ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[davexl]

Hi,

I just completed my build with the following parts on my sig and overclocked it to 3.2 GHz (400x8). I'm using prime92v2 to stress test my system (small FFT) and coretemp is reading my toasty chip at:
Core#0: 82 C
Core#1: 82 C
Core#2: 80 C
Core#3: 80 C

Today is a pretty hot day so my room temp is at 28 C. I just want to know if these temp are too high for everyday use (game, watch / encode movies, etc).

Thanks

What voltage?

Firstly 82C is a bit high for everyday use, but the good news is that very few everyday programs come close to the heat levels of low fft Prime95.

Is your room normally this hot? I develop 2 overclocks - a balls to the wall one for winter, and a milder one for summer.

Just for reference, my Ultra-120 Extreme on a Q6600 at 1.5250v BIOS, damper on, puts out 75C coretemp Prime95 8k small fft at about 1.48v real, at 22C room temp. With two mild fans in push-pull. Phew.

[freeze888]

Ultra extreme and those temps? You either have a bad heatsink(very unlikely) or it's installed wrong, or you have terrible case airflow, or you have a concave IHS or heatsink base.

Well I installed the heatsink parallel to the PCIE slot so the fan is pushing the hot air up. I don't know if it's better to install it perpendicularly. I replaced all my stock case fans with S-Flex SFF21F and added an extra fan at the middle where the HD cage is so my airflow should be good.

What voltage?

Firstly 82C is a bit high for everyday use, but the good news is that very few everyday programs come close to the heat levels of low fft Prime95.

Is your room normally this hot? I develop 2 overclocks - a balls to the wall one for winter, and a milder one for summer.

Just for reference, my Ultra-120 Extreme on a Q6600 at 1.5250v BIOS, damper on, puts out 75C coretemp Prime95 8k small fft at about 1.48v real, at 22C room temp. With two mild fans in push-pull. Phew.

My room is normally not this hot, it's just today's weather. My vcore is set at 1.3625v at bios, 1.3200v at load and damper is on as well. May I ask what orientation is your heatsink facing since we have the same heatsink. Also what thermal paste are you using? I'm using AS5 and to be honest I don't know if I am putting too much or not enough. I followed the instructions on their website and applied a horizontal line of AS5.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

[426hemi]

Ok, this is strange......I took my 2 80gig drives and hooked them up to my Abit Quad GT and created a raid 0 array. Then I hooked them up to my Asus board and installed xp pro. All seems to be going well. I was able to do a disk defrag and a norton internet security full system scan. Both of these would cause a blue screen reboot before. This leads me to believe the raid issues are a bios problem and not a problem with the board 'cos the intel matrix manager that creates the array is in the bios isn't it? If this is the case someone needs to let Asus know so they can fix the bios for us! I am going to let the system run over the weekend because my rma number is still good for 10 days. Sure hope I don't have any more errors! The board I have now does my current settings with all voltages except for vdimm & vcore set to auto and there is 0.000v drop at 100% load at 1.328v

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ok, this is strange......I took my 2 80gig drives and hooked them up to my Abit Quad GT and created a raid 0 array. Then I hooked them up to my Asus board and installed xp pro. All seems to be going well. I was able to do a disk defrag and a norton internet security full system scan. Both of these would cause a blue screen reboot before. This leads me to believe the raid issues are a bios problem and not a problem with the board 'cos the intel matrix manager that creates the array is in the bios isn't it? If this is the case someone needs to let Asus know so they can fix the bios for us! I am going to let the system run over the weekend because my rma number is still good for 10 days. Sure hope I don't have any more errors! The board I have now does my current settings with all voltages except for vdimm & vcore set to auto and there is 0.000v drop at 100% load at 1.328v

isn't the Intel Matrix Storage Manager a separate program that is installed in Windows?...i believe i tried that on my Abit QuadGT board and it gave me all sorts of problems with freezing windows...once uninstalled, everything was operating smoothly.