I have my Q6600 overclocked at 3.3ghz (1.36250v & +0.1v on DDR2) My cooler is a xigmatek s1283 and i am using AS5. I have since lapped the CPU which seems to have helped a little (2c) and obviously reseated the cooler. I didn't feel the need to lap the cooler as it is already flat. I know there is a burn in period for the AS5 to cure but I have reached 65c on 2 of the cores at full load; when stress testing in Prime95. Should I be getting better temps than this with a s1283? (I have also done some 3d rendering in autocad which loads the cores at 100% and the hottest core is reaching around 57c. ...I also use the pc for gaming) Would i be best off dropping down to 3.2ghz with a lower vcore instead so that I am operating at safer temps.
Yowza. I thought max suggested temp for the Q6600 was 71C. Can someone explain to me what Tcase and Tjunction really mean? I have temp readings for all of my individual cores and the CPU in general as well. I assume the first place to overheat would be an individual core so I try to keep all those temps under 65 to be on the safe side.
well i have dropped my clock speed to stable 3.2ghz on 1.3250. Full load on prime (8-9hrs) has reached 59c on the hottest core so i'm happy with that. But I'd like to get to 3.4ghz with good temps. I can get to 3.4ghz but it was reaching 68-69c. Is it worth lapping the s1283 aswell? I have heard mixed opinions about this.
71 is the main CPU temp limit, when my cores hit 79C, my main CPU temp was only 61C, so I had 10 degrees to spare. IntelBurnTest raises your temps far higher than any real application though, so it's nothing to be concerned about.
I didn't know that? I have been told to keep max core temps under 60-65 as 71c was the limit. I didn't realise that it only applied to the cpu temp itself.
Nah, it wouldn't make sense for that to be the case, at full load you could reach 71C on the cores with the stock cooler if the CPU was just stock, no overclocking at all. I used to have an Athlon XP 3000+ CPU which ran well above 71C for several hours a day for several months, and it survived that intact, I dread to think what the core temp would have been, CPUs didn't have a means of measuring those back then (either that or the software didn't exist to read the measurements). The emergency shutdown temperature for a CPU is typically 80ºC (main temperature) and even if you reach it, the CPU is safe, it just means you have to do something about it ;-)
so in that case, i could push it to 3.4 then. would you recommend lapping the s1283? (I know i said it was flat, but thats just by eye. I havn't used a razor or anything)
well my load temps are ok but my idle temps are in the 40's majority of the time. Shouldn't they be in low 30's at idle?
