C2D E6600 idling at 44C is that about right

falcon26 · Post by **falcon26** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:07 pm

I have a C2D E6600 not overclocked everything stock and its idling at 44C is that about right? I have a side panel window which I took off and its still about 44C. I'm really thinking about getting a P182, would that lower my temps much?

Thanks

AndeeG · Post by **AndeeG** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:25 pm

falcon26 wrote:I have a C2D E6600 not overclocked everything stock and its idling at 44C is that about right? I have a side panel window which I took off and its still about 44C. I'm really thinking about getting a P182, would that lower my temps much?

Thanks

My e6600 stays at around 40/41 while i'm surfing and listening to music. If I just left it doing nothing, I would guess that it would drop down to about 38 or 39, but I haven't really tested that out. What cooling gear do you have?

falcon26 · Post by **falcon26** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:13 pm

My average room temp is about 72C So I guess my temps are about average than...

jolynsbass · Post by **jolynsbass** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:16 pm

falcon26 wrote:My average room temp is about 72C So I guess my temps are about average than...

Dude, time to get some air conditioning installed! Complain to your landlord or something!

You're doing really well to keep your C2D nearly 30C below ambient...

Techno Pride · Post by **Techno Pride** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:24 pm

falcon26 wrote:My average room temp is about 72C So I guess my temps are about average than...

shouldn't you be dead by now?

Lawrence Lee · Post by **Lawrence Lee** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:14 pm

Must be some extreme cooling measures if your CPU is 30C cooler than your room temperature.

unibomber51 · Post by **unibomber51** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:08 pm

mine is about 45C with a ninja with a YL running at 800rpm
sounds fine to me

Das_Saunamies · Post by **Das_Saunamies** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:50 am

falcon26 wrote:I have a C2D E6600 not overclocked everything stock and its idling at 44C is that about right? I have a side panel window which I took off and its still about 44C.

The fact that opening a giant hole in your side panel didn't lower temperatures just means your airflow is as good as it can be(assuming exhaust is being used), and that cooling efficiency is the best your cooler+fan+paste can do. That's what my logic would dictate anyway.

falcon26 · Post by **falcon26** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:19 am

Yeah I think I'll put the side panel back on. The only thing is, with it on after playing BF2 for about 10 minutes my psu fan kicks on

In my old antec 3700BQE case my fans would never spin up and I pretty much had the same hardware then. I really thinking about getting an antec p182 and selling my coolermaster wave case. Its probably the best looking case I've seen, but airflow sucks big time. And I am a total neat freak, my case is nice and tidy all the wires etc. I've heard that the P182 is a mess for cables and such is this true?

Das_Saunamies · Post by **Das_Saunamies** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:23 am

The P182 features the most possibilities for tidying up your cables, so no mess! Only problem is having the PSU in the bottom, as that presents you with new challenges in getting your cables to where they need to go. Usually the only problem is the main socket on the mobo, which can be placed with top-mounted PSUs in mind.

If your PSU fan kicks in with the panel on and stays off without it, then it's a ceiling ventilation issue. Arrange for a cool intake for the PSU and it should be alright: take off a cover plate from a 5.25" bay and/or duct the PSU intake for example. My SmartPower got all crashy during this summer -- incidentally while playing BF2142 -- and I solved it by removing a 5.25" bay cover. It just needed to breathe a little more air.

Hope you get it solved, but that P182 is not a bad option!

falcon26 · Post by **falcon26** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:37 am

Just got back from the store, got the P182 for $140. Haven't opened it yet though. Is the P182 black or grey, sometimes I see black and sometimes it looks grey to me..

Das_Saunamies · Post by **Das_Saunamies** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:01 pm

http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=09182

"Gun metal black" they call it. Enjoy your new case for five years to come.

Spanki · Post by **Spanki** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:40 pm

falcon26 wrote:Just got back from the store, got the P182 for $140. Haven't opened it yet though. Is the P182 black or grey, sometimes I see black and sometimes it looks grey to me..

The P182 is gun-metal grey. The P180 is black, but most folks who bought them after Feb. sometime got all the 182 mods included (offset mb tray, a few more cut-outs for wire management, grometed holes for water-cooling tubes, external fan switches, etc.).

andaca · Post by **andaca** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:51 pm

1 check the heatsink installation (push the pins again)

2 check the vcore voltage using cpuz or other prog ( sometimes auto vcore puts 2 much)

3 check what e6600 version u have (vcore related)

4 use a dif thermal grease

my e6600 idles at 32c with the retail intel stock cooler

Wibla · Post by **Wibla** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:29 am

My E6600 idles at 33-34 with cpu fan at 1400rpm (intel stock), but the ambient temps are high now, like 25-26C...

silentgear · Post by **silentgear** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:22 am

Wibla,

is that core temperature or just cpu temperature?

RBBOT · Post by **RBBOT** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:40 am

I have a E6600 in a P182 with a passive ninja and Noctua 800rpm case fans. I made a duct to the heat sink from the rear fan and i'm getting 42C core temperatures while idle, and 63C after twenty minutes running orthos, which is hot, but below the suggested warning level of 70C for an orthos test.

Unfortunately I didn't get time to try other improvements to the cooling as an attempt to flash the motherboard BIOS went disasterously wrong and killed it, so the board is now being RMA'd.

lor77 · Post by **lor77** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:44 am

I also have a E6600 in a P180 with a ninja attached with a nexus fan @650rpm and a rear Nexus fan @800rpm.My Temp are cpu-41 and core temp
between 53 to 54,and this is while browsing.
Why there is a such a big difference between core temp and cpu?
The ambient between 25-28C.

jazzforce · Post by **jazzforce** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:17 am

P 180/182 question -

Is there room to run PSu cables behind the tray?

jaldridge6 · Post by **jaldridge6** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:32 pm

I have an e6300 with a ninja and a scythe 800rpm fan, idle is 37. Undervolting could probably knock off 5C but I'm using an intel desktop board.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:37 am

Hello,

I have you all beat: E6420 @ stock w/ SpeedStep, the idle is 19C! Of course, the ambient dropped down to around 50F (10C) overnight...

Thermalright SI-128 w/ GlobalWIn @ 850RPM, btw. [Edit: in a Solo w/ and Asus P5NE-SLi and 2GB Corsair 533 "Value", Fortron Source 300watt "Green", and 320GB SATA Western Digital SE16, and 120GB IDE Samsung, and a Gigabyte 8600GTS passive. The stock Antec fan on low is the loudest item in the system.]

gogos7 · Post by **gogos7** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:22 am

Hi NeilBlanchard,
can you please tell me what motherboard are you using?

lor77 · Post by **lor77** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:48 am

Nice temp there NeilBlanchard

I have one more question.In what case do you keep your E6420?

Moogles · Post by **Moogles** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:50 pm

NeilBlanchard wrote:Hello,

I have you all beat: E6420 @ stock w/ SpeedStep, the idle is 19C! Of course, the ambient dropped down to around 50F (10C) overnight...

Thermalright SI-128 w/ GlobalWIn @ 850RPM, btw.

Inaccurate motherboard reading, imo. What temperatures do you get when using Intel Thermal Analysis Tool?

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:57 pm

Hello,

The system is in a Solo, with the Asus P5NE-SLi motherboard. That temp was for Core 1 in SpeedFan, and it is often the hotter of the two cores. When I had a 20% (AI) overclock (which is 'built-in" to the BIOS) and running two instances of Folding@Home in the same room -- but with an ambient temperature well up into the 80's (F or say 28C), the peak temp was ~64C on the same core -- so I think that the 19C was accurate!

The ambient as ~18C higher and the core was ~12C hotter because of the overclock -- and it is a Load vs Idle temp...so 19+18+12=49C for the approximate idle temp in the (much) hotter room. The delta to the load temp is just 15C, I think?

It was easy to be just 9C above ambient at idle with SpeedStep and an efficient cooler like the SI-128 and an slow 120mm fan...New England is having strange weather: some days in the low 90's and then a week or two later highs in the low-mid 50's.

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