First time overclock.. prime 95 temp interpretation needed

[Xarick]

I pushed my e6400 to 2.8ghz by upping the FSB. I left the voltage in auto on my p5q se board. Idle my temps on coretemp are 43 and 44 and on asus prob my cpu temp is 34.

I ran prime 95 for 30 minutes. no errors. coretemp hit 70 on both cores. asus probe hit 63c. I am using stock cooling with artic silver 3.

So are my temps way too high? Should I back down the OC to 2.6ghz until I can get better cooling? What do you guys recommend?

 

[DSF]

What voltage is it running for you?

 

[Xarick]

looks like vcore is at 1.28

 

[Xarick]

Is it weird that 2.6ghz seems faster than 2.8ghz when I OC?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: Xarick
Is it weird that 2.6ghz seems faster than 2.8ghz when I OC?

How so?

Sometimes, when you OC to a certain level, the CPU is just slightly unstable. It's stable enough to run Prime95, but runs a CPU benchmark slower than a lesser overclock.

For example, my Athlon X2 4100+ is OC'd to 3 Ghz. It will run Prime95 @ 3.1 Ghz just fine. But when I run 3dMark 06, the CPU score is something like 10% lower than when I run the chip at 3 Ghz.

 

[Xarick]

okay.. 2.8ghz does run faster, however I am still needing some help on the prime 95 small fft numbers
Speedfan is saying 70 tjunction for the two cores and 63 tcase
that seems high, but I do not know how to bring that down.
Idle is 42-44 depending for tjunction

 

[someone16]

To lower temps the only thing u can do is to get a better cooler or to lower the voltage for the CPU

 

[Xarick]

okay.
I have been testing steady now. Prime95 small tff pushes the tcase as high at 63, but never higher and usually it just pops up to 63. Spends most of its time at 60. The tjunction jumps as high as 70, but bounces between 68 and 70. Now when I do normal gaming the tjunction never exceeds 60 and the tcase stays around 50. Idle tcase is 34 and tjunction is 42-44. So overall I think I am just fine to run this OC. Am I right?