hot hot? Q6600?

[mirza911]

my new quad processor is showing a temp of about 75 degrees Celsius and each of the cores show a temp from 70 -90 degrees celsius that seems way way way too hot for me what should i do? and should i try measureing with dif program or sumtn? just i need some advice plz.

 

[ShadowFlareX]

If you want good advice, then put a little bit of effort to list your PC specifications, what heatsink you use, are those idle or load temps, what are you using to read those temps, how is your room temp, is your PC case getting good airflow... etc

With that little details you provided, I guess you're using stock cooling without the fan running? Or bad PC case airflow? It could be anything...

 

[mirza911]

those are pretty much idle temps just running pc wizard and nothing else and thats the temps i get. im using the stock heatsink and pc wizard tells me that the PCU fan is running around 2700rpm i think room temp is 70 degrees F and about the airflow im not sure i would say its fine maybe not the best

 

[Gillbot]

use core temp

 

[GuitarDaddy]

If your hitting 70c+ at idle, something is wrong

1. HSF isn't mounted correctly
2. Too much thermal grease
3. No thermal grease


#1 is the most common, with the pushpin mounting system on stock Intel HSF's is you don't get all four pins locked in to the mobo, the HSF doesn't make proper contact with the CPU

 

[Diogenes2]

I agree with GuitarDaddy ... & PC Wizard is fine for monitoring temps.. It accesses the same info that CoreTemp does and provides a lot of
extra info as well ...

 

[mirza911]

ok i think my heatsink was not seated well because i reseated it and now i have a 32c cpu and the cores are 42c 42c 44c and 48c on idle how would i check full load?

 

[tr1kstanc3]

you can run 2 instances of Orthos and use coretemp to watch the temps rise. my q6600 @ 3ghz runs around 60-62c after 3 hrs of Orthos using a zerotherm nirvana 120.

 

[Diogenes2]

After 3 hours ?

My temps max out after about 30 seconds of 100% load ...

 

[bryanW1995]

OCCT is easier to use than prime.

@shadowflarex: hey, you copied my oc!!

 

[obeseotron]

Originally posted by: Diogenes2
After 3 hours ?

My temps max out after about 30 seconds of 100% load ...

The CPU does hit it's max temp that fast, in the sense that the delta between ambient and CPU temp shouldn't change much. The extra heat has to go somewhere though, and depending on your ventilation, it will probably increase the ambient temps inside the case a few degrees over time. Not much, but there is a difference.

 

[taltamir]

basically the CPU heats up the air in the case, that heats up room you are in, that heats up the house...
By waiting 3 hours you get it to a point where it saturates the local area, the room, etc, and gets a few degrees higher, and is kept in check by the house AC (or just the outside temperatures if it is winter).

Ofcourse, those things still fluctuate a bit. But really there isn't much point to test it.it makes more sense to check max temp 30 seconds later, and then do a long term stability test, rather then checking temperature after long time load (to see EXACTLY how much higher it went).

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: Diogenes2
After 3 hours ?

My temps max out after about 30 seconds of 100% load ...

i have my q6600 in a server tower so i let it heat up the surrounding components and the chassis to get a valid temperature. i figured 3 hrs was good enough at 100% load to get an accurate number.