High Temps

edGfaCTor · 7 Jul 2011 at 15:53

I am running

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate Passive
I5 2500 with intel stock cooler
asus p8h67-m pro optimal settings with only change being achi rather then ide and running latest 1003 bios.
silverstone grandia gd01b-mxr case which has two 80m fans at the rear and there is also two 92m fans at the front.

the cpu temps at idle are 60c in hwmonitor, I reseated the heatsink and replaced the paste with mx2 no difference any ideas what the problem might be?

edGfaCTor · 10 Jul 2011 at 11:30

Any one?

I can provide more details if needed.

edGfaCTor · 11 Jul 2011 at 07:00

cpu is not overclocked I even disabled turbo mode in cpu-z volt goes no higher then 1.2.

I checked temps in realtemp they are the same as hwmonitor.

I am running latest bios 1003 for my asus board.

I checked all connectors are firmly in with all fans spinning and reseated cooler again idle temps for each core shows 59 57 60 57 also I moved graphics card to the bottom pci-e on the board hoping it would open it up a bit which it dropped the graphics by 4c.

edGfaCTor · 12 Jul 2011 at 08:44

hlennie said:
Either your heat sink has machined terribly and needs lapping or u have left the plastic on the bottom of it

I would expect ur CPU to be idling at around 35

In a tower case maybe but remember this is a htpc case.