E8600 overclocking temperatures

[PeterStoba]

Hello,

New here, new-ish to overclocking too so be nice

I've got an E8600 and a Gigabyte P35 (full specs above or to the side, wherever they are on this site) and currently got it running at 3.4GHz (extreme overclocking here). Loading at 46/48 on core 0/1 respectively, wondering what is a same temperature for running a 45nm chip, Intel says 72c but that is low isn't it?

Thanks,

Peter.

[affiliate13]

Hi Welcome,
Sounds like you are fine with those load figures. I run mine at under 60c at load under water but i had been using a xigmatek s1283 which gave me 4.5Ghz/1.32vcore/70c(heavy load).

[Billabong]

Several points to consider Peter.

Ambient air temperature
The application that is reporting the temps
The cpu cooler
Sensor functionality
The application used to load cpu
vcore

My E8600 is currently 4.0GHz (500*8) with 1.25v vcore, TRUE120 cooler and with an ambient air temp of 25°C Real Temp 2.90 beta RC9 reports my load temps (IntelBurnTest) as 56°C

[Kelainefes]

Welcome!

If you are using Coretemp or the Real Temp beta, those temps (if you are loading with Prim95 or an equivalent such as OCCT) are absolutely fine, provided your temp sensors are working correctly wich is not always the case.
What are the load temps of the CPU sensor? I mean the "single" temp that you can read with HWMonitor or SpeedFan, not the individual cores.
If you used Intel Burn Test to get those load temps and you got those results, i'm afraid your sensors are off.

[PeterStoba]

These are my load temps at 3.55GHz (taking it easy for now) and they seem to be ok as my room is a little hot and I don't have the best cooler tbh. They were done using OCCT, what confuses me is the vcore, core temp says the vid is 1.25, cpu-z says i am running at 1.184v, which jumps up to 1.216v under load, both are below 1.25 which is the vid? What do I trust?

Going to check the BIOS now to see what the voltage is set at and bump the fsb up a little more.

[Kelainefes]

Set the vCore to 1.25, the FSB to 400, the multi to 10x, memory to 1:1.
That should boot and give yo ua nice 4GHz.
Test with Prime 95 and if is unstable increase vCore a little bit till all is ok.
Those temps are ridicolously low, don't even begin to think about worrying till you hit over 60C.
The VID is a ingìformation written on your CPU, basically it is there so your motherboard can feed it the proper voltage.
If you enable PPM/EIST, VID is dynamic, so it will be aroound 1.1 at the lowest (6x) multi, and about 1.2-1.25 at the highest multi (10x).
Trust what CPU-Z says.