Gigabyte P35 DQ6 - Bad temps or bad cooler?

[LifeStealer]

I just finished putting together my dq6 build with parts I've had lying around for a while but the temps seem to be a little high. To start with I used some thermal grease from BB because I couldn't find my AS5 but I have since changed that out and used AS5. Temps dropped by a couple degrees but core temps still hover around 38c idle with 72-75f ambient. I'm using a Zalman 9500 and while I realise this isn't the greatest cooler around I have used it on a previous build with the same chip (6400) and it kept temps around 32c load.

So is it just a bad read? Or a cry for a better cooler? I've heard some of these show a little hotter than they actually are. Running F5 bios though.

Thanks,

 

[Nickel020]

38C is perfectly fine. Different boards read out temperatures a little differently, and a higher ambient temperature will result in a higher CPU temperature. So unless you know that you ambient temeprature is the same as when you got the 32C reading, you can't really compare the two values.

 

[gOJDO]

Depends of many factors: ambient temperature, case cooling, CPU cooling, thermal diode positioning, BIOS, etc.

My E6420 @3.5GHz(7x500) 1.35v on my P35-DS4 at idle(EIST off, C1E off) shows 31'C, while the chipset is 28'C. I have a large case and good in-case cooling (3x12cm), the CPU cooler is Asus Silent SQUARE and the ambient temperature in the room is 23'C.
So, according to my rig the temperature you have at idle is very high.

 

[LifeStealer]

It was the same ambient...