I said I'd get back today . . . . had to clean up the room so the fam-dam-ily can play a game on my quad-monster. In process, shut down system, then realized I should check e-mail. No post. reset. No cigar. cold reboot -- no cigar. Clear CMOS -- no cigar. Swapped out the memory into another machine. I blew a RAM module. Had a spare-a-pair, like the hare who lost his spectacles.
Intel's specs on the C2D and C2Q are pretty, well, specific. Overall "CPU" temp is "TCASE" -- what noobs are inclined to monitor. "TJUNCTION" core temperatures are measured from sensors within each core. TCASE is always 9C to 15C lower than the core value average.
So something is weird about your temperatures -- unless I missed something catching up on today's posts here.
For all you ThermalRight-ambitious folks ( I read some posts about someone just getting started with the Ultima 90) -- the only thing on the market right now -- barring some new entry and reviews I've missed -- that trumps the Ultima, is ThermalRight's own Ultra-120-Extreme. Look at the May and August Anandtech comparison reviews. I've pretty much validated their results with my own tests.
The Ultima should be neck-and-neck with the (2nd place) Sunbeam Tuniq, and just behind the Ultra-120-Ex in performance. I've chosen the Ultima for a VISTA-64 build (where I found the spare RAM modules today), because I'm modding a different case and it's narrower.
If you want to be a real hotdog about air-cooling, you may squeeze the temperatures down by as much as 10C -- maybe more -- if you want to try foam-art-board motherboard-ducting. I started a long thread last summer on my own exploits in this regard. If you don't find it first, I'll attempt to hunt it down.
You can also trim about 2 to 3C degrees off TCASE and the core temperatures if you use a 95%-loaded synthetic micronized-diamond-particle TIM. I had to mix my own using JetArt CK-4800 and some diamond abrasive powder I bought, but IC Diamond (see HeatsinkFactory) is better, less expensive, and less trouble. About four applications will cost you $5. There should be enough for a graphics card and a CPU, and it doesn't degrade, like silver-based compounds. Further, you can "re-use" it.
Contrary to myth among the forums here and elsewhere, a positive case-air-pressure can provide better cooling if cool air is ducted through narrow apertures around the hot components and then exhausted immediately from the case. You can find more on cooling at the "Cases and Cooling" forum, and you would also find my "Motherboard Ducting" thread there, unless stuff completely expires after several months.
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