hey guys, i'm curious, CoreTemp reports my Q6600 G0 temp around 45C at idle @ stock speed, is this normal? ambient temp is 30C.

even at load the temps just increase to about 47C, sorry i'm kinda a noob in this.

i want to OC my proc to at least 3.6 soon, so wanna makesure 1st.

hmm, after testing with prime my full load goes up to 56C only at stock speed.

and yes, using S1283 with MX-2

hmm i tried to OC my Q6600 to 3.6GHz but i cant get it to be stable for more than 5 minutes stress testing using prime. Raised the vcore till 1.475 (in bios). The full load temp almost 70C.

its stable at 3.2GHz though

oh, its my first time OC'ing, so i left the nb and sb voltage at auto.

any hints on how much i should add?

i got my proc to be stable for Prime95 @ 3.6GHz on 1.48V, in idle its 52C and full load reaches 75C...thats crazy, so i reduced the vcore to 1.45V and its stable for normal use with idle at 48C, no crashes or BSOD yet so far. SuperPI, Everest and 3DMark benchmarking ran smoothly.

will try to lower down the voltage to <1.4V and test for basic system stability soon.

ambient temperature is 35C (very hot )

ah, i never said i tried up to 1.55, thats someone else, the max i went was 1.48V, it was stable for prime95 at that voltage. anything below is not.

and yes i did change the nb/sb volt.

my current idle temp is <50C @ 1.45V, but unstable for prime, its stable for normal use, no such crashes or BSOD, gaming, superpi, everest all ran smoothly, no prob.