Strange Q6600 Temps

[RavenGuard]

I had my Q6600 overclocked to 3.2ghz. I often idled in the high 40's and load mid 50's. I decided I really don't need 3.2ghz out of this thing, and the stock speed of 2.4 would be fine. I run it with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 so it has decent cooling.

It's at 1.1250 volts, down from something like 1.35 volts, and I'm still idling around the same temps as I did with the OC.

CPUZ is giving me 1.056v currently, at idle, and 1.04v with load. Strange...

Speedfan is giving me 41, 37, 35, 40 for load temps, which seems more realistic considering the cooling solution and the voltage/clockrate. Is Core Temp simply wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[coreyb]

I may be wrong, but I believe idle temperatures won't change a lot. It's the load temps that will.

Why don't you drop a nice TRUE on there and keep it at 3.2?

 

[RavenGuard]

Originally posted by: coreyb
I may be wrong, but I believe idle temperatures won't change a lot. It's the load temps that will.

Why don't you drop a nice TRUE on there and keep it at 3.2?

Because it creates heat and uses power I don't need.

 

[RavenGuard]

No ideas?

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Originally posted by: RavenGuard

Because it creates heat and uses power I don't need.

props to you! that's a great mind-frame to have

I would agree that the idle temps might not change much. Do you have speedfan on auto fan control? Is your motherboard enabling any settings which auto control the fan? You might just have a quiet fan to begin with, so a reduction in the speed due to less heat being put out may just be something you can't notice, and it is staying at the same temps because of some fan regulation which is allowing it to throttle.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: RavenGuard
Because it creates heat and uses power I don't need.

You need to get into distributed computing (there's a dedicated forum here on AT). Running DC, you'll want as much power and speed as you can get.