Q6600 temperature problem

[yshkobe]

Guys, I'm in need of some help here. My Q6600 on stock cooling on EP35C-DS3R achieve around 48'C at idle at 65'C at load under Prime95 at stock speed. I'm thinking that it's too hot.... Is it? How can I improve the situatioN? I'm still waiting for my cpu cooler to arrive maybe in a week time.... I dun even dare to OC seeing such condition.... Is there any possiblity that I'm not mounting the stock fan correctly? I had some difficulties mounting the stock fan and I remount it after clipping it to the place.... I remove the whole stock fan and put it back... Will this be a problem? Btw I'm using Lian-Li PC007 and i had those temperatures with my side panel opened and a fan blowing my cpu in a non-aircon room.

 

[aigomorla]

65C is not hot expecially with stock cooler.

Quadcores are normally just hot.

Replace heat sink may yeild greater results. For now take the side panel off and see how your temperatures stablize.


Also, this question really belongs in my section. The cases and cooling section. :T

 

[BoboKatt]

Yah I know this would belong in the cases cooling, but if you have a chance... can you push down (gently) on the HS/Fan while it's running... especially something like prime, to see if your temps go down? That does indeed seem high even for stock cooling. This way at least you can easily see if there is a mounting issue.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: BoboKatt
Yah I know this would belong in the cases cooling, but if you have a chance... can you push down (gently) on the HS/Fan while it's running... especially something like prime, to see if your temps go down? That does indeed seem high even for stock cooling. This way at least you can easily see if there is a mounting issue.

this is actually quite dangerous. I dont recomend it at all. If you push down hard on mistake, or something, theres a ton of things that can happen. Generally you dont want to move your machine unless its a laptop while on.