The CPU is overheating... and it's driving me insane.

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Getting temps in excess of 105+ degs celsius stress testing or playing crysis, fear, bioshock, or unzipping a winrar archive.

This happened with my old Zalman 7000-Cu even after re-applying paste 7 times! So I went out and bought an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, which also does the same thing despite the thermal pad.

Please do not ask me to re-seat the cooler as I have tried this now multiple times with my Zalman and it does it also with my new Arctic Cooling HSF. This means completely different coolers and brackets, paste applied myself and a thermal pad.

My father has also tried to fit it and it does the same for him and he has had over 10 years in fixing computers, and not one of them had a problem as mysterious as this.

OcUK, you are my only hope! :(
 
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ (939)
ATi Radeon 3870
Nvidia 8600GT
Foxconn Winfast NF4SK8AA-EKRS (nForce 4 SLI)
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Western Digital 320GB HDD
Thermalright IFX SLI on northbridge.
 
Are you certain you're getting those temps, or is the board reporting them wrong? Have you tried a bios update?

Put your hand on the heatsink when it's full load. If it is 100 degrees plus then it should be burning hot to the touch.
 
Not burning hot at all, just checked foxconn's site and they have a 2007 BIOS, my current one is 2005. Worth a shot or too dangerous?
 
I have a completely different board and CPU, but updating my BIOS to the latest version corrected my CPU temp readings. They used to read either 5 or 150+ :p
 
I have the same board as you but use the 4400+ x2 using a zalman 9500cnps hsf and my temps dont get above 50c at full load approx 32c idle
i got similar temps when i used an artic frezeer pro
sounds like you have either a bios issue or as suggested earlier the sensor is damaged
double check bois settings that the fan sensor is off otherwise it wont switch the cpu fan on untill it hits 45c
failing that the only other suggestion is if you had another 939 cpu test temps from that in your board

i think its more like the temp is being misreported as if you cpu where to be running at 105c it would have melted most likley taking the mobo with it
 
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there you go uploaded an image for you
 
I wouldn't trust motherboard CPU diode thermistors, too inaccurate. CoreTemp is good because it reads the on-die digital sensor directly on the CPU and will give you the most realistic reading.

Other than that, could be a badly installed IHS on the chip.
 
Updated BIOS, still massively overheating.

I am taking my readings BOTH from CORETEMP and SPEEDFAN. (in capitals so people notice)

Trying a single core 3800+ CPU now. If this is fine, I shall be de-IHSing my 4200!
 
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