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that is kinda toasty...... what are your load temps?? are they 67c???
if there that high at 3.0GHz yes!!! you need a new HS, are you using the stock cooler???
Where do people come up with this stuff? How is 40C idle toasty? What are you basing that assumption on?
Perhaps he is refferring to the title of the thread which stated 67C in which case I'd tend to agree that that's a bit too high. Overclocked processors don't have the luxury of being able to run as hot as a stock one and still maintain stability. So while a stock clocked Q6600 will be fun at running ~20C under TJ Max, that is not the case for an OCed processor.
No, it is the case for an overclocked processor. These chips are rated to 105c maximum TJ with a thermal HALT of 120c.
Temperature has relatively zero effect on stability with the C2D series until you get into their throttle zones.
Temperature has relatively zero effect on stability with the C2D series until you get into their throttle zones.
You need to do more testing before posting stuff like that.
1.15v VID Q6600?
Gimme!
1.15V VID Q6600 - now that is rather special !!! mine is a joke at 1.325V
Below a certain threshold (~1.2) they've been shown to do very well up to a point, usually 3.4-3.5 Ghz, then just top out. So if you're going for max clock, lowest VID is not necessarily your goal. If you want reasonably high clock and low voltage/heat, yes, that's ideal.
I've done loads, and loads of testing with upwards of 10 Q6600's, 15 E6300s and many X2 AMD64 chips...
The only ones that failed while overclocking were the X2's which would fail p95 (2.9ghz) if their temperature passed the 55-60c mark. I've run my current Q6600 @ 3600mhz all the way up to 94c with no stability issues. Additionally, when searching for my Q6600 from the box of them I got (finally settled on one with a VID of 1.15v!!!) I pushed every chip to the absolute limit so I could "bin" them for customers.
As I said, I noticed no loss in stability at 80c 3600mhz on any of the G0 Quads (although, some that would post at 4ghz, wouldn't prime over 3.9ghz when above 75c)... Additionally, most watercoolers will agree that watercooling will not increase your maximum overclock, even if it decreases your temperatures.
So you run Prime95 for fun?
Or do your other games/apps ever actually hit 67C? Or just Prime95?
Why do you care about your peak Prime95 temp? Nothing you ever do *for real* with that processor will ever load you that much. 40C idle is fine. If you're satisfied with that OC (You don't want to OC higher) then your current cooler is fine.
If you want to OC more then you should probably consider a new one.