SFaznSpEEdSTeR: It would have been nice if you would have let the Cool Down Test complete but even the partial test clearly shows that the sensors on core2 and core3 are stuck. Lots of these sensors stick and if you ran the test further you might find another one of your cores has a sticking sensor. Not all but most Quads have at least one good sensor. As for your uncropped image, why not do us all a favor and download a free program like Irfanview.

Kashelz: The TJMax on your 4 cores looks very well balanced. The sensors all have slightly different slopes. The RealTemp idle calibration factors can be used to balance the temperatures of your 4 cores at idle if you want. Just follow rge's recommendations for what a normal idle temperature is when testing at 1600 MHz and 1.10 volts. A Q6600 is about 1C higher than the E8400 he used during testing at these settings.

Thermal throttling starts to happen at a Distance to TJMax of 2 or 3 which is exactly what you found. It seems to do this because the goal is for the CPU to throttle itself and keep itself from ever reaching 100C.

I've posted this picture before but it does a great job of explaining exactly what happens so I'll post it again:



I ran Prime95 Small FFTs for 3 hours with the CPU fan turned off. The processor continuously throttled itself during this test. When it got too hot it would drop the multiplier to 6.0, cool down a little and then immediately the multiplier would go back to 9.0 until it got too hot. The multiplier cycles back and forth like this, likely hundreds or more times a second to keep the core temperature from going nuclear. It mostly sat at 98C. There were a few times where it would hit 99C but only once in 3 hours did it hit 100C as shown in the graph. I thought that was pretty amazing. You can be running a very stressful program like Prime95 and even if your CPU fan fails, your CPU will still take care of itself. When you see this, having TM1 / TM2 turned on in the bios isn't such a bad idea.