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03-28-08, 03:02 PM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
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I have two Q6600s... The first is water cooled at 3.2Ghz and it hits 42C under load. The second is in an open case with a Scythe Infinity and it doesn't go above 45C under full load at 3.0Ghz. You should probably get a different cooler, the ThermalRight Ultra 120 Extreme is by far the most popular choice. To start with maybe you could take the cover off the case and see what kind of temps you get. If that deosn't help dramatically you should also make sure that your heatsink is properly mounted, your temps seem too high even for the stock cooler at 2.4Ghz.
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03-28-08, 10:31 PM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
I just got a Antec 900 and the core idle temps have now dropped to 36 Deg C. So thats about 10 Deg C under what my old case was producing.
After running prime95 for about 5 min the temps slowing started to reach 70 Deg c again but at least this did not happed after only 20 sec like the old box. I am starting to think my mate who originally put this system together did not use that heat paste stuff that you put between your heat sink and the CPU as I don't remember suppling him with any and I don't think he would have had any lying around. Could that be the reason for the high temps??? cheers, Andy. |
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03-28-08, 11:17 PM
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Those temps are normal, in my case I would get about the same on the stock cooler mainly due to the CPU VID being so high (I got unlucky). |
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03-29-08, 12:42 AM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
The stock cooler comes with some thermal paste already on it, it's not very good but it's there. I still think your temps are a bit high. Did you have a chance to read the the VID from CoreTemp? Regardless, it looks like you're going to need to get yourself a new CPU heatsink and fan, go for the TRUE.
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03-31-08, 04:08 AM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
Core Temp reports the VID at 1.2875v at idle.
CPUZ has the core voltage at 1.152v at idle and the multiplier at x 6.0 with a core speed of 1600. Of course this increases under load to 2400. are these voltages normal??? thanks again everyone. |
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03-31-08, 04:41 PM
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04-01-08, 08:34 PM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
Yea I guess cooling the CPU better would be the right approach. ATM I don't need to OC the CPU yet as it plays games like Crisis fine on 1280 res with max everything except AA is set to X4 not X8...
Is their a noticeable difference going from the stock 2.4 to 3.0 in performance that is? |
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04-01-08, 11:30 PM
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Re: My setup and how to improve it
Hmmm, I don't game all that much so I couldn't really tell you.
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