Truth.
I expected to get 3.4 EASY on mine with bad air circulation the way I read about the processor. Truth be told 3.0 hits 55C and that's plenty hot enough for me!
I don't know. I read all good things about this heatsink (the AC I have). It seems to be doing its job pretty well, but now two people have told me it is vastly inferior to other models. I assumed that I just didn't have good enough circulation.
I'm thinking of getting 250mm and 120mm fans. Cut the majority of the side panel open for the 250 (blowing in) and cut the top for the 120 (sucking out) then I have an 80 in the front sucking in, a 120 in the back blowing out and those two. I think that'd drop me quite a few degrees. Yes?
I took it up to 3.2 (712 on my ram which I know shouldn't take that much.) Gave my ram a .2v increase and took my bios vcore up to 1.40. That gave me about a 1.36 in Hwmonitor and CPU-Z. It got to 99% or so (About 45 minutes) in OCCT and then crashed. It spiked to about 65 degrees which is a bit...
It is sitting at 3.0 now, running OCCT at 1.22 vcore. It's getting about as hot as I want it to get (Peaks at about 57c). I might bump it up a tad, but until I get more fans for my case it seems to be right about where I'll leave it for the temperatures.
Okay, I'm on my laptop now so I can write everything that I have enabled/disabled in bios.
Starting with Advanced Bios features:
HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Disabled
Limit CPUID Max to 3 Disabled
No-Execute Memory Protect Enabled
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) Disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2)...
First and foremost, specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
4 Gigs (2 x 2) A-Data 240 pin DDR2 PC2 5300
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair CMPSU-620HX ATX12v v2.2 and EPS12v 2.91
If the rest matters?
Vista Home premium 64 bit
Lite-on 20x DVD burner
EVGA 9600GT
2x...
I think I might go this router and get a different motherboard and a second EVGA 9600GT now. It seems a bit more logical for playing games (The primary reason for this setup).
I appreciate the advice.
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