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Greenfire84

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Why is my brand new setup running so hot? my 3.0c is running at 50.1c on a brand new ic7-max3 with 1 gig of 500mhz corsair memory. With 7 fans all together in the case and motherboard. I still have stock heatsync with no thermal compound. Is the stock heatsync setup that bad? Shouldn't I be at 42c or so? I orderd 2 new UV fans and a thermaltake sp-95 or something heatsync but it got stolen by the mailman......i am still fileing police reports and filling out crazy postal forms. He suddenly went on a 5 week vacation too....the cockroach!!!!
 
Those temps sound right for the stock 3.0 cooler, especially since it looks like you've OCed the prco to 3.5 Ghz like it says in your sig.

Plus, if you haven't used thermal compound, that can explain it too. For best heat transfer, use thermal paste (I recommend arctic silver 3/5).
 
For one, I've heard that ALOT of mainboards read high CPU temps. Second, pull your heatsink, lap it smooth and flat and then use some good thermal paste/grease. If it is OC'd then you're actually not doing that bad.
 
abit boards, ic7 ones in particular, read cpu temps 8-12C higher than actual. the bios update that is said to fix it doesnt work either.
 
well thank you for the help. Im just scared cause this is idle temp. Not really doing anything major like runing a game. I think im gonna have to buy a whole nother heatsync and see if that helps.......and is their no fixes for the abit board? None that i can do manually?
 
are you sure theres no stickers or anything like that on the bottom of the heatsink, and that you applied thermal paste if you had any. under load my 2.4C@3.2 sensor would read around 70C on stock cooling.
 
no sticker no thermal paste, but the company is resending my thermaltake sp-95 and some thermal paste. Along with 2 more uv orange fans
 
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