Q6600 Temperatures

[MotherMayI]

I'm currently running a Q6600 processor with an IP35-E motherboard, and something appears to be wrong.

I am registering temperatures around 80oc idle and 90 under very light load, at which point the computer is set to shutdown - Which gets annoying, as I'm sure you will understand.

I'm aware fitting an after market cooler will some what help, if nt solve, this issue and I fully intend on getting one. However, is there something else wrong as well? Do Quad's normally run this high?

 

[marc2003]

you've almost certainly bodged the heatsink install. you'll need to remove it, clean off the gunk with some TIM cleaner and re-apply some more and try again.

 

[MotherMayI]

Visually it looks fine, but I'll give it a go. I'll have to wait till I can get some paste tomorrow though, is it going to harm the cpu running it that hot for the mean time?

 

[marc2003]

i think your pc will automatically shutdown if it gets too hot. even so, i wouldn't be happy running at those temps. i'd power down for now and wait....