My understanding comes from your screen capture.
You are making too many assumptions and drawing too many erroneous conclusions from my screen capture. I have been building systems for a while now. When you install your processor next week I doubt very seriously you will get the kind of temps I am able to achieve. Even under 105w load, the Q6600 has no problems. The Q6700 draws 130w. If you read my posts, I said sure, "If you run the voltage up you are going to get heat." Doesn't the QX6800 run four cores without 'MELTING". You may be a nice guy, but you are obsessed with wattage a cpu draws and the idea a chip manfacturer like Intel doesn't know WHAT they are doing. What heat? The Q6600 runs exceptionally cool for the 105w it draws.
As you know it showed a usage under 11%
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At 99% usage the temps would be well within the chip's stated specs.
I'd be very interested to see the heat after a few minutes with 100% on all four cores.
I have 14 case fans in my system. Eleven 120 mm fans for starters. I'm sincerely curious, how many do you have in your 950? First intake, then exhaust for starters.
If your heat is still low then I'd follow your advice about the less expensive heat sink.
The Zalman 9500/9700 are solid hsf's. I use 5 of them currently. q6600, e6600, 4800x2, amd64 3700, fx55. All are doing an admirable job keeping my systems cool every day.
I'd like to save the $70 nice to be able to aford a movie or two.
Buy gold with it and go to the movies all month when your 73.
Yes, I replaced the case as well. It didn't stop the thermal events.
Recently, My ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe started crashing and restarting periodiocally. Thermal event I though at first. I took off the overclock for starters, ran at BIOS default. Problem persisted. I added an exhaust pci blower and a 90 mm fan directly over the dual 16 x NB. I moved the soundcard to better vent the second 7800GT. Still getting periodic system crashes/restarts. I noticed the Enermax 525w 18/18 amp 12v psu was breathing fire. I swapped it out for a 680w 22/24 amp 12v. I have not had a single problem with the system since, it runs almost 24/7. All the cooling tidbits I did improved the temps all around on probably the most notorious chipset/board ever manufactured where excessive heat is involved.
The 800 series was not intended for 100% use on both cores. (This was an expensive lession)
I'm a bit lost on this comment, are you saying that a different power supply would improve a CPU's heat problems?
A hot, underamped PSU will definately cause excessive heat on any system. Simple fact.
I want to make sure I understand you correctly. You are running both cores at 100% for five minutes or more?
I have never had any problem whatsoever with heat on this machine. Are you familiar with Pinnacle Studio software. I copy VHS tape onto an internal HD, edit it and burn DVD's of the finished product. My system works so well I never thought to check the temps. I trust the 'guys'
at Intel to insure the q6600 is capable of running at 100% for at least 5 minutes. Without failing if you are asking.
I had considered this but the big improvement with the TEC is that is works very well even with a high ambient temperature.
This conversation caused me to search around the net around the forums and Intel, and I really don't see where the average q6600 owner is experiencing any 'defect' with their processors. I do read 3.2 ghz is about as far as the processor will clock. You think heat is the only issue causing this? Not on your life. It's not a fair comparison, but I have two 2.4 ghz. AMD processors running currently. A 4800 X2 (in the A8n32SLI I mentioned) and an AMD64 2.4 Newcastle. Neither will clock near 3.0 GHZ. The closest I have to an AMD processor running at 3 ghz. is an FX55 at 2.8+ (don't wan't to shortchange it, it's a great processor). My point is this. When you get your q6600 and drop it in and fire it up, you will be so happy overclocking it might not occur to you for days. Well an hour anyway.
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