is my q6600 fried?

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: tornadog
i was not doing anything. I had installed XP and was letting it install the updates overnight. at stock speeds it was idling at 50, when i bumped it to 3.4 it was idling at 55. then I came in the morning and saw my machine was off or in some sort of standby. i turned off the machine and booted again and went into bios and temp said 76 degrees celsius. vid is showing as 1.3125V.Memory is at SPD, voltage was +.1 over stock

Hmmm... Nothing conclusive yet. One thing to keep in mind that is Windows has an option to shutdown after it installs the updates. So maybe it shut off normally, rather than crapped off. Also, often times the sleep function of windows and some boards don't work quite right. If mine goes to sleep (stock speed or not) I cannot get it to wake up. So I disabled sleep from the windows profile. Never been a big fan of the sleep and standby feature anyway.

The 76 degrees celcius is rather high for a BIOS temp. It is cause for concern, but isn't a "OMFG I am going to die type!" type thing. First what you need to do is this.

1) Remove the heatsink and clean up the both the base of the heatsink and the IHS with some rubbing alcohol.

2) Put an extremely thin layer of thermal paste. Putting too much paste on can be a uhge problem. Seat the sink firmly and remove it - does the paste hit every area? It should just barely be filling the holes with a thin layer, very thin.

3) Put CPU to stock speed and stock VID, also be sure to enable CEIST and Speedstep. This will help give us better idle temps.

4) Load the CPU with Large FFT and record temperature after 15 minutes, check all four cores. Use CoreTemp

5) Report back with your numbers and we can figure out how to proceed.

One other thing to keep in mind, even if your computer can do 3.4Ghz at stock voltage (I have serious doubts on that, as 3.0 - 3.1 is where they tend to top out on stock voltage) is that your heat output is still 42% greater than stock. Depending on the heatsink's ability to hold heat and your ability to dissipate it, that alone could be the problem.

 

[tornadog]

3.4 was a a typo, it was actually 3.2(400 x 8) I was confusing it with its stock 2.4Ghz speed. I am at work but will go home and try it out. I just used a bead in the center and it did spread and cover the entire surface pretty much. I am getting a AC freezer 7 tomorrow, just to make sure its not this cooler doing things. I just found out yesterday that there was duct tape on one edge of the HS that covered some holes. I guess the previous owner had damaged it or had cut it for some watercooling. but it was added free when i bought the q6600, so I cant really go back and complain...

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: tornadog
3.4 was a a typo, it was actually 3.2(400 x 8) I was confusing it with its stock 2.4Ghz speed. I am at work but will go home and try it out. I just used a bead in the center and it did spread and cover the entire surface pretty much. I am getting a AC freezer 7 tomorrow, just to make sure its not this cooler doing things. I just found out yesterday that there was duct tape on one edge of the HS that covered some holes. I guess the previous owner had damaged it or had cut it for some watercooling. but it was added free when i bought the q6600, so I cant really go back and complain...

The stock heatsink that comes with the Q6600 (I am guessing that is what you are using? Forgive me if you mentioned this somewhere in the thread) is not going to handle an overclock at 3.2Ghz without running very hot. Being that the heatsink is damaged or had tape over it or what not indicates that it had trouble dissipating the heat, in my opinion. Run stock until you get your AC Freezer 7, then explore the overclocking potential. 3.15Ghz (350 x 9) should be attainable with just a notch or two increase in voltage.

Keep in mind that you probably have a B3 and while they report higher temperatures, they still might not run as hot as everyone thinks, at least in comparison to G0. Intel doesn't doesn't release Tjunction max on their desktop chips, which makes it difficult to know the true temperature anyway. You get a ballpark figure, and that is it. Keep the cores under ~80c load, and you should be fine. The individual cores throttle at 82c, and the chip will shutdown if temperatures exceed 100c in order to protect itself from being 'fried'.

 

[tornadog]

no I am using the Enzotech Extreme-X Copper Forged Premium Heatsink. Thats the one the seller gave me for free when I bought the cpu. The q6600 is a G0 slackr not the B3! Coretemp is saying tj is 100 degrees, si that correct?

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: tornadog
Coretemp is saying tj is 100 degrees, si that correct?

Only Intel has that answer and they haven't released that information to the public.

 

[tornadog]

1 thing I remembered that was strange was my cpu fan. I had it running at full speed. yet when I look in the bios, it would be at 2100 rpm one instant then become 0rpm for 3-4 s, then get another reading in the 2000s. Is that normal? But when I look at fan physically, its spinning, there is no reduction in the noise as if it was changing rpm. I also disabled fan control in the bios...

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: tornadog
1 thing I remembered that was strange was my cpu fan. I had it running at full speed. yet when I look in the bios, it would be at 2100 rpm one instant then become 0rpm for 3-4 s, then get another reading in the 2000s. Is that normal? But when I look at fan physically, its spinning, there is no reduction in the noise as if it was changing rpm. I also disabled fan control in the bios...

Is it normal? No, but it happens with some boards and some fan controllers. Nothing to worry about if the fan is actually spinning at a constant speed.