Q6600 Overheating.

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Had this cpu for over a year now, great CPU, but getting very hot recently, also system temps climbing high, machine is screaming as bios alarm goes off.

What sort of cooling solution do you guys recommend?

Mobo is pos gigabyte one, like a R500 mobo.

PS: system heat is insane as well using Easy Tune 6, could the North Bridge be flaming up as well? If so, cooling? How?
 
Is it physically hot ? Have you touched the CPU cooler or NB cooler ? Sometimes the SMbus goes bust and it reports incorrect readings. If it really is over heating then it could mean that either your PSU is about to go or your mobo's phase regulators are up to no good - which is typical of cheap/gigabyte boards.

Maybe junk the whole thing and get an AMD AthlonII X4 - the first quad core selling @ R1000 :p
 
Maybe junk the whole thing and get an AMD AthlonII X4 - the first quad core selling @ R1000 :p[/QUOTE]

WHERE???
 
I'm getting mine from a Active System in Stellenbosch for R1025 - you can try online retailers like :

http://www.take2.co.za/electronics-...-620-boxed-cpu-2-6ghz-socket-am3-4940108.html

http://www.cyburbia.co.za/index.php...tegory_id=236&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=78

http://www.ikonicit.co.za/index.php?target=products&product_id=4660

Have a look around. You can get fairly nice integrated boards for it in the R600~R1000 range so this could be a nice upgrade for you.

The it overclocks to beyond 3.5ghz with standard cooling.
 
saffakanera said:
Had this cpu for over a year now, great CPU, but getting very hot recently, also system temps climbing high, machine is screaming as bios alarm goes off.

What sort of cooling solution do you guys recommend?

Mobo is pos gigabyte one, like a R500 mobo.
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Clean out dust.
Nothing wrong with that MB and a MB is not gonna influence your CPU temps that much due to the chipset it uses.

Buy yourself a Coolermaster Hyper TX2 for about R220. Many people here use it and it gives very good results for the price you pay.

You could also lap your Q6600 & heatsink for even better results.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=187892
 
Yep, you right ponder, I got my heat sink cleaned out in August (after a year & a half after purchase). Applied some thermal paste and she's quiet, the Asus probe reports @ between 37-39 degrees @ idle for the cpu with the mobo @ 43-44. Before the clean up the cpu used to idle @ 45 degress, even more during Summer.
 
saffakanera said:
Ja shes gunning for 70 at the moment!
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What are you using for temps? Use Coretemp if you're not.

Also, check that the HSF is seated correctly, perhaps buy new paste, clean it properly and re-apply and check again.

The intel HSF for the socket 775 can be very awkward and the pins can easily come out if you're not too careful.
 
70!!!, the max allowed on the Q6600 is 65 afaik. Best you switch pc off and attend as recommended above asap saffakanera.
 
Stick your finger in the fan. It should smack it with a force that makes you pull your hand away. Or monitor the fan RPM with speedfan. It should be doing about 2500 RPM and making a hell of a racket at 70 degrees. If it is not then perhaps your fan is buggered.
 
Did u check the dust? Screaming fan usually means its not dissipating the heat properly, usually caused by dusts or dried/crumbled thermal paste....or a failing cpu :P
 
Q6600 can go to about 75C, not good for it tho! I regularly hit temps that high while trying to OC on a stock cooler at full load with Prime95. So I bought the CM Sphere at first (what a piece of shyte - gave me worse results than my stock cooler), so I then changed it for the CM V8 now I peak at about 45C. Also I lapped my CPU. Overall the Q6600 seems to run pretty damn hot on stock coolers, between 40+C and 65C. The CM Hyper212 is also pretty good, I put one on a Q9550 a week ago, works very nicely!

A nice review of the 212 http://www.guru3d.com/article/cooler-master-hyper-212-plus-review/7
 
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Don't get a new CPU just yet, the Q6600 is still very good.

I have this exact chip, and never seen it go above 50C, normally stays around 40C - my case cooling is decent, but nothing crazy.

I'd think your fan is failing, or the bond between your heatsink and cpu has broken down. Best advice would be to get another hs+fan and install it from scratch.
 
Joker said:
Don't get a new CPU just yet, the Q6600 is still very good.

I have this exact chip, and never seen it go above 50C, normally stays around 40C - my case cooling is decent, but nothing crazy.

I'd think your fan is failing, or the bond between your heatsink and cpu has broken down. Best advice would be to get another hs+fan and install it from scratch.
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+1 Asap I'd say..
 
Woohoo my Q6600 is back from the supposed dead!

Been VNCing into a Celeron M 1.4GHz/1.5GB notebook from a socket 754 Duron 1.4GHz/512MB for a while. :D

My Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus died, thought my CPU was dead too after testing it in a Foxconn G31 and it didn't work. Purring along in this Asrock G31 now at 35'C under my CM Hyper TX2. Ahh I love you Q6600 and TX2. :D

Found out though that my 8800GT went with the motherboard. Asus suspects mobo's Vcore died.
 
No No hell no I love the Q6600 :) wont replace it! You guys think a 3rd party cooler should do the trick? BTW: the noise is from the PSU pulling on a newly aquired 9800 GT :D
 
saffakanera said:
No No hell no I love the Q6600 :) wont replace it! You guys think a 3rd party cooler should do the trick? BTW: the noise is from the PSU pulling on a newly aquired 9800 GT :D
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I have a 700w psu and I also upgraded my 8600gt to 9600gt and after the clean up I noticed a silent pc compared to before the upgrade. The 9600gt (1024) connects separately to the psu. My psu is a no name brand cheapie, what psu do you have saffa?
 
cryptic1 said:
I have a 700w psu and I also upgraded my 8600gt to 9600gt and after the clean up I noticed a silent pc compared to before the upgrade. The 9600gt (1024) connects separately to the psu. My psu is a no name brand cheapie, what psu do you have saffa?
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Is there a difference...?
 
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