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E6300 50C idle

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Screenshots say it all. These were taken with CPU usage between 2% and 11%.
I cleaned the old thermal residue off the heatsink and CPU 2 days ago and applied some fresh thermal compound. It's not made any difference.
Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-965P-S3. The actual gold heatsink on the motherboard is too hot to touch whereas the CPU heatsink barely warm. The gold heatsink is sitting right next to the CPU so I'm inclined to think that I'm getting false temp readings, but I'd like to know for sure.

By the way, it's not overclocked and I'm using the stock cooler.
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Thanks for any help.
 
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Bleah, I was told that the stock cooler would be fine... I guess I'll get a new cooler before summer sets in.
 
Yeah, the case supports a front intake, I just didn't get one. Would it make much difference though? The rear fan has high/med/low settings and changing those doesn't seem to affect the temp much so I keep it on low since it's the quietest. I'd rather not mount a front intake. I'd like to keep noise to a minimum and there are 4 fans running in there already.
 
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The heatsink is seated properly. I don't think I put too much thermal compound on, but I doubt that what I used was too much. The temps weren't always this high. I built the machine about 2 months ago and it was low 40s/high 30s at first.

I've had a desk fan pointed at the case front for about 10 minutes now with the rear exhaust fan on high and still no change in the temp.
 
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