Thread: Q8400 emps normal or am I lucky

Ok, I finally determined to upgrade from my very old Pentium D 805 and get a Q8400 Quad core. I have been reading how hot they get and how hard it is to cool them and over clock them with good temps w/o water. After getting a new case (NZXT Lexa S) and the new cup properly mounted on my motherboard (Gigabyte EP45-UD3P) I fired her up and was reading approximately 22-23c Idle . Even while put a load or prime 95ing it only got concerning 42c MAX. Currently as a heat sink, I am using a Zelman cnp9500 with AS5 and it workings beautiful well but it on no account ran my D 805 this low. I am using about 1.3 volts on the cup and don’t even include the fan at full power. I even have it O/Ced at 3.7Ghz and am at present at 21c. Is it possible I got lucky and got a really high-quality chip that runs actually cool or could it be a bad sensor in the chip or w/e. I just really hope it’s not aflame up at about 70 when it says 21c. My motherboard has never had a difficulty with temp and says the temp both beneath bios and program.

What program are you using to make sure temps? Try the BIOS, plus also Coretemp in addition to see if idle temps are about the same. The cooler you have is pretty good too. AS5 is also good thermal smear. What is the high temperature in the space you are in? Its winter over in the USA so I'm guess it’s a fair bit colder than usual. Some chip do run a bit cooler than others too.