Hello, I just bought a new heatsink TPC 800 (and a pair of 120mm fans) to replace my old Scythe Mine rev. B with the plan to OC later.
My system is an Asrock Z68 Pro3, i5 2500K 3.3Ghz, here are the results I get:
The pic explains it better than me, after a short standard Intel Burn Test running at stock speeds, the temps can get as high as 65º even when ambient temp is ~26º. OCing is not viable since even a little bump makes temps go up to 75º and more.
The weird thing is that temps are more or less the same as with my old heatsink, both idle and load. I´m not an expert installing heatsinks but I´ve done it a couple times and never had this problem before. I´m out of ideas as to what it might be, or if the motherboard as anything to do with it.
Motherboard is not bent and applying pressure manually to the heatsink made no difference. The heatsink gets warm to the touch when burn testing, but I dont know if it´s hot enough or the heatsink came bad or what.
As of now I´ve tried 3 times. Applied Cooler Master thermal paste (I don´t have AS5 right now) 1º time in cross pattern, 2º just a very fine line, 3º grain of rice in the middle, all with same results. On detach I can see that thermal paste is well spread.
Any ideas?
My system is an Asrock Z68 Pro3, i5 2500K 3.3Ghz, here are the results I get:
The pic explains it better than me, after a short standard Intel Burn Test running at stock speeds, the temps can get as high as 65º even when ambient temp is ~26º. OCing is not viable since even a little bump makes temps go up to 75º and more.
The weird thing is that temps are more or less the same as with my old heatsink, both idle and load. I´m not an expert installing heatsinks but I´ve done it a couple times and never had this problem before. I´m out of ideas as to what it might be, or if the motherboard as anything to do with it.
Motherboard is not bent and applying pressure manually to the heatsink made no difference. The heatsink gets warm to the touch when burn testing, but I dont know if it´s hot enough or the heatsink came bad or what.
As of now I´ve tried 3 times. Applied Cooler Master thermal paste (I don´t have AS5 right now) 1º time in cross pattern, 2º just a very fine line, 3º grain of rice in the middle, all with same results. On detach I can see that thermal paste is well spread.
Any ideas?
