Hi Mitch,

Your experience is similar to mine. I originally thought the Core2 chips
would run cool "out of the box" (even under load) because of all the
talk about low power; this was not my experience with the E6800 although
to be fair it _does_ have a higher power rating then the others. I've
documented my notes here:

http://www.xp20.dircon.co.uk/hardware/

It sounds like the Scythe is doing an excellent job on your system!

Mitch Crane wrote:
> Gerry_uk <gerry666uk@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:1164410591.17589.1@proxy01.news.clara.net:
>
>> Hi Mitch,
>>
>>> my E6600 and my full load temps are now lower that what my idle
>>> temps were using the stock cooler.
>> What core temps do you get at idle and full load?
>
> It's OCed @ 3.2GHz. I'm getting the temperature using Intel Thermal
> Analysus Tool which reads much higher than Asus Probe 2. I ran Orthos
> for 24 hours and it stayed around 50C. With the stock heatsink I
> couldn't run Orthos for more than a few minutes without error, but at
> 3GHz it would stay at around 65C or a degree or two higher. Now it
> idles in the high 30's to low 40's depending on room temperature (Asus
> Probe says high 20's to low 30's). With the stock HSF it idled over
> 50C in TAT.
>
> My vCore is set to 1.3750, but every utility I've tried shows 1.35v (I
> haven't tried measuring it with a meter). Running @ 3.0GHz I used a
> vCore setting of 1.3125 (higher vCore didn't help, which isn't
> surprising since the cooler was so poor). So despite the higher vCore
> and higher clock it runs much cooler using the Scythe Infinity.
>
> This cooler is huge, however. Some people claim it's hard to install.
> I don't find it difficult to install, at all. I did remove it once to
> reorient it and it is difficult to uninstall inside my mid-tower case.
>
> Regarding sound levels, it comes with a large low-speed fan which is
> pretty quiet. The other fans in the case and PSU fan drown it out so
> much that I can't even tell the difference if I shut the fan
> completely off using SpeedFan.
>
> BTW, turning the fan off doesn't even seem to have any affect on core
> temps, probably because I have the side panel off of the case and the
> Infinity is close enough to the PSU and rear case fans that it still
> gets a lot of airflow.
>


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Gerry_uk