Re: CPU Temp Question Concerning Core 2 Quad

Bitstring <6ghnp3p7pup116oks9os30jn19s8nnvpph@xxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person soinie@xxxxxxxxxxxx said
I'm running a Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4 ghz and the temp when idle is about
25C according to Asus PC Probe II, although I've seen it up to 34C
with tasking. I want to moderately over clock this (P5E WS Pro) setup
and would like to know what to look for in terms of temp increases and
what might be considered a threshold temp. I'm using a Scythe Mini
Ninja and Arctic Silver 5, and thanks to those who recommended an
after-market heat sink.

Heat is not going to be the problem - there is a thermal protection mechanism on the die, iirc, and probably another on the motherboard, and you are ~30 degrees the right side of a problem anyway. If the CPU gets too hot it will throttle the clock back.

If you (have to, or choose to) ramp the VCore up too far in pursuit of extra GhZ then you may fry something .. but It'll be volts and not degrees C that does the damage.

Before you go overclocking though, try a PROPER stress test at your current clock rate - Prime95 torture test (maybe 4 copies, one pointed at each core - I don't think the current one knows about loading more than one core at once).

34c is 'loafing' IMO, but then it's hard to really work 4 cores in everyday use. This assumes it's being measured right - not always the case with Asus Mobos (what's the case temperature registering at? Heck, how cold is the room it is in??)

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