What is the difference between the individual core temperature and the cpu temperature?


I have a Q6600 at 3.6 with 1.38 vcore prime 95 at 10 hours and the individual cores vary from 60 - 67 degrees on prime 95 and 75 degrees under full load at 2mins (everest). Is this within acceptable specs for a computer I intend to use for the next 5 years?

speedfan has the cpu at 46 degrees during prime 95.

I limited the PCI slots to 100mhz, there is one more item to set a 33.3 anyone know what that is?




Specs

q6600 GO stepping
tuniq tower
2 110mm fans
1 80mm fan
DDR21000
raptor x
Asus P5e


It has been stable for the past 12 hours.

I believe everest reports the core temp. You should not exceed 65C during any load, so you should bring your clock speeds down. This way, you can expect 3 years out of the cpu.

65c is really a good rule of thumb especially with 45nm processors. Anything above 70c and you're asking for it.

Just noticed, but you did mean PCIe right? Setting PCI syn clock to 100MHz is not good.