Orthos, 2x Prime, SuperPI, Quake 3 Demo // My Temps with E6600!

[ghosty1234]

My 24/7 Setup as in the Sig.

Just tested it for the temps (here between 53°-56°). After some minutes i took this pic with all these programs running at same time.
Case is closed. Case = LianLi PC-71

- Orthos (blend stress CPU-RAM)
- 2x Prime (option "maximum Heat"...)
- SuperPI 32m
- Quake 3 Arena (Windowmode Demo)



I suppose i´ll stay with this setup, Untill i´ll get better RAM and PSU.

Best regards,
ghosty,

 

[leojharris]

My 24/7 Setup as in the Sig.

Just tested it for the temps (here between 53°-56°). After some minutes i took this pic with all these programs running at same time.
Case is closed. Case = LianLi PC-71

- Orthos (blend stress CPU-RAM)
- 2x Prime (option "maximum Heat"...)
- SuperPI 32m
- Quake 3 Arena (Windowmode Demo)



I suppose i´ll stay with this setup, Untill i´ll get better RAM and PSU.

Best regards,
ghosty,

just a heads up.

running all those programs at the same time won't really heat-stress your cpu in the way that you might think. ie > more apps running > more heat.

but not true.

what happens is your cpu attempts to divide the tasks up, cover all the bases , and therefore you end up with processing in a very distributed way that results in temps lower than if you say, ran dual prime95 only, on the in-place large fft's setting.

i know cause i attempted the same thing as you. ran dual prime95, sandra, orthos and a dvd movie all at the same time and my 30 minute temps were way lower than simply running dualprime95 in-place large fft's.

do a test:

run two instances of dual prime95, one instance assigned to each core and specifically with the "in-place large fft's" setting. watch the temps for 30 minutes. they will most likely be *way* higher than your findings running all the above posted apps.

post what you find out ...

 

[ghosty1234]

ok m8t...


57-58° with "in-place-large fft´s" in Orthos.

 

[deathman20]

Run small FFT's, it stresses the CPU the most.

 

[ghosty1234]

"small FFT´s":

...its about the same temperatures...

 

[leojharris]

ok m8t...


57-58° with "in-place-large fft´s" in Orthos.

for air cooling ... those are good temps; you've still got room to bump your clock speed higher.

are these higher temps than when running your multi-app test which you originally posted about? looks like a few degrees higher.

personally, i'd go ahead and clock the machine up until it absolutely stresses at 60 to 64 at the highest 12 hour test peak temperature. this way, during normal day to day operation, you know you'll be fine as there is very little you can do during such daily work/play that will stress the cpu like a dual prime (or orthos) test will ...

 

[ghosty1234]

Yupp, just the temps with only running Orthos (just EMULE in the background). They´re 1-2° higher then with this MonsterMultithread above.
Case is closed, Window in the room is closed. Little warm here.

When i get the new PSU with a 120mm Fan under it (Seasonic M12-700), and open my window, it will be much better. Then i am able to clock much more with still "good" temps @load , i hope.

 

[leojharris]

letting the cpu focus on just the orthos test will better heat-test your setup; the more apps you run, the more the cpu has to divide it's attentions so to speak and therefore results in not as concentrated of a work load/temp result.

here's my E6400 after about 1 hour of dual prime95 in-place large fft's, ... about the same as your orthos test:

about 62 on average ... (and that's with my main cpu fan at half speed ... sort of loud at full)

you've got lots of room yet for safe day to day usage; keep up'ing it ...

 

[IYIENACE]

Don't know if you are just sharing or looking to compare? But here's me if I clock @ 3.3.




And @ idle


Specs are in sig.

 

[leojharris]

temps drop about 4 degrees with cpu fan at full speed.

the point of all this ...

you haven't even begun to clock your 6600 yet ...

 

[leojharris]

Don't know if you are just sharing or looking to compare? But here's me if I clock @ 3.3.

Specs are in sig.

very nice temps ...

what i'm trying to communicate is that he has a bit more ceiling past his current 3.3ghz to play with ...

your running water, so of course your temps are a lot better ... but for day to day use and according to what intel specs for that cpu ... he's got a bit of room to up his speed.

that's why i feel quite safe running a 6400 at 3.6ghz ...

after testing 12 hours dual prime 95 stable ... i'd say it's safe.

my normal computer usage, games, video/audio work ,etc. never exceeds 50c ...

will eventually upgrade to water or TEC ... but only after using this current rig for a year or so.

is your cooling a kit or did you build it custom?

 

[IYIENACE]

It's put together from my old WC loop but with new blocks, I ran it on air the 1st week (stock fans etc.) and my temps were up there in the high 50's at load. I think it idled 40-something... I'm really pleased with the new temps! Sure you will be too, nice O/C.

 

[hyperasus]

I think someone has failed to mention here.......orthos = dual prime95. orthos is simply a program that runs two sessions of P95 without having to go threw the trouble of installing and running 2 sessions of P95 at the same time. orthos is the lazy overclockers way of doing dual prime95. orthos is all you need for heat testing.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all about multi tasking for stability testing. The best combo I've found is orthos + pcmark05. If you really want to make sure you are stable, just run orthose overnight, then run pcmark 05 in the morning. If you get a score, then rest assure that your comp is 99.99% stable. Learning to use the orthos+pcmark combo will speed up the process of finding your max stable overclock.