High q6600 temps

[ali_james]

Hi there

Reading the ocz vendetta review, my quad seems to be running rather hot. I'm hitting 65+ degrees at stock voltage and 3ghz at load. The cooler is a Scythe Mugen (Infinity) and the TIM is AS5. Is there a chance my IHS on the cpu is wonky and worth lapping? I've ordered a new case, Coolermaster 690, so maybe that could do the job and cool it a bit better? Any ideas?

Cheers guys

[Luigi]

unless you go over around 75 degrees, it should be fine.

It may be your cooler, the latest scythe coolers are a bit pants, yu might want to try a freezer 7 pro cooler.

[SBB]

Make sure your heatsink is making good contact with your CPU and that there is not too much or too little TIM.

What prog are you using to measure, some are V. innacurate

[ali_james]

I use either coretemp or cpuid hardware monitor. I have a beep set in the BIOS for when its cpu temperature measurement goes over 65 degrees, however this isn't the temperature of the cores, as there is only one value, so I guess this could be the IHS's temp? When I touch the heatsink it doesn't ever feel warm or hot like my old amd coolers did so I don't think its as though the heatsink is getting saturated with too much heat. I think maybe theres not enough pressure on the chip from the mounting? I've seen forums with guides on how to replace the intel pins with bolts etc which I might look into.

I fancy watercooling at some point, so really if this is a big problem I'll hold off until then.

[ali_james]

Righttttt! The good news.. Pull the cooler off, gave it all a clean. Re-fitted the AS5. Fitted the cooler in the opposition orientation.

It was a complete PITA to get the damn pins in, one of which I think wasn't going in before. Now I've got lovely temps Under 40 at load, which is excellent IMO!

Happy now

Cheers guys!

[Pat123]

i had the exact same problem back with my E6400 back when i was on air. The temps were stupidly high at stock settings. Took it off, realised i hadnt clicked one of the pins in properly duh..

[ali_james]

Yeah silly little b@$tard things! Was a real effort to get the last one in, looks like it was bending my damn motherboard quite a bit

Still, temps are looking great now

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

What pins are you guys talking of??

I did as you did ali, removed the TIM and re-applied, temps went down a little.

[ali_james]

http://www.frozencpu.com/images/vh/thermal01_sm.jpg

The little horrible plastic pins . I think you coolers screws down doesn't it? If I get any more problem I will try to mod the mount to make it stay down. Think it might have happened while in the car coming to uni and just wobbled itself loose.

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

Ah those lol . Yes mine has screws, thank god they weren't bolts like my old thermaltake big typhoon.. I had to bolt that down using nuts and a spanner, total pita to fit/remove (have to take the mobo out of the case to remove the hsf!).