Overclocking gigabyte DQ6 & Quad Core QC6600

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Hi,

Ive recently purchased the gigabyte 965p-dq6 and a quad core qc6600 with 4gb of pc5400 ram (corsair).

my idle temps are around 25c and under full load (all cores at 100% @ 2.4ghz) its about 38c.

are these temps low for this processor?

Also what would be the best way to overclock this board and processor as i have control over everything in the bios, when i press ctrl + f1.

Cheers.

 

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Wellcome to OcF !

Post your Coretemp screen shot & take a smart guess on your room temp.







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Thanks for the welcome, here is the screeny:

the red 26 is cpu temp, 32 is system, the 4 next to cpu temp are the cores.

Ive checked in the bios to and it is the same.

it hits 38~40c rendering a scene in maya for 50 mins.

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Well, I'm not that familiar with Everest, really sorry !

But, if you can download Coretemp and try run it, it will show you the "relative" CPU temperature to maximum temperature allowed by Intel.

For example, if your cpu is showing onload at 50 degrees celcius until max . tjunction, then you still have 50 degrees headroom which is "a lot".

Try it like this HERE and repost here.

 

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hi, here is what core temp says:-

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Ok, let take the hottest core among those 4 which is 40 degrees, that means you still have 60 degrees more to maximum temperature allowed by Intel which is still alot of leeway to go !

As long you're under 80 degrees or 20 degrees until max tjunction, then your cpu temp is safe and don't worry too much about it !

 

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thanks for the info

is tjuncton the temp it throttles at or the temp it shuts the system down at?

I am using a tuniq tower cpu cooler btw, fan speed is 2000rpm.

Case is a thermaltake kandalf

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That max tjunction is the temp level that the CPU will start to throttle down to cool the cpu, not shutting down.








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