| Author |
|
Dr.Fiero
Admin Group
North Delta
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1286
|
| Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:34am | IP Logged
|
|
|
Was having some 'issues' with the ol' E6600 PC the last few days (it's been RATHER hot in here, with a room temp of 30-32C!) so I blamed the CPU temp of 59-61C on that (yes, I have a decent active cooler on it!).
Thinking that it seemed a little toasty though, I looked up the max temp for the E6600. Intel sez: Max temp - 62C! Eek!
Last night it actually locked up on me too! Not good.
Pulled it apart, alco-wiped the heatsink and CPU down. Slapped on a thin layer of genuine Arctic Silver 5. So far (with a much cooler room temp) I'm running 44-46C. Amazing what 5 min's of work can do! :)
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Dr.Fiero
Admin Group
North Delta
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1286
|
| Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:50am | IP Logged
|
|
|
Addendum: Ran a CPU torture tester program.
Room temp 26C (yes, at ~9am!).
After 6 min's (it had leveled off after 4) it went up to 59-60C.
Killed the program, and within 30 seconds it was down to 50c, after another 5 min's, it's cruising at 48C (with only the O/S load).
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Dr.Fiero
Admin Group
North Delta
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1286
|
| Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:56am | IP Logged
|
|
|
Ha ha... I love replying to myself... :)
Looks like although yeah, it's toasty.... It's not AS HOT as I thought.
Seems there's 3 temp sensors, and I was looking at the hot one. Not the core ones.
Green line is the "CPU".
Red & grey are core 0 & core 1.
So - toasty, but not within 1C of critical as I was thinking it was.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Bassman
Moderator Group
Sir Brian
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1357
|
| Posted: 27 July 2010 at 11:01am | IP Logged
|
|
|
I deleted the apps I had and I used to watch all my spec way too much especially in game mode which is like race mode:)..everything gets real hot fast!:)
__________________
Brian (Bassman)
86 GT Fastback
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Capt Fiero
Admin Group
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2969
|
| Posted: 28 July 2010 at 2:41pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Yep Artic Silver is great stuff. Are you running the stock cooler? If so pony up the 30-40 bucks for a good copper heat sink. The one I have runs a 120mm fan. Yes the CPU fan is a 120m fan. Works awesome. Don't get much over 30C even while doing video encoding.
__________________
Capt Fiero
88 Fiero GT 5spd V6
Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Dr.Fiero
Admin Group
North Delta
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1286
|
| Posted: 28 July 2010 at 2:58pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Well - if the room air temp is 30C - I'll be hard pressed to get <= it!
(you know - that whole abiding by the laws of physics and all!)
If I had water cooling or something though, then yeah - I could drop below ambient.
(oh, and no - I'm not going to drag a hose across the room to suck air in from outside!)
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Bassman
Moderator Group
Sir Brian
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1357
|
| Posted: 28 July 2010 at 3:04pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
ATE SuperBlue Fluid maybe?...lol...Pony up and get fans, love my rig, I also take the side cover off to let internals breathe:)
__________________
Brian (Bassman)
86 GT Fastback
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Capt Fiero
Admin Group
Joined: 12 February 2007
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2969
|
| Posted: 28 July 2010 at 3:04pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Na just get creative,
You remember this shot, air cooling can be cooool.
Although I ran my air duct from outside, I am sure you get get a small A/C system, one of those stand alone units, duct a small amount of the air to the PC and have the rest blowing on you while you were at the desk to keep yourself cool at the same time.
__________________
Capt Fiero
88 Fiero GT 5spd V6
Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Romeo
Senior Post God
Joined: 16 November 2008
Location: Canada
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1380
|
| Posted: 28 July 2010 at 5:19pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
And with all that extra cooling capacity, your computer will run STARCRAFT II!!! How cool is that? 
__________________
-There's no 'I' in team.
-There's no 'u' either, so if I'm not on the team, and you're not on the team, NO ONE'S ON THE TEAM.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Active Topics 
Memberlist 
Search 
Help
Register 
Login
West Coast Fieros Forum : Got something you want to talk about.
Topic: Coooool (for the moment)
