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CPU Temp Very High

XILLAX

XILLAX

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Hey guys

For the last month or more, my PC has been pretty slow and my fps in games has been around 20-30 fps, while it used to be stable at 100 on CSS and I could get stable 333 fps on older Q3 engine games.

My PC spec is:
O/S: Windows 7 Professional 32 bit

MOBO: Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB)

GFX (normal): Asus ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express)

GFX (at the moment): Nvidia 7900 GTX

RAM: GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel + 1GB DDR2 667MHz Ram (Installed 2 days ago)

PSU: Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply

HDD: 160gb 7200rpm, dunno the brand

CD/DVD: Liteon DVD-8900 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black)



Basically, everything was fine one day and then the next day when I went on my PC it was bust :(!

I already tried to re-format my PC but it made almost no difference(the pc ran faster, but fps was still very low)

I also tried replacing my GFX card with my old one to check if it was that, and it still didn't help :s

So, today I downloaded some CPU monitors and took some screenshots of the temperature in normal conditions, and the temperature in game.

Here are the results:

Normal Conditions:
no_game.png


Playing CS: Source
in_game.png


This is pretty worrying because when I googled my CPU, the temperature was meant to be between 5 - 61.4 degrees.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core 2 Duo E6400 HH80557PH0462M (BX80557E6400).html


What do you guys recommend?
Buying a new cpu cooler? or a whole new cpu?

If you think I should get a new CPU, which one would you recommend which will fit in with my current spec?

Thanks for any help,
Ross
 
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Thanks for replying.

I have cleaned the fan.
Not sure about the thermal paste, I just know that the cpu came with thermal paste on it and I haven't changed that since 2007 when I bought it.

I use the stock fan that came with the cpu.
 
Well, I have around £250 which I could use atm if I needed to get a new cpu.

So, really I can afford any cpu cooler within reason :)
 
chipps101 said:
is your cpu fan actually spinning ?
can you download speedfan and take a screenshot of that please ?

the fan on a stock cooler would be spinning much faster than 1700 rpm if the cpu was at those kind of temps, is the fan plugged into the right header on the motherboard ?
Click to expand...

speedfan.png


And yeah, it's plugged into the right part of the motherboard, just double checked it.
 
I swapped the cable from the CPU fan to the closest other fan, now its on "Fan2" and the rpm is still around the same:

fan2.png


Do you know how I can manually make it faster?
 
BIOS confirmed the temperature at around 80 when I first went to the "health check" to show the temperatures, but for the 10-15 seconds I was looking at it, the temperature increased to 87 :S
Also, my fanspeed was still around 1700rpm even in BIOS

very very strange

Also, I already use the stock cooler :(

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Thanks for all the help guys, but I think this CPU is just screwed :(
I made a new topic in the General Hardware section about some new components:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=17612047
 
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