E6600 TEMPS TOO HOT 75+!?!?!?!

[BigCharb]

SUP, i have a newly built comp that i planned to reach 4Ghz with, i did but with problems. i reached 4005 MHz but with 85+temps which lead to my comp crashing within 3 minuets. i lowered my speed to 3.8 but with temps at 75+, AT IDLE. i am now running my comp at 2.6 with 60 degree temps, still idle. i have a water cooling kit coming in a week. i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust. are my temps normal? thanks

 

[bazza]

if you want your CPU to last more a few years then keep the temp under 70degC

if you plan on upgrading within the warranty then doesnt matter as long as it's stable

 

[apache_lives]

SUP, i have a newly built comp that i planned to reach 4Ghz with, i did but with problems. i reached 4005 MHz but with 85+temps which lead to my comp crashing within 3 minuets. i lowered my speed to 3.8 but with temps at 75+, AT IDLE. i am now running my comp at 2.6 with 60 degree temps, still idle. i have a water cooling kit coming in a week. i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust. are my temps normal? thanks

wait wait, you tried that on stock cooling!?!?!?

and BTW with a decent case and airflow, even my E6600 @ 3200(400x8) gets ~58*c under load with stock cooling (done with stock vcore with everything bar ram)

 

[BigCharb]

Yah, I've done all of my over clocking with the stock fan. i would like to know what are the max acceptable temps that i should be reading for my CPU. i personally think that anything above 50 is hot, let alone 60+. l8er

 

[tool_462]

I'm not surprised to see temps like that at the clock speeds you are saying, on the stock cooler.

Not too smart to keep OCing on stock air like that, give it some water or at least a better air cooler before you attempt to reach 4ghz again.

Full load with both cores @ 100% usage should be under 60C. Preferably lower, but that is a personal preference and I don't like seeing 50C on my hardware.

 

[eatinpaper]

SUP, i have a newly built comp that i planned to reach 4Ghz with, i did but with problems. i reached 4005 MHz but with 85+temps which lead to my comp crashing within 3 minuets. i lowered my speed to 3.8 but with temps at 75+, AT IDLE. i am now running my comp at 2.6 with 60 degree temps, still idle. i have a water cooling kit coming in a week. i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust. are my temps normal? thanks

wait wait, you tried that on stock cooling!?!?!?

and BTW with a decent case and airflow, even my E6600 @ 3200(400x8) gets ~58*c under load with stock cooling (done with stock vcore with everything bar ram)
First of all, why do you have an E6600 with a multiplier of 8? If you are trying to lie, poorly I might add, then don't bother to post lies. Second, if you just typed a typo or something, I apologize. I would like to ask you (if you are really telling the truth about your system) how you managed to get those temps on stock cooling. I got an E6400, hoping to overclock, and my temps under load are 57 degrees without any overclocking. This is on a scythe infinity cooler with an upgraded fan and I just can't figure out what is the problem. And to BigCharb, were you getting lower temps before you overclocked at idle? If so, I think that you may have ruined something. When I recently built my computer for some reason I was getting temps in the 80's when I turned my comp on. I re-applied my thermal compound and here I am. 57 degrees under load, no attempts at overclocking yet.

 

[Zorg]

Apache is not lying 400 x 8 does = 3200. Oops the multiplier is locked at 9 haha. I have a Northwood 3.4 running @ 15g with temps hovering around 40c with 110% load. Top that if you can. And I am not lying so don't even accuse me.

 

[sruane]

Apache is not lying 400 x 8 does = 3200. Oops the multiplier is locked at 9 haha

No it isn't. I lowered the multiplier on my E6600 from 9 to 8.

 

[eatinpaper]

Does lowering the multiplier help a lot? Doesn't it just make your comp slower?

 

[sruane]

Does lowering the multiplier help a lot? Doesn't it just make your comp slower?

I lowered the multiplier and raised the FSB. My FSB is set at 400. 400x8 is 3.2GHz.

This lets me run my DDR2-800 memory at 1:1, which is the only reason I did it. Leaving the multiplier at 9 would have driven the processor at 3.6GHz, which would be a mite much, I think.

 

[shinigamiX]

SUP, i have a newly built comp that i planned to reach 4Ghz with, i did but with problems. i reached 4005 MHz but with 85+temps which lead to my comp crashing within 3 minuets. i lowered my speed to 3.8 but with temps at 75+, AT IDLE. i am now running my comp at 2.6 with 60 degree temps, still idle. i have a water cooling kit coming in a week. i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust. are my temps normal? thanks

wait wait, you tried that on stock cooling!?!?!?

and BTW with a decent case and airflow, even my E6600 @ 3200(400x8) gets ~58*c under load with stock cooling (done with stock vcore with everything bar ram)
First of all, why do you have an E6600 with a multiplier of 8? If you are trying to lie, poorly I might add, then don't bother to post lies. Second, if you just typed a typo or something, I apologize. I would like to ask you (if you are really telling the truth about your system) how you managed to get those temps on stock cooling. I got an E6400, hoping to overclock, and my temps under load are 57 degrees without any overclocking. This is on a scythe infinity cooler with an upgraded fan and I just can't figure out what is the problem. And to BigCharb, were you getting lower temps before you overclocked at idle? If so, I think that you may have ruined something. When I recently built my computer for some reason I was getting temps in the 80's when I turned my comp on. I re-applied my thermal compound and here I am. 57 degrees under load, no attempts at overclocking yet.
Some new BIOS revisions allow users to lower multipliers iirc.

 

[Zorg]

My bad. I didn't think the 6600 was unlocked up or down. Please understand my skepticism, I have seen a lot of extreme numbers on air cooling and I always wonder whether they are BS or really stable under burn in conditions. Just because you can get a screen shot of cpuz doesn't mean that you have a stable overclock.

 

[sruane]

My bad. I didn't think the 6600 was unlocked up or down. Please understand my skepticism, I have seen a lot of extreme numbers on air cooling and I always wonder whether they are BS or really stable under burn in conditions. Just because you can get a screen shot of cpuz doesn't mean that you have a stable overclock.

I'm running an E6600 at 3.2GHz on air. Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6. Dual prime 95 stable. And at this particular moment my temp is 40C. Stock Vcore, but I raised the FSB voltage (+0.1v) and vdimm (+0.2v).

Check this out:

 

[rwaritsdario]

ROFL you tried it at stock!
Now I bet you see what I meant that the cooling was a very important part of OCing...
I consider >75c on TAT or CoreTemp to be safe at load. And this is a personal estimate since temps are tricky to read. Voltage is far more important tough.

 

[Zorg]

At this particular moment, as in while running prime, or at idle? Because, correct me if I am wrong, the core2 will throttle the multiplier if the load is reduced and even run at 30c. 40c with 800Mhz overclock running 2 instances of prime95 is a little harder to believe. I didn't say impossible just very hard for me to believe. 50-60+ sure but 40 must be a magical heatsink.

 

[sruane]

At this particular moment, as in while running prime, or at idle? Because, correct me if I am wrong, the core2 will throttle the multiplier if the load is reduced and even run at 30c. 40c with 800Mhz overclock running 2 instances of prime95 is a little harder to believe. I didn't say impossible just very hard for me to believe. 50-60+ sure but 40 must be a magical heatsink.

No, it hits 57-60 while running two instances of prime 95. It idles in the upper 30s, and happened to be 40 when I wrote that last.

 

[Zorg]

That's certainly believable.

 

[apache_lives]

SUP, i have a newly built comp that i planned to reach 4Ghz with, i did but with problems. i reached 4005 MHz but with 85+temps which lead to my comp crashing within 3 minuets. i lowered my speed to 3.8 but with temps at 75+, AT IDLE. i am now running my comp at 2.6 with 60 degree temps, still idle. i have a water cooling kit coming in a week. i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust. are my temps normal? thanks

wait wait, you tried that on stock cooling!?!?!?

and BTW with a decent case and airflow, even my E6600 @ 3200(400x8) gets ~58*c under load with stock cooling (done with stock vcore with everything bar ram)
First of all, why do you have an E6600 with a multiplier of 8? If you are trying to lie, poorly I might add, then don't bother to post lies. Second, if you just typed a typo or something, I apologize. I would like to ask you (if you are really telling the truth about your system) how you managed to get those temps on stock cooling. I got an E6400, hoping to overclock, and my temps under load are 57 degrees without any overclocking. This is on a scythe infinity cooler with an upgraded fan and I just can't figure out what is the problem. And to BigCharb, were you getting lower temps before you overclocked at idle? If so, I think that you may have ruined something. When I recently built my computer for some reason I was getting temps in the 80's when I turned my comp on. I re-applied my thermal compound and here I am. 57 degrees under load, no attempts at overclocking yet.

you sir are an ass

THERE UNLOCKED DOWNWARD, AND THE HIGHER FSB PAYS OFF BETTER THEN A FEW MORE CLOCK SPEED MHZ, AND ON STOCK COOLING I DONT DARE TEMPT 3.6GHZ

:roll: NOOBZ

sruane - My P5B Deluxe Wifi runs everything on stock vcore bar ram (+0.1v).

And er, BigCharb "i have a 90 millimeter optional fan on the side as an exhaust" - reverse it so it blows in on the components, front fans also to suck in and rear fans and psu to blow out 😉

 

[apache_lives]

oh and um heres a nice pic for your convenience 😉 and today sofar has been the hottest day of spring - 62*c under load now.

Waiting for my TT Big Typhoon

 

[Jenica]

Greetings, first post, and I rather not make a new thread, as this one fits.

I got a Core2Duo 6600 as well, and I have been searching quite a bit, but haven't found much really on the max temperature allowed for this particular CPU. I got mine stable at 3.2Ghz (400*8 ), temperature is hovering between 51c and 55c under load.. but so far its fairly cool where I live, so am not sure how far up it can go before any hardware damage will occur (as long as its stable too, obviously).
I tried to look it up on Intel's tech documents for this CPU, but frankly, I know to little of all the technical terms in there to actually understand it 🙁

If someone would be so kind and maybe provide a link or just post it here, what are considered max save temperatures for the 6600, that would be great (assuming the system runs stable). Or is simply that the system will become unstable due to high temperatures before it actually damages the hardware. I think I got a decent system and still some room upwards, but I don't want to damage any hardware, hence my question.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie questions.

 

[sruane]

Greetings, first post, and I rather not make a new thread, as this one fits.

I got a Core2Duo 6600 as well, and I have been searching quite a bit, but haven't found much really on the max temperature allowed for this particular CPU. I got mine stable at 3.2Ghz (400*8 ), temperature is hovering between 51c and 55c under load.. but so far its fairly cool where I live, so am not sure how far up it can go before any hardware damage will occur (as long as its stable too, obviously).
I tried to look it up on Intel's tech documents for this CPU, but frankly, I know to little of all the technical terms in there to actually understand it 🙁

If someone would be so kind and maybe provide a link or just post it here, what are considered max save temperatures for the 6600, that would be great (assuming the system runs stable). Or is simply that the system will become unstable due to high temperatures before it actually damages the hardware. I think I got a decent system and still some room upwards, but I don't want to damage any hardware, hence my question.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie questions.

According to Intel's documentation, the temperature should not exceed 60.1C

 

[13thmonkey]

Greetings, first post, and I rather not make a new thread, as this one fits.

I got a Core2Duo 6600 as well, and I have been searching quite a bit, but haven't found much really on the max temperature allowed for this particular CPU. I got mine stable at 3.2Ghz (400*8 ), temperature is hovering between 51c and 55c under load.. but so far its fairly cool where I live, so am not sure how far up it can go before any hardware damage will occur (as long as its stable too, obviously).
I tried to look it up on Intel's tech documents for this CPU, but frankly, I know to little of all the technical terms in there to actually understand it 🙁

If someone would be so kind and maybe provide a link or just post it here, what are considered max save temperatures for the 6600, that would be great (assuming the system runs stable). Or is simply that the system will become unstable due to high temperatures before it actually damages the hardware. I think I got a decent system and still some room upwards, but I don't want to damage any hardware, hence my question.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie questions.

According to Intel's documentation, the temperature should not exceed 60.1C

It is thought that 85C in coretemp = 60.1C at the diode that switches the thermal cut out on, as at 85C in coretemp is when the thermal throttling starts. Apparently. I've never gotten anywhere near 85 in coretemp or TAT.

 

[nukemaster]

Greetings, first post, and I rather not make a new thread, as this one fits.

I got a Core2Duo 6600 as well, and I have been searching quite a bit, but haven't found much really on the max temperature allowed for this particular CPU. I got mine stable at 3.2Ghz (400*8 ), temperature is hovering between 51c and 55c under load.. but so far its fairly cool where I live, so am not sure how far up it can go before any hardware damage will occur (as long as its stable too, obviously).
I tried to look it up on Intel's tech documents for this CPU, but frankly, I know to little of all the technical terms in there to actually understand it 🙁

If someone would be so kind and maybe provide a link or just post it here, what are considered max save temperatures for the 6600, that would be great (assuming the system runs stable). Or is simply that the system will become unstable due to high temperatures before it actually damages the hardware. I think I got a decent system and still some room upwards, but I don't want to damage any hardware, hence my question.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie questions.

According to Intel's documentation, the temperature should not exceed 60.1C

Thats 60.1 at the center of the heatspreader(on the topside).......not in the core.....so I would say about 70 or so.....

Linkage

 

[gorforg]

I would upgrade the stock fan. Thermaltake and Zalman carry very decent overclocking products. If you dont want to splurge on a water cooling kit, I would recommend a large copper based heatsic with a larger fan. However, reguardless of what you deside, I would defininaly reccomend exchaning the stock cpu paste with artic silver, if you have not done so already. Remember to use only the recommended amount and be sure not to overdue it. In addition make sure that you start with absloutly clean surfaces on the bottom of the fan and on the top of the cpu. If you would like the fan rpm to remain @ high, use the power comming directly from the p/s and bypass the mb onboard fan power w/bios monitor. This should correct your heat issue.


Here are some helpful links:

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/Cooler/CPUCoolers/Intel/LGA775/L...75_inde

http://www.zalmantech.com/

http://www.arcticsilver.com/


Peace

 

[Jenica]

Greetings, first post, and I rather not make a new thread, as this one fits.

I got a Core2Duo 6600 as well, and I have been searching quite a bit, but haven't found much really on the max temperature allowed for this particular CPU. I got mine stable at 3.2Ghz (400*8 ), temperature is hovering between 51c and 55c under load.. but so far its fairly cool where I live, so am not sure how far up it can go before any hardware damage will occur (as long as its stable too, obviously).
I tried to look it up on Intel's tech documents for this CPU, but frankly, I know to little of all the technical terms in there to actually understand it 🙁

If someone would be so kind and maybe provide a link or just post it here, what are considered max save temperatures for the 6600, that would be great (assuming the system runs stable). Or is simply that the system will become unstable due to high temperatures before it actually damages the hardware. I think I got a decent system and still some room upwards, but I don't want to damage any hardware, hence my question.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie questions.

According to Intel's documentation, the temperature should not exceed 60.1C

Thats 60.1 at the center of the heatspreader(on the topside).......not in the core.....so I would say about 70 or so.....

Linkage
Thanks for the quick replies guys, I appreciate it. Quick follow up question, I am currently using Speedfan (4.31) to monitor the CPU. So 70°c on that reading and below should be ok, if I understand this right (again, if its stable of course) ?