Paris says my E6400 is Hawt.

[Petebert]

Installed a Scythe Ninja in Jan. Got these temps E6400 @ 3.2. @ 1.37v using coretemp, idle - 44c, running a orthos cpu stress test 59c

finally got around to reseating my heatsink, didnt check my temps ahead to compare but I'm now idling at 50c cpu stress of 63c. I'm in ohio and the computer sits on a non carpeted floor that stays chilly in the winter so that could make for a few degrees but 50c seems to hot to me.

For some wierd stuff, I had to run 1.36v when I first OC'd it to be stable, to try and lower temps I've been bumping down all day and its stable at 1.30, CPU-Z says I'm at 1.296. I guess it needed a burn in or my voltage is not reading correctly, is CPU-Z a good way to verify or should I try something else because going from 1.36 to 1.30 has not changed the temperature at all.

Any ideas? I havent lapped this heatsink but it does seem to be on there pretty good. The reason I decided to reseat it was, in the winter I didnt bother to pull the mobo to put it on, real PITA. I just now decided to finally pull it and properly put it on.

[ps2cho]

Did you put the correct amount of TIM on the CPU? It should be about a pea's worth spread evenly (I just use the end of the device to spread it evenly) It should be as thin as you can get it...but still covering the whole surface.

[Petebert]

I would imagine so, I've been overclocking for a few years now and have never had anything like this before. Maybe its these push pin clips? its my first time using those, certainly the easiest thing I've ever used but they dont have the feel the older ones like the one on my athlon that made me wonder if was going to crush my chip.

[EmAn]

how is the airflow in your case and what were your original temps with the stock cooler?

[Petebert]

here's an old post of mine, only way I'd have any idea of the original temps.

"I've got a E6400, not overclocked, stock heatsink, stock voltage of 1.325. With the program that runs both cores at 100% i get, 65c with core temp"

interesting thing about the voltage, I've been running at 1.36, IIRC I needed 1.357 to be stable at all and run 1.36. Since I've been trying to get the temps down I've been knocking the voltage lower and lower today. I dropped all the way to 1.20 to to see if its a bios/not adjust the voltage properly issue and at 1.2 I could post but no windows. 1.25 and I'm typing this post right now. Interesting how after running at 1.36 for 6 months I'm now at 1.25 with no problems. Havent ran a stress test yet though. 1.25 and I'm still at 51c at idle.

I'll run a stress test after I hit submit so I dont have to retype all this