Q6600 G0 - are these temps high considering the environment?

[bluxa]

Background:

I have a q6600 G0, P5K-E mobo, Thermalright ultra 120 extreme HSF with an s-flex fan running at 1600rpm. it is overclocked to 3GHz. Vcore setting in bios is 1.315 (not stable below this). My ambient temps are hot.


Problem:

I have been told that my temps are quite high and that i should take some action to try and lower them, but considering the ambient temps I didnt think so. I thought i would check with you more experienced folks to confirm one way or the other.


Below 2 temp comparisons of my system - with different ambient temps.

Ambient 34c
idle 48c
load running orthos 65c

Ambient 29c
idle 41c
load running orthos 58c

Question?

Are these temps quite high?

 

[genec57]

Over 70c would be a problem with that chip. I wouldn't worry about it at 65c. Keep in mind that the Orthos load temps are far above any thing that you will ask of it in real world gaming or computing.

 

[AkumaX]

what are you using to measure/display temp?

 

[Thor86]

What psu are you using? That vcore seems pretty high for only a 3Ghz overclock.

 

[bluxa]

using coretemp and rm clock to measure temps.

psu is Neo 430, comes with Antec P150 case.

 

[cytoSiN]

VCore does seem unnecessarily high. I'm no expert, but I'm running the same OC on the same chip (333x9) and my temps are similar with the same HSF, and I only need max of 1.2 VCore in BIOS (CPU-Z obviously reports lower). I'm using an Abit IP35 Dark Raider and a Corsair 620HX PSU, which might account for the difference?

 

[bluxa]

Hi guys,

When I first tried the overclock I started with a voltage of of about 1.25, because I'd read that many people were overclocking to 3GHz at this voltage or less. I cant remember exactly what happened but i have a feeling the system didnt post at this voltage. The system posted at higher voltages but i would get errors in Orthos after about 12-20 minutes. At voltage 1.315 was where it started to run stably without errors. Even with the high ambient temps the system temp still seemed reasonable so I never tried experimenting with the voltage again.

In light of what you guys have said though, I think now though I will go back and re-experiment with the voltages and see if I can get it lower. I'll report back later...fingers crossed.

I do also have another voltage question though. In Asus probe I get the following:

Voltage box --- actual voltage
v.core --- 1.29v
+3.3 --- 3.26v
+5 --- 4.99v
+12 --- 12.15v

What has always seemed odd to me is that the +12 voltage has always been over 12v whereas all the voltages are under the voltage box amount i.e +3.3 is under 3.3., +5 is under 5. is this normal/ok? The system itself runs fine, its just something i always wondered about.

 

[imported_rod]

If the voltages are within 5%, they're fine. The stability of the voltage is more important than the exact voltage.

 

[bluxa]

thanks for that rod.

I managed to get 3GHz stable at 1.30v. Anything below that gives the following error in orthos: FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4

1.30v is slightly better though. not sure why I cant do it on a lower voltage though. anyone any ideas?

Also back to my original question - should my temps be considered pretty high?

current ambient is 28c and cpu seems to have settled 55/56c under load

 

[The-Noid]

Seems temperatures are more than ok. I would not worry about it.