Recent content by ArsenicAcid

Did some fiddling around, cooler today here in Florida. Did quite a bit more research and found that indeed the q6600 has a tjmax of 90 per intel from some documentation a few years back. AIDA64 even says the same thing in auto settings. Also discovered in HWmonitor that CPU is infact the...

Yes, it is G0 stepping. Now here's another question. Everything I've been reading says that tjcase temps would be the most accurate. I'm assuming my motherboard doesn't have a sensor for that or I would be getting a tjcase temperature somewhere.

So, I've had the same system for quite a while. Had no reason to upgrade anything. Cleaned it out and re-applied arctic silver on things as it was due for a clean-up refresh. Valid specs are - evga 780i Q6600 G0 Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Antec 902 Air temp entering front of case when test...