Those are pretty good compared to my Q6600 (G0 Revision) using the same Core Temp version. However, my CPU fan does not run constantly and is not noisy.
Larkina, your temps on all your cores look great! The Q6600 is one of the best quads built. I have two XPS 420's and both are running the Q6600.
On my XPS 630i, I wanted to increase the cooling of the stock fan/heatsink so I did add a single Noctua fan that blows directly into the stock heatsink, and that keeps the 630i a lot cooler. When I researched the Dell stock heat pipe heatsinks and fans, I found that they are top notch and better that what comes with the processors from Intel, so your XPS 410 heatsink is pretty top notch.
You might want to consider adding either an additional fan at the rear of the case or somewhere inside the case. You should see a couple of extra three or four pin fan plugs on the MOBO to plug an additional aftermarket fan into.
If your stock fan is making noise, take it out and vacuum/clean air blast it. They really do not last forever and the bearings might be worn out. You can go to Dell Spare Parts and buy a replacement if it is not still under Dell warranty.
If you want to see fan modifications, I posted pictures on flickr, do a people search for fiachra25701 and you can look at my XPS fan modifications. Since these did not alter the units it really does not alter my warranty, but the Noctua fans are totally quiet.
Thank you Darrell WV, I'll do just what you said as I had though to myself about placing a fan at the rear of my computer to pull just a little more heat out and now since you've pointed that out it only confirmed what I was thinking.Thank you very much! EXCELLENT
I have a home built using an Intel motherboard and Q6600. I have a Thermatake "quiet" fan/heat sink. My cores generally run around 38/39 according to speed fan. The supplied Intel monitor only reports one CPU temperature measurement and it generally around 50. According to the Intel monitor, the upper range is 80. The fan on the heatsink usually runs about 800 rpm (fairly low).
On my Dell xps/410 system Firebird, the cooling unit does a really great job of keeping the processor cool its just now as I stated earlier that the CPU fan has jumped on I quest in order to keep the temps down. Before installing the Q6600 the only thing you could hear running was the video card fan.I quess you can't have your cake and eat it too. LOL. I admire your system and Darrell WV's system for the quietness. I fail to mention that before installing the Intel Q6600 I had the E6600 2.4GHz.. These processors really get the job done. For instance using the E6600 downloading an average movie avi file,700MB would take me in the range of 30mins. Now using the Q6600 I can do it in about 19/20mins. under the right circumstances. I feel after really tweaking it a little could possibly hit around 15/17mins. It takes some folks days just to simply download a movie file of this size. So, hats off to Intel.
JMICHAEL
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March 17th, 2009 20:00
Those are pretty good compared to my Q6600 (G0 Revision) using the same Core Temp version. However, my CPU fan does not run constantly and is not noisy.
Core#0 = 45
Core#1 = 40
Core#2 = 44
Core#3 = 39
Larkina
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March 17th, 2009 21:00
Did you use Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste on the processor?
Darrell WV
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March 17th, 2009 21:00
Larkina, your temps on all your cores look great! The Q6600 is one of the best quads built. I have two XPS 420's and both are running the Q6600.
On my XPS 630i, I wanted to increase the cooling of the stock fan/heatsink so I did add a single Noctua fan that blows directly into the stock heatsink, and that keeps the 630i a lot cooler. When I researched the Dell stock heat pipe heatsinks and fans, I found that they are top notch and better that what comes with the processors from Intel, so your XPS 410 heatsink is pretty top notch.
You might want to consider adding either an additional fan at the rear of the case or somewhere inside the case. You should see a couple of extra three or four pin fan plugs on the MOBO to plug an additional aftermarket fan into.
If your stock fan is making noise, take it out and vacuum/clean air blast it. They really do not last forever and the bearings might be worn out. You can go to Dell Spare Parts and buy a replacement if it is not still under Dell warranty.
If you want to see fan modifications, I posted pictures on flickr, do a people search for fiachra25701 and you can look at my XPS fan modifications. Since these did not alter the units it really does not alter my warranty, but the Noctua fans are totally quiet.
Best,
Darrell WV
Larkina
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March 17th, 2009 22:00
Thank you Darrell WV, I'll do just what you said as I had though to myself about placing a fan at the rear of my computer to pull just a little more heat out and now since you've pointed that out it only confirmed what I was thinking.Thank you very much! EXCELLENT
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March 18th, 2009 08:00
I have a home built using an Intel motherboard and Q6600. I have a Thermatake "quiet" fan/heat sink. My cores generally run around 38/39 according to speed fan. The supplied Intel monitor only reports one CPU temperature measurement and it generally around 50. According to the Intel monitor, the upper range is 80. The fan on the heatsink usually runs about 800 rpm (fairly low).
Larkina
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March 18th, 2009 12:00
On my Dell xps/410 system Firebird, the cooling unit does a really great job of keeping the processor cool its just now as I stated earlier that the CPU fan has jumped on I quest in order to keep the temps down. Before installing the Q6600 the only thing you could hear running was the video card fan.I quess you can't have your cake and eat it too. LOL. I admire your system and Darrell WV's system for the quietness. I fail to mention that before installing the Intel Q6600 I had the E6600 2.4GHz.. These processors really get the job done. For instance using the E6600 downloading an average movie avi file,700MB would take me in the range of 30mins. Now using the Q6600 I can do it in about 19/20mins. under the right circumstances. I feel after really tweaking it a little could possibly hit around 15/17mins. It takes some folks days just to simply download a movie file of this size. So, hats off to Intel.