Quote Originally Posted by Hachi_Roku View Post
you know intel thermal specification for q6600 is 62c right?
Yes. But this CPU won't have to last more than 2 years, and based on my experiences with dual cores, I am happy to run it at 1.5000v in bios - which droops to about 1.4v under load.

I only run orthos for stability testing, this machine will be running 3D rendering software which runs about 9 degrees cooler than orthos - ie 63C coretemp at 22C ambient.... I'm not worried.