Overclocking trouble

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I've been trying loads of combinations, changing the bclck repeatedly... tried messing around with voltages and frequencies to underclock ram etc, but no luck...
I've had the machine at 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 ghz, with the temperature soaring to 90-95 according to real temp and core temp... which I don't really trust at this stage... The thermalright 120 I have is barely warm, pushing out reasonably warm air... Speedfan says Im at 70...
Since letting the motherboard take control of the fans (instead of the fan controller) its at 3.6ghz at 81,81,84,84 degrees...

I have read so many guides and tried a lot... What am I doing wrong? I have a thermalright 120, with push noctua fan (will try a pull as well at some point)...
3.6 is idle with 50 degrees... ambient is quite high as its been baking recently but its relatively cool right now and still getting such high temps...
Guessing the heatsink could be sat incorrectly? too much heat compound? I'm a noob and stuck!

All help would be greatly appreciated at this point!
 
It definately sounds like the HSF isn't seated correctly, or too much/little thermal compound has been used. If your cores are at 80, then the TRUE should be hot to the touch.

I'd reseat the HSF, and make sure you use the correct amount of TIM. How much did you use?
 
Thanks for the response...
The thing is I swear it is sat correctly, and I swear I put the right amount on... As I was pretty nervous with it being my first machine I double and tripple checked everything!

I guess I still messed up... How do you make sure its lined up correctly?
I put a pea sized dollop on the cpu and used a plastic bag to apply it... added similar amount to heatsink...?
 
Resat heatsink with fresh thermal paste and it didn't seem to make a difference... Im at 3.8ghz vCore of 1.3, everything else underclocked... With temperatures of 88,89,84,85 in prime95!
am 10/11 away from TJ max on one core...
Is there anyway that this reading can be incorrect? Im on windows 7 RC 1 64 bit... Using real temp (core temp displays the same..)
Speedfan however displays 74,74,75,75...
Mac OSX gets 86,80,88,87,83,81,84,82 (has temps for 8 of my 4 cores :p)

Very lost as the heatink still isnt more than warm after 10 minutes..
 
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