Is my 3.0e (Prescott) too hot?!?

[flippe]

Hi, I got a 3.0e Prescott clocked to 3.6 ghz with a 1.55 vcore. With Intel stock HSF and some AS5 i get 44c idle and 57c/58c max load. Theses temps seem a little bit high or is that just becuase prescott just runs hotter?

 

[ScottFern]

Those temperatures are perfectly normal for a prescott air-cooled.

 

[Duvie]

Seems better then avearage actually...using a stock hsf with a 20% oc and hitting 3.6ghz....Very nice!!!

The prescott should be safe well into the 60's.....

Wait until summer to see possibly the true test....

That actual swing from idle to load is very nice and is almost better then some of the high end coolers...What are you loading it with???

 

[flippe]

Im loading it with: Word 03', Media Player, Edonkey2000, outlook express, some internet explorr, AIM, cpuz (not much of cpu hog at all), and memtest (which gives 0 errors =) ). Also i got 2 exhaust fans+2 intakes+1 fan blowing almost directcly on the cpu and ram (which I cutsom built into the plexi glass of my case door.) Along with some good to moderate airflow (I got a mid-tower/server case), which I hope to improve on little bit soon by ordring some uv rounded cable for my floppy and ide drives =).

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: flippe
Im loading it with: Word 03', Media Player, Edonkey2000, outlook express, some internet explorr, AIM, cpuz (not much of cpu hog at all), and memtest (which gives 0 errors =) ). Also i got 2 exhaust fans+2 intakes+1 fan blowing almost directcly on the cpu and ram (which I cutsom built into the plexi glass of my case door.) Along with some good to moderate airflow (I got a mid-tower/server case), which I hope to improve on little bit soon by ordring some uv rounded cable for my floppy and ide drives =).

Try running prime95 2instances to take advantage of HT and use Large FFT and i bet it clibs in the mid 60's....May not be typical of your uses, but that is a real LOAD...

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, those temps are definatly not high for a prescott they are quite good. I am at 68c right now, running at 3.75ghz with a thermalright xp-120, and prime95 running along with an MMORPG thats using the other 50% of the CPU. Not sure exactly how accurate that is as I have heard that Abit motherboards tend to read a bit on the high end, but so far 14hours of prime95 stable and still going strong.

 

[Geomagick]

That's very good for Prescott. I had my old 2.8E up to 93C stable once so plenty of room left.

 

[flippe]

well thats good to kno I still got a little o/c room left so I should be able to make it up to 3.7 or if I'm lucky, 3.8 stable. But I wish Intel would supply a little kind of note saying that the temperature region has changed for the new prescott cores as well as the new high and low temps it can take. But I wonder if I could get the temps any lower by buying one of those new Thermaltake PIPe101 heatsinks with heatpipe tech.

 

[LTC8K6]

That's very good for Prescott. I had my old 2.8E up to 93C stable once so plenty of room left.

Your temp readings were wrong. Your chip would have been throttling like a mofo.

 

[jpetermann]

Originally posted by: George Powell
That's very good for Prescott. I had my old 2.8E up to 93C stable once so plenty of room left.

Holy smoke Batman!

 

[flippe]

Well I've been running Prime95 for like 4 hours now with its biggest torture test (the first test is 4000 LL iterations using 1024k FFT Length)(whatever that means...) and I hit 60 C and when I run UT2004 in the background I hit 62/63 which still sounds pretty good =).

 

[Elvis2]

1.55 vcore? isn't that a bit much for a prescott? i just replaced my 2.8C with a 3.2E and maybe i'm not too familiar with their voltage limits yet. i thot i read somewhere that it's not a good idea to go over 1.40 with a prescott

 

[Sc4freak]

uhh.. 1.4v is the stock voltage for the older Prescotts, the newer ones (D0 and up) are stock 1.375v. Its best not to go over 1.65v and to stay under 70c.

 

[Wisey]

My Northwood 2.6 Ghz is OCed to 3.15Ghz and temperature is 33 to 35C idle and 48 to 50C at full load. Is this within range?

I just re-applied Arctic silver 5 two days ago and maybe thermal still not stabilze yet...

 

[Zebo]

Who cares? Unless you are idleing on throttle watch because of it. Or failing out of P95 because of it/

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: pastorjay

Originally posted by: George Powell
That's very good for Prescott. I had my old 2.8E up to 93C stable once so plenty of room left.

Holy smoke Batman!

Each motherboard is different.. even same mobos read different.

My water cooled temps were 58C!!! on abit NF7... Oh me, oh my. I was so sad. My AthlonXP CPU's temperature was being reported in the high 50's at 2.7GHz. I was really envious of people who's motherboards report low 30's for their CPU's running at 2.2GHz.

I switched Bios's once and went to ~45C, I switched mobos and went to ~35.

It's all relative.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

My 3.0 gig Prescott on Abit IS7 is giving me 69 deg.C on full load. Idle should be around 59 deg.C.

Beat that.

 

[Elvis2]

i just kicked my 3.2E up to 4.0 ghz. by going from stock voltage up to 1.42v. i can live with that. hope it can too...

 

[flippe]

I could prolly go to around 3.8 or 3.9 stable but evn if I put my voltage to 1.62 and reset my ram timings it just wont go. It's prolly my ram bottlenecking my cpu cuz I got dual channel pc-3200, but all is fine at 3.6, running 192 mghz per sticvk =).