High Temperature - E6600 with Zalman

ell as the title states i have an Intel E6600 with a Zalman heatsink and Arctic Silver 5.

e6600 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115003
Zalman - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835118223

And here are my temps.



Now looking online and also seeing my friends temps with the Zalman and artic silver 5 usually get around 20c or at the very least like 30c.

Im trying to figure out why my cpu is at 40c? Both me and my friend have tried various applications of arctic silver 5 and it always ends up around 40c.

Right now i have the AS5 on the way it says on the AS5 manual.

Also, why exactly is the Aux at 127c?

It is not overclocked.

I'm not a speed fan user, but I see Core1 @37 and Core2 @37 and CPU @39. Looks good to me. I have no clue what AUX is.

whats your ambient temperatures?

Your link is broke, which Zalman is it? and are you using the fan controller or do you have it plugged into the motherboard?

No worries mate, I use a 9500 on my 939 rig and thought it was a bit of a pain to fit, the tightening down procedure that I used was the diagonal one and I really thought the mobo was about to crack! I have mine plugged into the mobo though and it spins up to 2600 - 2700, assuming that you have tightened it right down then do you have any HDD's directly in front of it because that really knackers the performance on mine I also found that removing one of the floppy drive covers really improved the airflow for about 7c-9c worth.

I'm not too sure about the airflow, i think the case is quite bad but i cant tell for sure. No the HDD is at the bottom right further down than the Video Card


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heres a pic, sorry for the bad quality.

I cant really do anything crazy like that with the cables, im not very experienced.

Im thinking about buying new case fans or a whole new case as a matter of fact.

Someone told me that he had the same CPU/Fan/Case as me and that the stock fans are terrible and recommended that i buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811998121 to replace them.

Thanks Gh0stDrag0 n, I the Corsairs so much I now have two!.

@Twisted Like Gh0stDrag0 n has said skill isn't required, just time, patience a large bunch of cable ties and a pair of small nosed wire snips (for cutting the tails off the cable ties!) then you just need to sit down and start moving cables out of the way and either tie them to the sides of the case or to each other bearing in mind that you can always cut the ties off and start again, remember it doesn't matter how good or powerful your fans are if the airflow is blocked they are just spinning in space doing nowt.

Won't know until you try.

If the OP did not feel that they had the skill to exercise some simple cable management then lapping is way out of the question is it not?

I dunno what you guys are smoking but 37c is low temp. I would say 53c is normal use and 62c on load is okay. If you get like 70c start asking some question but common 37c and the other jack** say 28c is high !!! I think hes high !

This is what a say 27c is pretty low temps. I just say that past 60c idle you may have something go wrong, but under that your fine. I see too much post about is my temps are high? and the guy post 30c... New rules need to be apply

Twisted, at 39c your CPU temp is wrong, your Core Temps are normal, your Zalman 9500 mounts just fine, and no one has yet correctly grasped the nature of your temperature problem. Tcase (CPU) is always lower than Tjunction (Core Temps), and should Idle just 1c to 2c above Ambient (room temp) at low Vcore and stock clock. This is a common abnormality known as an "Offset", and can easily be corrected within SpeedFan.

Please read the Core 2 Duo Temperature Guide http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ture-guide to understand CPU thermal relationships. As for "Aux" 127c, this is a known issue with SpeedFan, which is simply reading an unassigned sensor input, and is normal. Just uncheck "Aux" in the "Configure" menu, and pay close attention to the Offsets section of the Guide.

Hope this helps,

Comp

mousemonkey, computer case cooling is always a topic high on my list of cooling priorities, so I couldn't agree more, however in this instance, the OP's most obvious issue is a simple offset problem. In the Guide, I recommend SpeedFan due to it's flexibility, particularily for offset corrections, which can solve this problem.

Comp

Thanks chaps, I shall try to remember that 15c offset issue for future reference, I suppose I should really play about with a copy of speedfan myself as it seems to be what most users of Intel CPU's use to monitor their temps, but having only recently come over to the 'darkside' as it were from twelve years AMD usage I'm just used to using different software, a combination of Rivatuner & Everest in my case, which has always worked well for me and it's been a case of 'better the devil you know' since getting this currant rig up and running.