e6600 @ 3.6 temps

[bfdd]

I have got the cpu stable @ 3.6ghz with 1.56v(more than I'd hoped =\) and the temps with the scythe infinity(didn't try again with the vigor monsoon yet) are like 34-35C @ idle in CoreTemp(same in speedfan). Load temps when running Orthos or Nuclear are like 58C. I know that's within a ok range, but does it seem a little high to anyone? Do you guys think I should clean off the hsf and cpu and reapply my artic silver ceramique? Also the fan on the Scythe barely fits with my ram in the slots anyone else have this problem?

 

[Mango1970]

You have pretty much the EXACT same system as I do. I have the eVGA 680i board, eVGA 8800GTX,. 4 GIG of Ballistix PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 RAM but I am using a Tunic Tower.

To get my CPU stable at 3600 MHz, my e6600 requires the exact same voltage as yours. I get idle temps of again 34-35c -- full load under Orthos is high 50's.

I tried and tried applying my artic silver, tried increasing the fan speed, tried moving stuff around in my Antec 900 but it never went much lower.

Honestly I thought the voltage was a bit too high and hence I now run at 3200mhz which runs like at 1.44 or so V. I never thought the temps were something to worry about with what I was getting... it was more the voltage, period.

I had some issues with the Tunic but more on the lines of getting in the case -- no issues with the RAM which is good but cannot comment on the Scythe.

I am using a P&C 750 Quad SLI PS. Got 2 WD 500 GB drives and a 36 GB Raptor.

I doubt you will see much improvement period on those temps no matter what you do with air cooling. Again I think those temps are PERFECTLY fine.

 

[brock01]

i got tuniq tower also, just got it last week, also have e6600 running at 3.5 and 1.45 ,my idle at 55c in coretemp
wish mine would be lower, dont see why they are so high
any tips?

 

[bfdd]

Wow our systems are almost identical. I had a ocz 850w but it literally went poof, so I bought a PCPC 750w same as you and I used to have an Antec 900 gave it to my brother and bought a Silverstone TJ09. Only difference is the harddrives. I have a 500gb Seagate and 2 300gb Seagates. I think the temps are fine too, it's just I don't want to run that voltage that high. Seems our CPUs think alike because I also need a lot of voltage to run above 3.2ghz I can get away with actually just above stock voltage all the way to 3.2ghz, any more and I have to up the voltage a ton. After initially reading your post I rethought the overclock downclocked back to 3.375ghz(1500fsb) and set the voltage to 1.45(which I got it stable at before) and am just running it at these speeds. Should be fine I just wish I could get faster like my old e6600 before the PSU went poof and messed it up =\

 

[brock01]

im starting to wonder if my x1900xtx is causing the cpu to heat up more than it should.
idle for it is 49c, with the Fatal1ty FC-ZV9 cooler
i think i might move it down to the second pci-e slot and see if it makes a diff.

 

[bfdd]

Originally posted by: brock01
im starting to wonder if my x1900xtx is causing the cpu to heat up more than it should.
idle for it is 49c, with the Fatal1ty FC-ZV9 cooler
i think i might move it down to the second pci-e slot and see if it makes a diff.

I was thinking the same thing...

 

[Mango1970]

Honestly the only way I could get temps that high at IDLE was if for some reason I did not apply the paste well orrrrrr if the Tunic was not sitting well. The first time I placed the cooler on my CPU, although I thought it was flush and tight as soon as I booted up the idle temps were almost 80c. I knew right away I had messed up. I took the Tunic off and just placed it back in, tightened the screws and presto it ran at 27c (this was at stock speed and V).

I tried the goop that came with the Tunic the first time and that had me sitting at idle at 50+. I removed that, cleaned and found an old tube of the AS5 I had lying around and now it's sitting at 34-35c.

I can also attest to the heat your X1900XTX puts out. On my other system the X2-4800+ I am running two of them in Crossfire and OMG the temps in that case (an Antec Sonata) are indeed higher than when I had a single 7900GT in there. However please check... if your Idle temps are in the 55c in coretemp RIGHT WHEN YOU BOOT up... there is something wrong with how you seated the heatsink or the application of the goop -- no ifs ands or buts. If on the other hand the temps reach that after a while, or after you play for a bit, I would assume the video card would contribute to that and also if there is no way or little way of trapped hot air in the case to escape.

I hate the Antec 900 and will be giving it to my brother as well haha. I just find it loud and poorly insulated for noise ? even with all fans at low and the case closed I can still hear it and most of the noise comes from the eVGA chipset fan.. grrr. Not happy at all with it although I have to admit it is well designed. I will be ordering the base Antec 182 I think.. that looks well suited to being quieter. Having stupid open windows and flashy colours and lights is not my thing? I just want a QUIET case.

 

[bfdd]

Originally posted by: Mango1970
Honestly the only way I could get temps that high at IDLE was if for some reason I did not apply the paste well orrrrrr if the Tunic was not sitting well. The first time I placed the cooler on my CPU, although I thought it was flush and tight as soon as I booted up the idle temps were almost 80c. I knew right away I had messed up. I took the Tunic off and just placed it back in, tightened the screws and presto it ran at 27c (this was at stock speed and V).

I tried the goop that came with the Tunic the first time and that had me sitting at idle at 50+. I removed that, cleaned and found an old tube of the AS5 I had lying around and now it's sitting at 34-35c.

I can also attest to the heat your X1900XTX puts out. On my other system the X2-4800+ I am running two of them in Crossfire and OMG the temps in that case (an Antec Sonata) are indeed higher than when I had a single 7900GT in there. However please check... if your Idle temps are in the 55c in coretemp RIGHT WHEN YOU BOOT up... there is something wrong with how you seated the heatsink or the application of the goop -- no ifs ands or buts. If on the other hand the temps reach that after a while, or after you play for a bit, I would assume the video card would contribute to that and also if there is no way or little way of trapped hot air in the case to escape.

I hate the Antec 900 and will be giving it to my brother as well haha. I just find it loud and poorly insulated for noise ? even with all fans at low and the case closed I can still hear it and most of the noise comes from the eVGA chipset fan.. grrr. Not happy at all with it although I have to admit it is well designed. I will be ordering the base Antec 182 I think.. that looks well suited to being quieter. Having stupid open windows and flashy colours and lights is not my thing? I just want a QUIET case.

It just felt to cramped for me, everything was so tight I had to remove the video card to get harddrives in and out. I didn't like that. Bought a Silverstone TJ09 big nice and with the fans I have in it it's QUIET with really good airflow. Haven't really noticed a temp difference moving to this case just I like the way it looks better and it's much easier to access things inside but the CPU power cord is really hard to get in and out with the heatsink in the way. I had to get as close as i could with my big hands then push it in with a screw driver =\ Other than that I absolutely love this case.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Those are great temps - what is your ambient?

 

[bfdd]

Originally posted by: njdevilsfan87
Those are great temps - what is your ambient?

Getting hot lately. I set the top rear fan in my TJ09 to blow down over the Infinity + the one mounted blowing across, but I didn't notice any difference in temps. The temps are fine I realize that it's just the amount of voltage. I tried it again and it failed orthos till I pumped it to over 1.58v and it ran ok but I just don't want to pump that much voltage through. I'm fine with 1.45v @ 3.4ghz

 

[NickelPlate]

Originally posted by: bfdd
I had a ocz 850w but it literally went poof, so I bought a PCPC 750w same as you and I used to have an Antec 900 gave it to my brother and bought a Silverstone TJ09.

That OCZ is a new supply and should be under warranty. Any reason you tossed it? Haven't had any problems with mine yet :fingers crossed:.

 

[itsrunninghot]

I wonder if i should be trying to overclock further. Just built my new system and am stable at 3.6 with 1.42v. Idle 31, Load 53 core temp.

E6600
Gigabyte ds3
big typhoon vx
antec 900, fans on med.

 

[InterTech]

Originally posted by: bfdd
I have got the cpu stable @ 3.6ghz with 1.56v(more than I'd hoped =\) and the temps with the scythe infinity(didn't try again with the vigor monsoon yet) are like 34-35C @ idle in CoreTemp(same in speedfan). Load temps when running Orthos or Nuclear are like 58C. I know that's within a ok range, but does it seem a little high to anyone? Do you guys think I should clean off the hsf and cpu and reapply my artic silver ceramique? Also the fan on the Scythe barely fits with my ram in the slots anyone else have this problem?

Those are great temp...I am on water and I don't get that kind of temp at 3.6ghz with 1.56v! I just don't trust CoreTemp for some reason. I load up CoreTemp, SpeenFan, Intel TAT, and nvMonitor and they all show different temp. I just don't know what to trust. CoreTemp shows the lowest temp and nvMonitor show the highest temp. This is while idling. Load, however, they all come pretty close to each other, but nvMonitor still shows a couple degrees higher.
I am at 3.4ghz and 1.3125v and my idle temp in CoreTemp is about 28°c and load is in the low 40°c. nvMonitor shows it idling around 34°. This is under Vista.
So for me, I just add 5-6°c to CoreTemp just to be on the safe side.

At 3.6ghz, I have to put in 1.525v it to be stable. Even under water, I don't feel 200mhz is worth the temp and juice. Just a little something for you to think about.

 

[bfdd]

For me, nvmonitor, speedfan, and coretemp all show the same temps *shrug*. Also about the powersupply yes I'm going to RMA it but I work a lot and when I don't work I'm lazy. I try to get my brother to do things like that for me while I'm working, but he is lazier than I. I have to RMA one of my 4gb kits of ram too so =\ Maybe I'll take care of that today and tomorrow. I agree too InterTech. I can't push myself to put that much voltage on the CPU even if the temps are ok it just screams problems to me =\

 

[dannybin1742]

those temps are great, i'm running a e4300 at 3ghz (see sig) and my temps now that the as5 has set are 28 idle 54 load and i'm running liquid cooling (not water, its a non-conductive liquid, well worth the money).

so for air thats great

 

[bfdd]

Took the PC apart, took off the Scythe Infinity. Cleaned the Artic Silver Ceramique off, reapplied it and put back on the vigor monsoon II all fresh and neatly set my settings to 1500fsb(375) so it put me at 3.375ghz slowly upped the voltage to 1.425 which got me in windows and orthos running stable with it and just Core Temp running idle temps were 22-23C load temps 50C Orthos was running for about 15 minutes before I decided to post. I bumped the voltage to 1.435 going to run orthos again. Idle temps are the same 23C. CPU-Z is saying my voltage is 1.408 but actual is 1.435. Going to run orthos while I go play basketball for a couple hours I'll post again if it crashes or not. Seems this Vigor Monsoon cools a LOT better than the Scythe Infinity. 10C or more during idle and 9-10C less while on load.

 

[brock01]

wow
i messed with my STUFF forever today
took out the tuniq tower couple of times (my fingers hurt, the screws) and idle at 3.5 @1.45 is still 53-54C
dont understand why its so high
did everything by the book too, spent bout 3 hours testing everything, and nothing

 

[bfdd]

Wow that's really high man I just let orthos run for 3hrs 45minutes and the load temp was at 50c when I looked at it again so I think I'm pretty good with these settings atm. Maybe you need to lap the tuniq?? or your cpu? I don't know I kind of want to stay away from lapping anything. Maybe your fan isn't working properly? Try setting everything to stock and checking your temps and what not? I'm goign to try and bump this cpu a little higher, but I really don't want to go farther than 1.5v and even that I'm kind of blah about. So I don't know we'll see. Brock01, what thermal paste are you using?

 

[brock01]

AS5
and stock E6600 is at 40C. really horrible
theres nothing you have to do to the fan is there on the tuniq tower? i have it set on High atm and pointing to my exhaust 120mm fan.

 

[bfdd]

Weird man maybe your Tuniq isn't sitting flat on the cpu or something? That's really awkward considering how good of a cooler it is. Did you try another hsf? Try putting the stock hsf and fan on and see what kind of temps you get?

 

[brock01]

ight will try that tomorrow, ouch my fingers hurt though , such a pain in the ass to do
will do that and report back tomorrow sir
haha

 

[brock01]

with everything stock, idle temps are at 46-47
this is with the tuniq tower, dont understand whats wrong here

 

[lopri]

brock01, what is your E6600's VID? It can be read via CoreTemp.

 

[brock01]

1.3250
im starting to think i may need to lap my E6600.
This is what made me start thinking this way. http://forums.overclockersclub...p?showtopic=71547&st=0
If you guys agree on this, can you recommend any good lapping guides for me. As im willing to void the warranty to lower these ridiculous temps.
Thanks alot guys in advance

edit: found a good guide i think, http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=71

 

[aigomorla]

hey op, i honestly think thats too much voltage for 3.6ghz

my Quad is doing 3.6 @ 1.525V Bios which is about 1.47Vcore real.


An average E6600 should do 3.6 @ 1.4-1.45V

if you need to push more voltage to get 3.6ghz i wouldnt unless you dont load her up 24/7 like i do to all my rigs.