Quote Originally Posted by minsc_tdp View Post
quick question, my core TAT temps are always a few C apart. As much as 3 to 4C difference, the second core being hotter. Is this normal?

I think my AC5 job was slighly lacking on the bottom half of the chip. Which half is each core on, anyone know? I'm willing to bet it's core #2

One more question, I notice in RMClock that under Automatic Thermal Protection: TM1, TM2, Sync TM1, and Extended Throttling are all disabled. Is this OK? Will it affect overclocking at all? Did these get disabled due to something I did in the BIOS, like disabling EIST or Fan Control or similar? I manually turned them on and then forced both Thermal and Normal Throttling to 50% to see if it would crash while under Small FFT load and it throttled OK, so I think I'll turn it on to protect my chip.
Perfectly normal for 1 core to be a little hotter than the other at idle because of how work is scheduled. If you load them both, are they still a few degrees apart? They shouldn't be. The actual cores are separated by no more than 5mm and they are drectly in the center of the chip...

E6700 with the heat spreader removed.


All of the TM stuff is disabled by default. Turning it on is a good idea.