This is not good. New Build. E6300 Overheating big time.

[DarkShadow]

Right I've just completed my build. I've got the following kit:

E6300 Retail with stock fan
Asus P5B Deluxe
2GB Crucial anniversary
Corsair 520W PSU
Sapphire X1950XT

I removed the pad stuff on the stock heatsink and applied a thin line of AS5 down the middle of the CPU, I then applied the stock cooler. What on earth is wrong. Need help asap please

 

[DarkShadow]

I've got a pen drive, any instructions on the latest BIOS? Also double the temps, surely that's abit odd

Should I try a resit? Even thought I'm 99% certain everything is correct.

 

[DarkShadow]

I need a couple of slaps

I forgot to click in one of the heatsink pins to the motherboard. It's now sitting at 49 degrees idle, that still is rather high? cIsn't it?

 

[DarkShadow]

Pfffft, I'm gonna throw a couple of claps back!

It's 55 degrees idle

The motherboard is 37 degrees! Something is definitely wrong as my Asus A8V Deluxe was arounds 22.

Any ideas?

 

[DarkShadow]

Are you sure you have the heatsink pressed down firmly.

It should be slighly bending the mobo if its fitted right.

It's clicked in, all 4 pins firmly

 

[DarkShadow]

My CPU was concave and was running as stupid temps (E6300), so I had to lap it...

Also, you want a layer of AS5 that is a micrometer thick.. I literally just reapplied within the last 15 minutes, and boy I must have messed up the first time round as I've lost 15'c from my temps just by applying the thermal paste properly. I ignored the whole line across the processor thing and used a card to make it as thin as possible, and it's been the best way so far.

The stock heatsink isn't gonna be great.

Just out of interest, what's your product code? My week/stepping is 29B (L629B275). I'm just wondering if there's been a batch of hot chips and we've ended up with them..!

You definately wanna get a new heatsink, but tbh as an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro owner, I'd recommend a more expensive cooler. You pay for what you get Go tuniq tower 120, I think that's a good one. Or Scythe Ninja..!

I have exactly the same stepping!

This is how I applied my thermal:

I know the stock cooler is rubbish but my friend recieved his pc today and he's getting 34 idle, ther'e s 20 degrees difference!

I am looking to get the tuniq but in the mean time I really want to sort this out.

Any more takers?

 

[DarkShadow]

Why are you using mobo's sensors then?
Use coretemp or Tat to read temps, directly from the chip instead if mainboard sensors, much more reliable, also i noticed asus boards stress the cpu a little bit in bios, like 20%, as temp is always a bit higher in bios than in windows on my chip...
Also i dont think its possible for a chip to get more hot on one mainboard than the other, unless it gets more voltage or runs faster: all depends on sensors i think...

TAT is the same dude . .

Volts are stock!