6600 on fire. Help.

[stillkicking]

I have a new build with a 6600. P180B, GigabyteP-DS3, and Corsair 6400. Stock fan. No overclocking I was using SpeedFan to check my temps and thought things were great. 25-34. And then I read that neither it nor the MB BIOS read the actual chip so I downloaded Core Temp. Yikes. It is showing 75 and all I am doing is downloading/uploading some stuff while web surfing. My CPU widget shows 3% usage. Can this temp be right? I don't see anyone this high. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[stillkicking]

Just took the side of the case off. The processor fan wasn't even running. After flicking it a few times with my finger it started up. I have noticed that this fan often does not start up with when everything is powered on. And it will change speeds and sometimes completely stop. Is this normal and something that this processor/MB do?

 

[Rubycon]

Look in your BIOS for options to control fan speed and disable it for the CPU fan.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Get rid of the stock fan. Also get a better cooling heat sink. There's no reason for that to happen to your system. I wouldn't necessarily trust any CPU temperature measurement software, because the sensors on motherboards are notoriously unreliable. But make sure you have a reliable air cooling system.

Intel chips historically have problems with cooling. The Conroes are different, but you still have to pay attention to their cooling. I just tend to think that after-market cooling solutions are better. FrozenCPU.com has a good selection and I've bought from them.

 

[Gannon]

You didn't givve us much to go on... what speed are you running the E6600 at and what voltage?

Next it sounds like you didn't fit the heatsink correctly, you should see temps of 70's if you are under load and overclocked and/or overvolted with a stock heatsink.

If you are not overclocked, it is most likely you didn't seat and snap down heatsink correctly.

The e6600 heatsink strap has to be one of the worst heat sink designs I've ever seen, even worse then the Pentium 4. I wish the guys at intel would pick a good design and stick with it for pete sakes.

Maybe anandtech should do a piece on PC industry design blunders.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: Dadofamunky
Get rid of the stock fan. Also get a better cooling heat sink. There's no reason for that to happen to your system. I wouldn't necessarily trust any CPU temperature measurement software, because the sensors on motherboards are notoriously unreliable. But make sure you have a reliable air cooling system.

Intel chips historically have problems with cooling. The Conroes are different, but you still have to pay attention to their cooling. I just tend to think that after-market cooling solutions are better. FrozenCPU.com has a good selection and I've bought from them.

OK first off, there is no good reason for an aftermarket cooler if you are not overclocking. Secondly, core temp doesn't use a mobo sensor, so it CAN be trusted. Third, saying that intel cpu's historically have cooling problems is completely moot, because we know conroe's do not suffer from this problem. So if you suggest not using any temp software, what, might i ask, should you use?

OP, follow MS Dawn's advice. disabling mobo fan control should solve your problem. this will disable fan control based on temperatures, and let the fan run full speed all the time. Also be sure that your Heatsink is seated properly.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Is it possible he has one of the concave IHSs that some Core 2 chips have on em?

 

[Xvys]

Make sure all four pegs of the heatsink are all the way in. The only way to be sure is to install the heatsink with the m/b out of the case. Then you can visually check to make sure all four mounting pegs are fully seated. They can look tight and pushed in from the top, but they still might not be clicked in all the way. I had C2D temps of 85C when I first installed CoreTemp program and SpeedFan and Everest were showing 65C+. I just ignored these as I thought I had a bum sensor or something. After a month or so I decided to take out the m/b and check the heatsink. It turned out the heatsink pegs was not fully seated. Now my CoreTemp is about 50C at idle and about 58C at sustained full load. Not too bad with the stock heatsink and original Intel paste, (I know I should clean and apply new Artic silver and would probably see a further temp drop.)