new build running too hot?

Monkey Puzzle

Monkey Puzzle

Monkey Puzzle

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I've just built my first pc and I'm a bit worried it's running too hot as it's idling at 45c (from the bios). It's an e4300 at stock on an asus p5b vanilla, with a zalman 9700 HSF with Tuniq TX-1 thermal paste, with 2gb RAM, an x1900xt with a zalman zf-9 cooler and 2 hard drives, in a lian li pc7 case with 3 80mm silenx ixtrema 80mm fans and an enermax noisetaker 600w psu with a 92mm and an 80mm fan. All the fans are set to maximum, and taking the side off the case only lowers the temperature to about 41/42C. The motherboard temp from the bios is 38C and the temperature in the room is probably about 27C I would think. Is it likely the HSF isn't seated properly? (it still seems able to swivel round on the cpu), and if I should reapply the thermal paste is there an easy way to spread it to make sure it's even? Any help would be really appreciated!
 
I get same temps with my E4300 on stock cooling.. glad to see I'm not the only one with a hot 'un :(
 
That's not the response I wanted to hear! :(

The cores go to 56/56 under Orthos.

btw, bit random, but the search option isn't coming up on the OCUK forum bar by calendar and quick links.... :confused: bit annoying
 
the heat sink shouldnt move tbh, make sure the tabs that hold it in place are turned the correct way so they 'SNAP' into the motherboard, but its hot weather too and had the cpu had time to settle in ?
 
Tabs that snap into place?? :confused: do you mean on the motherboard?

Hmm, thing is, the screws I was sent that hold the mounting bracket on the zalman 9700 were too short, so it has something of a homemade fix - rather than having the nuts in the hexagonal holders in the mounting bracket under the motherboard, I've used some longer screws and they're going through the other way, so the nuts are on the heat sink side, as otherwise the bolt threads would be sticking out too far below the motherbard, if that makes sense? They're tightened as much as they can be (using a screwdriver and needle-nosed pliers), but the heatsink can swivel with a bit of effort.

I'm guessing the contact isn't great though, as core0 runs 2-5C hotter than core1 idle. Atm they're clocked at 2900(322x9) at 1.35v and ran Orthos stable for about 15 hours without problems, but the cpu temps are pretty toasty at about 46c & 50c idle and 66-70/66-70C running orthos, using coretemp.

I'm using tuniq tx-1 paste; I don't know whether it is a curing paste or not.

I may add another 80mm below the 80mm exhaust fan, or add a top 120mm fan to the top of the case blowing air out.

Btw, when I set the multiplier to 6 orthos was still seeing it as x9, whilst cpu-z showed it as x6. Any ideas on why it's doing this?
 
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