Question Intel Q6600 processor is heating up

[garvind25]

Hi,



The CPU of my PC is heating up. It is shooting up to 90 degree Celsius. I am using the original fan and original heat sink. The CPU is Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600.

I am using Core Temp to monitor its temperature. I tried to solve the problem by cleaning the heat sink and applying new thermal paste (after scratching off the old paste). This reduced the peak temperatures from 90 deg Celsius to 80 degree Celsius. These temperatures are when I am running Youtube videos on Mozilla Firefox. My PC is on Windows 7 32 bit.

How do I further reduce the CPU temperature pls?



Thanks and Regards,

Arvind Gupta

 

[Eximo]

I would think that even simple video playback these days might cause quite a bit of trouble for an older CPU. Is it running at 100% usage on the core(s) when you do so, then I would say it might be fairly normal.

A better cooler may help. But not sure I would invest much in a Q6600. That is a 17 year old processor, for all we know the heatspreader/STIM is coming part under there. Or the chip has started an internal fault.

What does CoreTemp say the power draw is?

 

[garvind25]

I would think that even simple video playback these days might cause quite a bit of trouble for an older CPU. Is it running at 100% usage on the core(s) when you do so, then I would say it might be fairly normal.

A better cooler may help. But not sure I would invest much in a Q6600. That is a 17 year old processor, for all we know the heatspreader/STIM is coming part under there. Or the chip has started an internal fault.

What does CoreTemp say the power draw is?

Thanks for your reply. When I am running a YouTube video, i am getting fairly high memory usage with high CPU temperatures. The metrics are as follows:

CPU: 30%
Physical Memory : 75% ( I have DDR3 4 GB RAM at 1333 MHz)
Core Temp: 75 to 80 degree Celsius

However when I am running a video on VLC player I am getting the following stats:

CPU: 30%
Physical Memory : 50%
Core Temp: 59 -60 degree Celsius

where to check for power draw in core temp pls? I am on core temp 1.18.1

Regards,
Arvind.

 

[Eximo]

Well, the CPU might be too old to report its power draw. I never owned one, so not sure. I was all AMD back then.

Ideally you would look at the logical cores, not the overall percentage. But it does seem like the browser is causing a lot of overhead, which I would expect.

Your CPU cores are about 1/3 the speed of the cheapest Intel chips available today.

Given that is a 105W TDP CPU I would expect it to run pretty warm. A newer chip would be vastly more efficient. Even an older 4th gen i5l CPU that still uses DDR3 would more than double performance.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...l-i3-10100-vs-Intel-i3-12100-vs-Intel-i5-4670

Another 4GB of memory would also be advisable if you are going to keep using a browser for video playback.

 

[Bob.B]

Thanks for your reply. When I am running a YouTube video, i am getting fairly high memory usage with high CPU temperatures. The metrics are as follows:

CPU: 30%
Physical Memory : 75% ( I have DDR3 4 GB RAM at 1333 MHz)
Core Temp: 75 to 80 degree Celsius

However when I am running a video on VLC player I am getting the following stats:

CPU: 30%
Physical Memory : 50%
Core Temp: 59 -60 degree Celsius

where to check for power draw in core temp pls? I am on core temp 1.18.1

Regards,
Arvind.

FF/settings/general/perf......play with that see if it makes a diff.

 

[garvind25]

FF/settings/general/perf......play with that see if it makes a diff.

This setting is selected by default. I tried by unselecting it as well... no joy.