Hello people of the wonderful Tom's Hardware community.
I have an old Dell OptiPlex 755 Mid-Tower computer that I am currently using as my make-shift gaming PC as I save for a new Haswell plat-formed build with 6GB DDR2 800Mhz Ram, an R7 250 GPU and looking to upgrade from a measly Core 2 Duo E4600 (which is stock to the system) to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 which I have lying around in my spare parts bin. I know the chip is compatible and have already updated to the latest and greatest A21 BIOS version however have one simple questions.
Do I need to upgrade the standard aluminium heatsink I am using now to the copper heatpipe heatsink to compensate for the Core 2 Quad?
You see, that would be an easy task if there were any available with the J9761 part number which is compatible with the 755 on eBay in the UK however that isn't the case so for the time being I'm stuck with the standard cooler.
Can I still make the upgrade since I would really like to put this chip to some good use and squeeze a little more performance out of this OptiPlex until I get my new computer built some point early next year. I will be using Arctic Silver thermal compound of course.
I estimate the load temperatures to be around 60-67 under 100% load with the aluminium cooler I have which is still under the 71 Degrees Tcase of the G0 Stepped chip I have, some people say this is okay, others say that it is unacceptable. In my books, 65ish is pretty good for a quad core CPU but considering that is very close to the maximum reachable temperature I need a little clarification on this.
Thanks in advance!
I have an old Dell OptiPlex 755 Mid-Tower computer that I am currently using as my make-shift gaming PC as I save for a new Haswell plat-formed build with 6GB DDR2 800Mhz Ram, an R7 250 GPU and looking to upgrade from a measly Core 2 Duo E4600 (which is stock to the system) to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 which I have lying around in my spare parts bin. I know the chip is compatible and have already updated to the latest and greatest A21 BIOS version however have one simple questions.
Do I need to upgrade the standard aluminium heatsink I am using now to the copper heatpipe heatsink to compensate for the Core 2 Quad?
You see, that would be an easy task if there were any available with the J9761 part number which is compatible with the 755 on eBay in the UK however that isn't the case so for the time being I'm stuck with the standard cooler.
Can I still make the upgrade since I would really like to put this chip to some good use and squeeze a little more performance out of this OptiPlex until I get my new computer built some point early next year. I will be using Arctic Silver thermal compound of course.
I estimate the load temperatures to be around 60-67 under 100% load with the aluminium cooler I have which is still under the 71 Degrees Tcase of the G0 Stepped chip I have, some people say this is okay, others say that it is unacceptable. In my books, 65ish is pretty good for a quad core CPU but considering that is very close to the maximum reachable temperature I need a little clarification on this.
Thanks in advance!
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