E6600@3.4 GHZ TEMP

[temerut]

Hi!
Mine E6600 runs fine @3.4 vcore 1.4625V BIOS, but I'm preocupied about the temperature at load. The TAT reads 74ºC. Mine heatsinkk is Scyth Ninja with 120mm fan. the case have 3 fans:
120mm - lateral intake,
80mm - front intake and
120mm - rear outake.

Any sugestions?

 

[skyguy]

Download CoreTemp and see what temps it gives you. There is often a 10C difference between monitoring programs. Most people here use CoreTemp and trust it for OC'ing.

See what temps you get with CoreTemp and go from there.

 

[deadlydude]

You may not need that high a Vcore voltage...it will increase cpu temp.

I'm running at 1.375v and getting 3.5Gig with 61C load temp
Also increase the ram volts at least +.3v.

 

[PX7800GT]

deadlydude is right about the VCore.
you don`t need a high VCore on Core2Duo CPUs !
that may hurt your CPU...

 

[skyguy]

Agreed. I have my vCore at less than stock, but vDIMM at +0.2v.

Sounds like your RAM needs the juice, not your CPU.

 

[CompuTronix]

My 6600 is at 1.5125 vCore for stable operation with 52c full load at 3.7Ghz, and I consider this to be the extreme vCore and temp limit. At 3.6Ghz, it requires 1.45 vCore, and at 3.5Ghz, it only needs 1.4 vCore, so you see the trend.

Understand there are no CPU's 100% identical. Every silicon semiconductor device is unique, and as such, has different basic properties of electronics such as resistance, capacitance, inductance, impedance, and transconductance. Although two consecutive serial number CPU's from the same fabrication, with the same stepping codes, may appear identical, they're yielded from different location on the silicon wafer from which they're manufactured, and like diamonds, each has it's own unique flaws.

Even though their dynamic operational characteristics may be very similar, no two CPU's will overclock to exactly the same stable maximum speed, at the same voltage, at the same temperature. Additionally, in a dual core processor, one core will always become unstable before the other.

They're all different. 8O