Hi all,
Pretty much from day one when I got my new e6850 on my eVGA 680i SLI I oc'ed it to 3600Mhz and running 1.41V in bios which would actually show around 1.38 or so most often in CPUz. My temps using my tunic Tower and using the newest Coretemp which takes into consideration the new G0 type C2D CPU's is around 36c Idle and it will rise to over 50-54c in Orthos for hours. When playing games for extended periods of time I usually float around 45c
Now my point, I realized that honestly the games I use and the work I do, 3600mhz is just getting wasted. I scaled down to its stock speed of 3GHz and I noted no difference in the games I play. Thus I left the speed at 3Ghz but started dropping the voltages as LOW as I could. I was able to get the e6850 stable at 1.29 in the Bios which actually shows a bit lower on CPUz when running. I have all the power savings features enabled.
Now... the interesting thing and hence my post is that after all that... running it at its stock speed and dropping my voltages way down... my temps are actually NOT that different. In fact I am still idling at around 34c and my temps go a wee past 50c when using Orthos. While playing the games I do again i see 42-45c. Sooooo what gives??
The funny thing is that on my quadcore or my original e6600 and even my trusty AMD x2-4800 the temps I get are soooo linear with adjusting the voltages down or up. I can vividly see a substantial difference in temps dropping as I lower voltage and CPU speed. However for this CPU lately I honestly don?t see much of a difference leading me to believe that what the heck? keep it at the highest OC possible. Any ideas? What am I missing or doing wrong>?
Pretty much from day one when I got my new e6850 on my eVGA 680i SLI I oc'ed it to 3600Mhz and running 1.41V in bios which would actually show around 1.38 or so most often in CPUz. My temps using my tunic Tower and using the newest Coretemp which takes into consideration the new G0 type C2D CPU's is around 36c Idle and it will rise to over 50-54c in Orthos for hours. When playing games for extended periods of time I usually float around 45c
Now my point, I realized that honestly the games I use and the work I do, 3600mhz is just getting wasted. I scaled down to its stock speed of 3GHz and I noted no difference in the games I play. Thus I left the speed at 3Ghz but started dropping the voltages as LOW as I could. I was able to get the e6850 stable at 1.29 in the Bios which actually shows a bit lower on CPUz when running. I have all the power savings features enabled.
Now... the interesting thing and hence my post is that after all that... running it at its stock speed and dropping my voltages way down... my temps are actually NOT that different. In fact I am still idling at around 34c and my temps go a wee past 50c when using Orthos. While playing the games I do again i see 42-45c. Sooooo what gives??
The funny thing is that on my quadcore or my original e6600 and even my trusty AMD x2-4800 the temps I get are soooo linear with adjusting the voltages down or up. I can vividly see a substantial difference in temps dropping as I lower voltage and CPU speed. However for this CPU lately I honestly don?t see much of a difference leading me to believe that what the heck? keep it at the highest OC possible. Any ideas? What am I missing or doing wrong>?
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