Beating a Dead Horse?

[Nearsite]

OK, I've searched and searched these forums in search of an answer to this question, but to no avail. Here goes:

I got an E6300 OC'ed to 2.4ghz at 1.18 Vcore on stock HSF. I idle at 42-44C, goes to around 55C playing WOW and goes all the way up to 70C running Orthos for half an hour. Is this normal or should I get a better HSF? BTW - I have a P150 (I love it!) with three fans.
My HSF is running at full speed around 2100-2200 rpms.

 

[matt00926]

At that low of voltage that is NOT good. Take off the heat sink and do it again.

 

[Arcygenical]

Yeah. Re-apply HSF and AS5.

 

[Nearsite]

It took me almost an hour just to install the stock HSF!! Is there some trick to doing it becuase working with my AMD is 10X's easier than installing the Intel HSF.