ghz at 1.55 volts with idle temps at like 35 and 37-39 on the cores, but I tried running dual prime95 and one of the cores got an error and I got a blue screen and restart. How much higher could I go on the voltage? I check the conroe overclock database I saw a few people at 1.57 and 1.575 volts or something on air.
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Safe Temps and Volts for E6600 overclock
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I personally wouldn't go over 1.5V on the core unless you are using water cooling or better. The benefits gained in speed just aren't worth the risk - be prepared to buy a new CPU sooner rather than later.
Under full load, I'd also try and keep the core temps to 60C or lower. (Use Intel's TAT to put both cores under full load and see what happens to your temps - I bet they go way past 60C. TAT seems to stress the cores better than Ortho / Prime95.)
We have pretty much the exact same set-up, only I went with a E6700 and a Zalman 97000. I'm idling at 37C and I max out at around 60C with both cores under full load. I'm running almost as aggressively as you are, a E6700 @ 3.4Ghz, but I'm only hitting the core with 1.35V. I tried higher volts, but the temps just start climbing to high under load.
From what I've read, you really don't want to be running at temps much higher than 62-64C max, and I bet you need to back the voltages down a bit and shoot for a lower/stable overclock rather than one which will just end up frying your CPU under load. If you want to go further, switch to water or vaporchill.
Cheers!
--Supercharged_Z06
Under full load, I'd also try and keep the core temps to 60C or lower. (Use Intel's TAT to put both cores under full load and see what happens to your temps - I bet they go way past 60C. TAT seems to stress the cores better than Ortho / Prime95.)
We have pretty much the exact same set-up, only I went with a E6700 and a Zalman 97000. I'm idling at 37C and I max out at around 60C with both cores under full load. I'm running almost as aggressively as you are, a E6700 @ 3.4Ghz, but I'm only hitting the core with 1.35V. I tried higher volts, but the temps just start climbing to high under load.
From what I've read, you really don't want to be running at temps much higher than 62-64C max, and I bet you need to back the voltages down a bit and shoot for a lower/stable overclock rather than one which will just end up frying your CPU under load. If you want to go further, switch to water or vaporchill.
Cheers!
--Supercharged_Z06