whats ur q6600 temperature?

mine is

IDLE is around 43 Celsius

LOAD with prime is 66 Celsius

I am using thermalright 120 extreme heatsink though my temp kinda high.

mine is

IDLE is around 43 Celsius

LOAD with prime is 66 Celsius

I am using thermalright 120 extreme heatsink though my temp kinda high.

metroid_mario

Haven't tested my load temps but my idle temps are 38 C, with a Zalman 9700 which is 'supposed' to be weaker than that thermalright.

Well my room temp is about 78f (25c). I am water-cooling my Q6600.

Stock, it idled around 30ish and would just hit 40c under load.

Overclocked to 3.2 GHz I idle at about 34-36c. After a little more than an hour of prime 95 I was getting just under 50c, every once and a while hitting 51c.

Depends on many factors... good thermal paste and well applyed, heat sink real right, ambient temperature, good air flow in case...Bebi_vegeta

I tried the versions of CoreTemp that have been recommended, but they seem to be incompatible with my system's current software. I execute them, nothing happens. I wait a bit. Nothing. I check the task manager and my system crashes. They were virus free, according to AVG. What's up with that? Conflict somewhere... Hmmmm... Need to find a temp monitor that works with quads. I've tried, PCWizard, which worked on my old Northwood, but claims my Q6600 is running over 200c and @+5Ghz. That's just so wrong. Unless.... No, no...it has to be wrong. LOL! :lol: SiSoftSandra07 says my cores are running at idle in the low to mid 20c range, but I'm told it can't be trusted. I check the BIOS and it tells my my proc is idling at 19c (ambient is 20c), so that seems off. I've tried SpeedFan and it says core1 = 20c, core2 = 22c, core3 = 19c and core4 = 17c. Those seem too low. Lastly, I opened the Gigabyte utility called EasyTune5 and checked the hardware monitor. It reads the CPU at 17c at idle. So what? Do I add them all up and average the difference? Confused much. Any suggestions? :shock: :? :|Sentinel672002

Try ultimate everest.

yep Lavalys Everest Ultimate is the bomb. I love it. I dont have a Q6600 yet, but temps of the 40s should be loads, depending on program, room temp, paste, cooler.

My Intel E6420 @ 2.13Ghz idles at 19c and loads at 27c on Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and Arctic Silver 5 paste9mmSpliff

I tried the versions of CoreTemp that have been recommended, but they seem to be incompatible with my system's current software. I execute them, nothing happens. I wait a bit. Nothing. I check the task manager and my system crashes. They were virus free, according to AVG. What's up with that? Conflict somewhere... Hmmmm... Need to find a temp monitor that works with quads. I've tried, PCWizard, which worked on my old Northwood, but claims my Q6600 is running over 200c and @+5Ghz. That's just so wrong. Unless.... No, no...it has to be wrong. LOL! :lol: SiSoftSandra07 says my cores are running at idle in the low to mid 20c range, but I'm told it can't be trusted. I check the BIOS and it tells my my proc is idling at 19c (ambient is 20c), so that seems off. I've tried SpeedFan and it says core1 = 20c, core2 = 22c, core3 = 19c and core4 = 17c. Those seem too low. Lastly, I opened the Gigabyte utility called EasyTune5 and checked the hardware monitor. It reads the CPU at 17c at idle. So what? Do I add them all up and average the difference? Confused much. Any suggestions? :shock: :? :|Sentinel672002

And to the original poster I'm betting it is because of a concave heatsink base. The thermalrights have a problem with some pretty uneven bases. I suggest you see if that's your problem, then if it's not, you will have to reapply thermal paste anyway :).

Ok, this is what everest ultimate says, with an ambient room temperature of 22c.

Load (Prime95+AVG Virus Scan+SiSoftSandra CPU Arithmetic Bench)

Idle

Ok, this is what everest ultimate says, with an ambient room temperature of 22c.

Load (Prime95+AVG Virus Scan+SiSoftSandra CPU Arithmetic Bench)

Idle

Sentinel672002

[QUOTE="9mmSpliff"]yep Lavalys Everest Ultimate is the bomb. I love it. I dont have a Q6600 yet, but temps of the 40s should be loads, depending on program, room temp, paste, cooler.

My Intel E6420 @ 2.13Ghz idles at 19c and loads at 27c on Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and Arctic Silver 5 pasteMakari

I think 50% of my friends who had C2D jumped to Q6600 when it dropped. Thats around 7 guys. I have turned a lot of people into PC people now. I got all their load temps in the high 40s running AVG, Spybot, Adaware and a copy of Oblivion. I only use AS5, High end coolers (Tuniqs, Ultra 120, Ultra 120 Extreme, 9700s, etc). I did however lap the heatspreader on ones that were uneven. So yes I know that. I expect to hit about low 40s, but I have mad cooling in my setup.

Youre right if it was overclocked, 50s no problem.

My temps are Core 1 - 18c, Core 2 - 23c and overall 19c for idle. Im running 4x120mm (80cfm) on case, 92mm (40cfm) and my lapped Ultra 120 Extreme has a 120mm (80cfm on it)

[QUOTE="Sentinel672002"]

Ok, this is what everest ultimate says, with an ambient room temperature of 22c.

Load (Prime95+AVG Virus Scan+SiSoftSandra CPU Arithmetic Bench)

Idle

Makari

I wanted to run multiple instances of Prime, setting the affinity of each to a different core, but only one instance of Prime would open at a time. Sandra taxes all the cores at 100% by itself, but only for short periods. Picture me, waiting for one arithmetic bench to complete, so I could click he "run" button again...LOL! To add a bit more stress I threw in an AVG virus scan as well...keeps at least some load on the four cores, between the Sandra runs (note the dips in the core usage). I only tested for about thirty minutes, since the CPU temps pretty much leveled off where they're pictured, give or take a degree, or two either way...well that and I was tired of clickin' Sandra's run button...:P

Ok figured out the reason why my computer keeps shutting down. CPU temp was 88 celcius ... glad I caught that before I melted my processor

i think there is so many variance in temps... i mean if i use my computer at night its 10c in my room..... during the day it could be 30c.... i think a good average for room temp is like 25c which is why i find it hard to believe people who say there cpu's idle at sub 30 temps unless they are using there pc's in really cold rooms.... but then its unfair to compare those results with someone with a hotter room.... i think its better to compare diffrence from ambient to idle temps.

Ok figured out the reason why my computer keeps shutting down. CPU temp was 88 celcius ... glad I caught that before I melted my processor

SimpJee

Hope it's not damaged.

I wanted to run multiple instances of Prime, setting the affinity of each to a different core, but only one instance of Prime would open at a time.Sentinel672002

[QUOTE="Sentinel672002"]I wanted to run multiple instances of Prime, setting the affinity of each to a different core, but only one instance of Prime would open at a time.Makari

Ooops. I downloaded the v24.14 one. :? I'll look for the one you mentioned. ;)

88c? wow...dust, seating, or loose heatspreader?9mmSpliff

Loose heatspreader. Thought I was going to snap my mobo in half trying to get the thing on,but I tried again and got it in. Cut the heatby more than half.

after lapping my thermalright 120 extrme heatsink

IDLE
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/4420/idlesa0.jpg

LOAD
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4897/loadgh0.jpg

are this temperature normal now?