Vista - Q6600 temp, is this normal?

Hello,

Below is a screen shot of my speedfan test result, is this considered to be high?



Is this normal?

its normal if you have bad airflow or a dusty heatsink

so 40 is the normal temp? what's the upper limit?

40 is my temp with good airflow and an overclocked processor, if yours is stock at that temp then you need to clean/change your cpu fan.

There are two versions of the Q6600 processor. Use CPUID from http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz_150.zip to determine the correct one.

I have the SLACR and yes it's overclocked otherwise I won't be posting it here. It seems weird as when i try to increase the fan speed from speed fan, nothing seems to change... why is this?

Dwarf i don't see that info screen from the link you posted on my machine ? ?

@patio - I didn't actually post a link to the information from Intel. Instead, I went to the page and snipped the relevant information and attached it to my post. The link I provided was to a program which can reveal the type and build revision of the processor in your system so that you can compare it.

For the sake of completeness, here are the links from Intel:

SLACR Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 - SLACR
SL9UM Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 - SL9UM

You manually set your voltages when you overclocked yes? you didnt leave it on automatic did you? What voltage and clock are you running? and have you disabled intel speed step and / or C1E? (all this can seriously affect your idle temps)

That said dont worry too much about your idle temps (unless of course they are ridiculously high ) , its your full load temps you need to worry about.

Get yourself the latest version of Real temp Real Temp - CPU temperature monitoring and some software that will push your CPU , Id recommend Prime 95 or if your feeling daring Intel burn test Stability / Burn-in - EXTREME Overclocking

Run real temp alongside Prime 95 for a good hour , take note of your max temps on all four cores and report back here with them