Q6600 Temperatures?

[garyjpaterson]

Got a Q6600 @3.0GHz with a Hyper 212 evo cooler for my second PC.

Here's a screenshot of the temps in HWMonitor and Core Temp, after about half an hour of P95.

 

 

Which one is right?

 

HWMonitor is saying it idles at around 45-50 degrees, and tops out at 70 after 30 mins of Prime95, Small FFTs.

Core Temp says it idles from 22-27, and 50 degrees under load.

 

 

 

[DoubleY]

Just to be safe, trust the higher number.

[FireFox]

No idea, never had an issue with HWMonitor

[garyjpaterson]

Yeah, ive been using HWMonitor for ages, and temps did seem high for 3.0GHz and with a Hyper 212, so i never OCd any further. Thats why i checked Core Temp, to see if it was also reading high temps, but since its not i dont know which to beleive.

 

After a bit of googling, seems like HWMonitor reads a lot higher on similar CPUs quite a lot.

[garyjpaterson]

Just realised that TMPIN2 on HWMonitor shows very similar temps to Core Temp, leading me to believe that is the CPU temperature.

[LogicalDrm]

Seems like bug in Coretemp. My stock Q6600 was around 40C idle, 65C under load with NH-U9B.

[garyjpaterson]

Not sure, Real temp has temperatures 5 degrees higher than Core Temp, so with an offset they read the same.

[Covn]

Seems like bug in Coretemp. My stock Q6600 was around 40C idle, 65C under load with NH-U9B.

 

I'm with him, my old X3350 (the Xeon equivalent to the Q9450) ran similar temps around 1.25v, maybe a few degrees higher since I was using a Big Typhoon.

[applebook]

In my experience, Core Temp is not to be trusted. 

[Covn]

In my experience, Core Temp is not to be trusted. 

 

Also my sentiment.

[deathjester]

HW monitor is prob right. Small TFT's are a pointless test, other then if you have no time and the chip runs really cool and you are on water or something and it would be crazy to run on newer chips anyways.

 

You won't even see prime blend temps at a real load (and blend catches gaming instability better and ram instability hella quick). Asus real bench is free. Select h.264, let it run. That is your real world max temp (rendering). You are not getting hotter then a 100 percent render.

 

70C on small TFT is fine. Don't run small tft any more unless you have watercooling or a duo core and don't even bother with it on Haswell at all.

 

Test with prime blend if you are gonna use prime for a long time, throw in some renders/stress tests on real bench and AIDA 64. You probably can go to 3.6 or something on a q6600 depending on which stepping it was and how good your ram will OC. Q's were hit and miss with the extra cores. E's just went to 4ghz on stock voltage sometimes. You might get to 4ghz you might get stuck at 3.4? Who knows. Probably gonna need a .1-2 to MCH, northbridge and memory when you go higher. Just make sure your Northbridge has a decent heatsink on it. Some boards didn't.