How fast is 'safe' to overclock an E6600 on the standard intel fan?

setter · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:19

Ewanb75 said:
Running my e6600 under an AC7 load usually about 50's, stock volts @ 3150

nice clock, couldnt get mine to run much higher than 3.0ghz on stock voltage Eventually ended up running it at 3.6ghz 1.525 vcore in bios (1.488 iirc in windows) for 6 months, 14 hours orthos stable. Temps never went above 60'c at load. Sold it a few months ago when i bought the q6600. was a great cpu, wouldnt mind picking one up again for a second rig when i get my 680i mobo back from rma.

CliffyBiro · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:24

Highest I reached for my everyday tasks on stock was 3.2GHz but it would crash under Prime.

z0mbi3 · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:24

I wouldn't worry about the temps so much as the noise from the stock cooler going at full pelt

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Anything up to 70 degrees should be fine. The problem is if you get dust build up and the temps increase without you realising then you want to have plenty of breathing room before hitting 80-85 degrees.

Whilst we're at it what temperature are you reading? The core temp or tcase one?

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uk.james.baker said:
The temps are at 63 and 63 degrees now. I should get that cooler soon.

You don't want to be worrying about the individual core temps, just the tcase temp as that's what intels death temperature is measured against. You'll probably find your tcase temp is around the 45 degrees mark in which case you've got around another 40 degrees to be playing with.

Only bother upgrading the stock cooler if the noise is annoying you.

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:33

z0mbi3 said:
I wouldn't worry about the temps so much as the noise from the stock cooler going at full pelt .

Anything up to 70 degrees should be fine. The problem is if you get dust build up and the temps increase without you realising then you want to have plenty of breathing room before hitting 80-85 degrees.

Whilst we're at it what temperature are you reading? The core temp or tcase one?

edit:

You don't want to be worrying about the individual core temps, just the tcase temp as that's what intels death temperature is measured against. You'll probably find your tcase temp is around the 45 degrees mark in which case you've got around another 40 degrees to be playing with.

Only bother upgrading the stock cooler if the noise is annoying you.

How do I find this tcase temp?

z0mbi3 · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:34

uk.james.baker said:
How do I find this tcase temp?

I'm not at home at the moment so I can't check but if coretemp won't tell you I'm 99% sure speedfan will.

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It's the cpu meassure in speedfan.

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:41

It's on 56 under load. Not bad I guess.

z0mbi3 · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:42

uk.james.baker said:
It's on 56 under load. Not bad I guess.

Not bad at all, you're at least 24 degrees away from death

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:42

For some reason the system temp is -65 :confused:

z0mbi3 · 17 Jul 2008 at 15:45

uk.james.baker said:
For some reason the system temp is -65

Yeah not sure about that one. All you have to remember is that the tcase temp is reading from the same sensor that you see in the bios when you check your cpu health.

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:11

Probably best that I get a new cooler though just to be safe. Even though it isn't that loud.

Now, the northbridge fan, that's too loud

Foxor` · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:16

uk.james.baker said:
Probably best that I get a new cooler though just to be safe. Even though it isn't that loud.

Now, the northbridge fan, that's too loud

freezer pro is 12quid atm grab one of those

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:17

Foxor` said:
freezer pro is 12quid atm grab one of those

Yup that's what I'm after I think.

Are there northbridge fans that are quieter?

Foxor` · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:24

uk.james.baker said:
Yup that's what I'm after I think.

Are there northbridge fans that are quieter?

I'm not sure if you want to replace the whole cooler or just the fan? but if your after replacing the whole cooler
click me
but its a bit expensive(compared to the cpu cooler), you could always just replace the fan tho? OCUK Have loads of 40mm - 70mm fans
Click me

uk.james.baker · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:28

Foxor` said:
I'm not sure if you want to replace the whole cooler or just the fan? but if your after replacing the whole cooler
click me
but its a bit expensive(compared to the cpu cooler), you could always just replace the fan tho? OCUK Have loads of 40mm - 70mm fans
Click me

No fan! Now that is nice.

manic111 · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:30

I aim to keep my CPU under 67C generally...

Actually I really ought to clean the fan soon!

Foxor` · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:34

uk.james.baker said:
No fan! Now that is nice.

well you wont go far wrong with the AC Freezer7 and the noctua northboard cooler.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:53

Yup slap an ACF7 pro on there with some arctic silver 5, and clock the **** out of it... and if you take the time to lap the HSF and CPU IHS properly you can get some impressive cooling from the ACF7 pro (in my experiences the E6600 have had a concave surface and the ACF7 finish was far from ideal).