e6600 overheating

[pushVTEC]

Well just recently my stock speed e6600 and stock HSF have been overheating. I ran TAT at 100% on both chips and got a system alarm after the chip hit 70C. Thinking the HSF came unseated I removed the old thermal paste and put on new. Still the same thing. Does anyone know what the stock fan should get up to rpm wise? I've heard 3k, mine only goes up to 1700 rpm. Anyone know how to override the fan speed? I tried with easytune to no avail.

 

[Uninvited Guest]

The guide for overclocking mentions this about TAT.

I'll only mention one other by name with the advice that you do NOT use it: TAT (thermal analysis tool). It's made by Intel and I don't care what anyone else out there thinks: it was NOT designed to read the coretemps of a C2D chip. It was written for Pentium M chips. Yes, it will display temps, and yes, sometimes they match up with the values Coretemp/Speedfan display, but I have found that TAT often reports temps higher than the real values. How do I know this? Read this thread and pay attention to uncleweb's instructions to use crystalcpuid to directly read your DTS (digital temperature sensor) and calculate your core temp yourself if you don't believe me.

So perhaps try CoreTemp or SpeedFan, as mentoned in his guide, sticky at the top of this forum.

 

[myocardia]

Clean all of the fans in your system, and blow all of the dust out of your heatsink. BTW, TAT is pretty worthless, unless you're just trying to see how hot you can get your CPU. No other software will get your CPU anywhere near as hot as Prime95/Orthos will, and TAT will get your cores much, much hotter than they will.