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Airwolf
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join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
clubs: | Re: What do you guys make of these temps? How much voltage are you using for the CPU?
What type of heatsink/fan are you using?
What type of thermal compound/paste?
How much did you apply? | |
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3 edits | Re: What do you guys make of these temps? 1.5125 volts
It's 2 and a half years old, the original e6400's without 2 megs cache.
I've used it for 2 and a half years in my old thermaltake swing, first with a x1900xt 512, then 2 years ago with a 8800gts 640, now with the gtx 260.
I had to do alot of interesting stuff to keep it overclocked but not too high temps. My temps were usually at 50-55c in the swing.
What do you suggest I set the voltages to now?
My 8800gts 640 died, since it was evga, I'm contacting them to get a replacement. I paid the same amount that a gtx 260 is now, so I'm expecting another gtx 260, at that point I'm gonna get quad core and put the 6400 in with the gtx 260.
Quick question: Could anything go bad with thermal compound in 2 and a half years? Should I attempt to remove it and put it back on?
The only things I've updated on my pc the past two years before a few days ago was ram.
Honestly, I would've kept the system a while longer if my gpu didn't die. The only thing I couldn't play at 60 fps on highest settings at 1920x1080 was Crysis. | |
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Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
| Temps don't worry me much, especially since anymore it seems like hit or miss on the accuracy of the number anyway - BUT - your core voltage is pretty high.
On all my Core2Duo systems (ranging from original e6300s to the newer quad cores) I've never ran any of them higher than 1.425 vcore. 1.5v+ is quite a bit! If you were having issues with your OC in the past, did you ever set the multipliers up to see if it was the RAM or CPU maxing out when you would crash? A lot of times I've seen it where people keep giving the CPU more volts and yet their RAM settings were fubar'd and the actual reason for the crashes.
2.8 seems like it should be easy for a e6400. I have one running 3.08 and a e3620 at 3.15 - but of course ymmv. | |
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