C2D E6600 OC temp advice

[Scavar]

Ok so I have my E6600 OC'd to 3.4GHz at 1.45V and I get 54C or so idle, and anywhere between 60C to 74C stock. Now before I turned up the Voltage, I was at like 36C idle, 42C load. Should turning the voltage up from stock really make it go up that high? Should I perhaps try and reseat my Heatsink and reapply my AS5? Could another voltage be affecting it?

I have an EVGA 680i, E6600, AC FreezerPro 7.

I also thought maybe I should put some AS5 on the North/South Bridge, I just have to figure out how to take off the heatsinks for it.

I want to say that my settings in bios are
CPU Core: 1.45V
CPU FSB 1.5V
nForce SPP 1.50V
x9 on the CPU, FSB at 1512 I believe. Now the system does run stable, other then some unrelated memory problems(I ordered new memory as my memory seems to be, well not working so well) I have gotten some Page File BSODs and Memory Management BSODs, not to mention memtest says my memory is no good. I suppose thats more info then you need for my original question.

Any advice on the temps?

PS my Room is usually about 64F and idle my GPU 54C, HDDs in the mid 30C, ambient 40C or so, North/South bridge near 50C.

[JUDAS3]

oh thats warm, check the max temp on the intel website, that should tell you.

if you reduce the voltage does it become unstable, if not, can you reduce it.

your system specs say you have a stock cooler, you may want to change that.

[Scavar]

Oh I guess I need to edit my specs again, I always forget.

Ill try lowering the volt, and see what happens, Ill post back.



EDIT:Well I set everything back to stock. TAT reports at stock 40c-44c Idle 53c-57c load.
PC Wizard reports the temps a little lower, by about 2c-3c.
Nvidiamonitor about the same as PC Wizard. Perhaps by another degree or so.

[Scavar]

BIOS reports it as 39c/40c

[Sasqui]

Interestingly, I found no difference in the overclock limit with my E6600 using Stock VCore, or going about as high as you did. The only difference was temps and 30+/- watts (I have a watt meter plugged into my 'puter.) Runs stable to about 3.5 Ghz no matter what the voltage.

You also get the benefit of Vcore load adjusting (depending on your mobo), if you set the voltage to Auto.

[Scavar]

I just automatically set the Vcore up from the stock, so it is entirely possible that I don't need as much as I had it....ill try setting it to 1.3 or so I think, and see what happens.

[Scavar]

Ok, well I have cpu core 1.3v fsb 1.3v and spp at 1.4v

Back at 3.4GHz, and much more acceptable tempertures. 38c-42c idle 56c-60c load. Seems to be perfectly stable.

Thanks Judas and Sasqui for the volt comments, I never would have known.

[Sasqui]

I just automatically set the Vcore up from the stock, so it is entirely possible that I don't need as much as I had it...

I found myself doing the exact same thing, and found out later I didn't need to jack it up at all :)

Strangely, it goes against every bit of overclocking advice and principle which really is that with more voltage you should get more speed. I've only found it to be marginally true.

[JUDAS3]

if you read most of the oc advice, it says only to up the voltage on the cpu if you have stability issues.

Nice one m8 - glad you found the answer,