That depends.

What are you current temps?

[not sure if you have posted them elsewhere, didn't look.]

I personally idle @ 29c, and 39c under load on a hot day. On a cool day, idle is same & load is 35c.

 

could be your chip, not mounted properly, bad tim contact, low caseflow, just all around warm room, warped base just to name a few

 

at 1.4875v , the most i get is 60c

 

That's consistent with what I had with that cooler.....

 

yea that cooler isnt TO GOOD. I had to sell mine and get a tuniq.

 

Overclocked with 1.4v I get about 35C idle and 55C under Orthos load.

Make sure Q-Fan isn't turned on as the fan will never run at 100% when required. Turning it off makes a huge difference.

 

Yeah, I'm at stock speeds & stock voltage, and no problems, that's w/ Q-Fan on.

It's about 82 F in my room right now, too

 

Also, do not use Speedfan for your temps.

It is horribly inaccurate.

Please download CoreTemp from here http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/CoreTemp.zip

Then post your temps with CoreTemp and turn off Q-Fan. I will warn you, it will be loud

 

These are mine with a q6600 at 3.0ghz vcore 1.38

 

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I tend to use speedfan as it's accurate for me, at least?
Idk if it's my mobo or what, but it's always spot on.

Same with Intel TAT.

 

I was running 30-35C idle on my 630i but after upgrading to a 780i and a second 8800gt, I started getting 43-47C idle

. Everything is running really hot, especially my ocz powerstream 520w. To find out what was wrong, I took out my second 8800gt. Temps went down to 38-41C. I'm getting a thermaltake toughpower 750w hoping it will bring those temps down. Good luck to me

. Btw I actually reached 70-75C when running prime95 for about 4-5 hours

. At least I had no errors so my overclock is running stable. No fire or smoke...yet.

Anyway...who wants some mini pizza bagels fresh off my processor

.

 

i get 25oC idle. loads never been over 35oC on my q6600. my cpu's cooler than my case, probly cos of the suction cuased by the two extractor fans on the back of my case going at 5000rpm. no fan controler as of yet, but big headache

 

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Originally Posted by stansphat i get 25oC idle. loads never been over 35oC on my q6600. my cpu's cooler than my case, probly cos of the suction cuased by the two extractor fans on the back of my case going at 5000rpm. no fan controler as of yet, but big headache

Try overclocking your quad and you will see your temps go up!

 

no doubt about that. im gona take mine up to 2.8ghz. thats it. cos i know it will start to get hot once i start changing vcore. this cpu cooler isnt advised if your doing 3.2ghz +. it will do everything below fine.

i fitted a northern proper north bridge cooler and it took my cpu down 4oC. so on some boards that helps.

lets face it this coolers better than the stock one

 

I reseated the heatsink and pow Im at 38 C

load

 

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Originally Posted by stansphat i get 25oC idle. loads never been over 35oC on my q6600. my cpu's cooler than my case, probly cos of the suction cuased by the two extractor fans on the back of my case going at 5000rpm. no fan controler as of yet, but big headache

I just put 4 92mm Vantec Tornadoes in my case (including one to replace the stock AF7 fan). My temps went from 33C idle to 23C!!! I can finally start overclocking. BTW - the 23 is with a Sunbeam Rheostat fan controller. It was hitting 20-21 on full blast, but I couldn't take the noise

Which reminds me, I need to change the name of my rig....

 

Payton12345 what is your core doing at 1.3vcore, im running 3GHz at 1.28v and its a b3. Bring those volts down or increase speed man

 

Mid 50s fully loaded running 1.48v @ 3.0GHz

 

Hi guys,
I have AF 7 Pro and it is able to bring my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz (1.46v) without breaking any sweat. However, my question is, under LOAD (1.41v) my temps are 69,69,65,65, why is it that there is a 4C difference between these 2 cores??? Is it too much?? Is something wrong with my heatsink??

 

speedfan is fine for me ....it just varys fom rig to rig ....

 

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Hi guys, I have AF 7 Pro and it is able to bring my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz (1.46v) without breaking any sweat. However, my question is, under LOAD (1.41v) my temps are 69,69,65,65, why is it that there is a 4C difference between these 2 cores??? Is it too much?? Is something wrong with my heatsink??

Nothing is wrong with your heatsink, but you can make it have more contact with the cpu by lapping it. Usually the surface of the factory lapped heatsinks are rough so each cpu core might have slightly different temps and also it might be your processes, it could be using more of the power of your other cores, even though the cores are suppose to work in unison. Not only that, you might of applied the thermal paste incorrectly and one side could have had more paste than the other causing the temp difference.

 

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Originally Posted by Demvang Mid 50s fully loaded running 1.48v @ 3.0GHz

This makes me VERY happy.

I'm planning on getting one since they're under $20 but was wondering if it could handle things. At 3Ghz I'm .04v less than what you are (although I probably should be up where you are to ensure complete stability) and push much higher temps with my Tempest so it's nice to know that this cooler will be a good investment.

 

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Originally Posted by CrackClocker Nothing is wrong with your heatsink, but you can make it have more contact with the cpu by lapping it. Usually the surface of the factory lapped heatsinks are rough so each cpu core might have slightly different temps and also it might be your processes, it could be using more of the power of your other cores, even though the cores are suppose to work in unison. Not only that, you might of applied the thermal paste incorrectly and one side could have had more paste than the other causing the temp difference.

That is what I thought too.. Uneven amount of AS 5 for my CPU. Thx