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Worrying Q6600 temps.

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I recently got the Q6600 and the temps are a bit worrying. Running on an MSI Neo-2 FR and using Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. I am running at stock at the moment since i am waiting for my new PSU to arrive and possible solve the temp porblem i am now facing.
My case is a Thermaltake Tsunami and it should provide sufficient airflow. Reading the temps from bios and now using CPUID Hardware monitor the cores run as follow CPU0: 47C / CPU1: 47C / CPU2: 40C / CPU3: 37C in idle which seems a tad high since my old AMD X2 used to be much cooler overclocked than the Q6600 in idle.
Could this be a bios issue not reading the bios correctly or a cooler issue since i don't put much trust in Intels method of securing the cooler. I didn't use AS5 since i heard that the cooler i bought uses the MX-2 compound which is equiveland or better than AS5.
Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance.
 
I have used coretemp aswell and it shows the same results. :(
All these programs are reading the temperature from the bios though, right?
All my attemps to flash the damn bios have failed since the MSI tool won't work on Vista 64-bit and trying to run the flash bios program through a bootable device tells me that that the bios flashing ins't compatible with my OS.
Using Orthos the temps can reach up to 77C which is worrying!
 
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