are these temps good or bad for an oc?

[Romstar]

my q6600 is currently running 41 degress according to speed fan when im using this heatsink and fan: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835109140 that is my heatsink and here is my fan: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835226013 that is the fan attached to the heatsink. So I figured I got a pretty decent setup to OC but isnt 41 C too high to OC? btw im using silver 5 or w/e it is called.

 

[vpsaline]

Take a screenshot of all of speedfan's readings and post it here. What is your room temperature, how much thermal grease did you put, how much air flow is in your case on a scale of 1-10?

 

[Romstar]

btw by 41 degrees I meant that at full load(idle is 27/28).

 

[Romstar]

that is the link for it.
http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/Kingromstar_2007/

 

[Romstar]

btw I got a 25 cm side fan blowing in air at 600 rpm and 2 other fans blowing out air in the back and 1 fan blowing in air on teh cpu. It is a full tower case.

 

[vpsaline]

ya those temps are fine, you can basically keep overclocking until you reach 55, same temp as your current 41 during Orthos.

 

[Romstar]

so you just said I can OC until I reach 41 degress which I already have, therefore I cant?

 

[vpsaline]

No i mean that you can keep overclocking until your 41 becomes 55 when loaded, no more. 55 max loaded using orthos.

I am interested in knowing the "Prod Code:" and "FPO/BATCH #:" on your box, I might buy a q6600 soon. Tell us how well your overclocking goes. How long ago did you purchase the cpu?

 

[Romstar]

I bought it like 2 weeks ago.. so yeah I just plan to take it to 3 ghz a core thats all.

 

[warezme]

btw by 41 degrees I meant that at full load(idle is 27/28).

Those sound like good temps but make sure you are reading core temps and not die temps.

on die temp is a single number usually (aka ntune) core temp are two numbers one for each core.

Riva Tuner(w/C2D plugin), TAT, will show you both temps, one higher than the other usually and they are usually 10c - 12c higher than the die.

So if your die is 41C load your cores will be something like one at 51C and one at 53C or slightly higher. but so far your temps are still good either way.

I have noticed that voltage increases are the thing that drives my temps up more than Mhz scaling.

 

[warezme]

oops my first sentence was dislexic I meant die not core...., sorry to confuse