Coooool (for the moment)
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Topic: Coooool (for the moment)
Posted By: Dr.Fiero
Subject: Coooool (for the moment)
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:34am
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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! :) |
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Posted By: Dr.Fiero
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:50am
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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). |
Posted By: Dr.Fiero
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:56am
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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. |
Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 11:01am
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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 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 2:41pm
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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. |
Posted By: Dr.Fiero
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 2:58pm
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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!) |
Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 3:04pm
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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 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 3:04pm
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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. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 5:19pm
And with all that extra cooling capacity, your computer will run STARCRAFT II!!! How cool is that?  ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |