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Hello:

I have put together a new pc last friday (first time). The system is stable but when loading the Intel Desktop utilities i get some message about high temperature on the CPU

Temperature CPU 74 to 76 Celsius (red)
CPU Fan speed at 1575-1580 rpm (green)
Temp zone 1 37 Celsius (green)
Temp zone 2 33 Celsius (green)
all voltage seems ok
12V = 12,000V (green)
5V = 5,104V (green)
3,3 = 3,248V (green)
Proces core 1,165V-1,224V this one varies but still (green)
E/S proc 1,484V (green)

My system is
Intel D975XBX2
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2,4GHZ
Corsair twinx 1 GB 2 x 512 MB DD2 PC6400 EPP @ 800 MHZ
EGeForce 7900 GS KO card

Can i do something to reduce temperature

How should i troubleshoot this problem.

Thanks

that is high... What thermal compound did you use and what cooler??

Are you using the retail boxed heat sink that came with the CPU? If you did and are overclocking you will find quickly that you need improved cooling...

Here is my E6300 overclocked to 2.8GHz with 1.4125Vcore...



The factory heat sink get above 80C.... Time to get better cooling!

Hi Apoptosis:

I got the CPU and a fan from the same retail box from Intel.

Im not overclooking at this time using the default settings at 2.4GHZ.

You are mentionning a heat sink (is it the fan) ?

What is a thermal compound ? and cooler (the fan ?)

Thank for your help

74C is high if you are not overclocking. The retail HSF should have had a grey 'patch' of thermal compound on it when you got it. You have to remove the plastic cover on the bottom of the heat sink. Many do not remove the thin film of plastic and will see higher temps as a result.

When I mention heatsink fan that would be the entire unit (base and fan) you'll see this mentioned as the HSF around the web.

Thermal compound is a material that is good at heat transfer. This is used between the CPU and Heat Sink to conduct the heat between the two surfaces. One can change the thermal compound to a different brand to improve performance and reduce temperatures. I only use Arctic Silver thermal compounds on my systems. Their compound called Arctic Silver 5 is big among the enthusiast community and more on how it works can be found HERE on their page. If you need to pick some up local Fry's or some electronics stores carry it.

Hi All,

SergioLeNo1 the Intel Processor Retail Package comes with the Heatsink, Fan & Thermal Paste already applied. You didn't by any chance wipe the three lines off the bottom of the Heatsink did you? Also did you make sure that the Heatsink was firmly attached to the Processor/Motherboard?

I would check that, & if you did by chance wipe of the Thermal paste you need to pick up some.

jtm55 wrote:You didn't by any chance wipe the three lines off the bottom of the Heatsink did you?

Here is a picture from my E6300 retail box CPU... It came with a clear sticker and when it was removed the three strips of thermal compound are ready to make contact with the CPU.



If you did wipe off the thermal compound no big deal, you'll just have to buy some.

When I installed my E6300 it ran very hot at first as well. I figured out that the retail fan was not seated properly. The push and lock tabs were not lockng. After reseating the fan the system ran much cooler but still hot around 65C. I purchased a Zalman 9500 and installed it with some artic silver, the system is now running at 32C and 40C clocked to 2.8.

Can anyone tell me what the default settings are for the E6300. I clock my system to do encoding and then I like to reduce the settings. Right now I am at 215Mhz and 1.5V yeilding a 1.486ghz. I would like to reset to the default but I can't remember the settings that produce 1.86Ghz.

danno wrote:Can anyone tell me what the default settings are for the E6300. I clock my system to do encoding and then I like to reduce the settings. Right now I am at 215Mhz and 1.5V yeilding a 1.486ghz. I would like to reset to the default but I can't remember the settings that produce 1.86Ghz.

266 x 7 is default and that gets you the 1.86Ghz -- way too much voltage though... reduce that to under 1.3V

danno what board, more than likely there is a load fail safe defaults setting, that will reset everything

Hello everyone:

I have tried your valuable suggestions and my CPU is now running at 45-46 celisus and fan running at 800-810 turns.

The thermal compound was changed and i ensure the fan unit seated properly and everything is ok now.

Thanks to all.

SergioLeNo1 wrote:Hello everyone:

I have tried your valuable suggestions and my CPU is now running at 45-46 celisus and fan running at 800-810 turns.

The thermal compound was changed and i ensure the fan unit seated properly and everything is ok now.

Thanks to all.

Glad to hear it worked out... What was the issue?

Hope you stick around the forums and help others out now that your problem has been solved.

HI:

I have removed the fan and heatsink from top of processor.

The thermal compound was not present adequately. The first time i inserted the Fan heatsink i played with it to position it and probably did not carefully make sure the cpu cover was in good thermal contact.

I carefully wipe off with alcool 70% the old compound on the cupper under the heatsink. I did the same carefully on CPU cover.

I reapplied thermal compound on the heatsink and make sure it cover all the cupper area and secure it on CPU top.

I have been monitoring fan and temperature for the last 3 hours and temp is still at 43-46 celsius and fan rpm is still at 800 -810

I will keep looking and may be help one down the road.

Thanks to all again

I second Apoptosis post. Better cooler and Artic Silver 5. I have a similar system and I used Artic Silver 5. Follow the online instructions for application. They look like the paste will not spread out the cover the whole processor shield but it will. I am using an Artic Freezer 7 Pro cooler and currently without any overclocking I am running a constant 40`c. and 50`c when running a processor stress test. Check the pins that connect the heatsink cooler (even the stock intel one) and make sure the pins are in and "all the way" down. When I first installed my cooler (on the same board) 2 of the pins were not seated properly. The back two on the 975xbx2 are really hard to seat properly, least for me. It took me about 4 tries to finally get the unit seated properly. Once I start overclocked I am expecting to be running in the 55-65C range still lower than the numbers you are showing now though. My guess is that the cooler is not seated correctly.

yeah, intel's cooler do gets hot quite quickly on the core 2 duo system. Even with the new better (supposedly cooler core). AC5 should definitely help. Also, make sure your cooler is securely into the slot. I found the new cooler which does not use any screws a bit harder to use as you don't how how far you need to push so it's securely into the hole. Check the bottom of the mobo and make sure the black stick is sticking out of the 2 clear rubber.