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Why are my CPU temps so high?

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I have a cheap Enlight case (7327 or something, I don't recall) and a 1600+ AXP on a Gigabyte 7-DXR+ (poor college student alert!). Now, I was always getting high temps with this CPU since I bought it, but never had any stability problems. I had a Volcano 6cu+ on it, but the fan was too noisey so I replaced it with a larger fan. Still had stability problems, so I bought an SLK-900A, an all copper monster. I still get temps idling around 60 to 65 degrees C. I've tried reseating the HS on the CPU with no change in temps. I'm using some Arctic Silver (3, I believe).

For case ventilation I have an 80mm intake fan, my PS exhaust fan and another 80mm exhaust fan. My temp right now are 67* C for my CPU with about 25% load on it.

So how should I start cooling this thing down? I have another case that has a lot more fans on it I'm thinking of transferring all my stuff into, but that's kind of a PITA and black case + beige drives = no. But stability sure wouldn't hurt!
 
Is it stable? You might havew applied the thermal paste wrong too...Read up on the ARctic Silver site...
 
perhaps your motherboard reads the temperature wrong.. additionaly... clean the arctic silver with the highest purity isopropal alcohol you can find and put a layer of arctic silver about the width of a pice of paper on the processor.. not neccisary but i additionaly put a drop of it in the middle of the core and then twist the slk 1-2 degs each direction about 5 times after its latched on
 
ryuji said:
perhaps your motherboard reads the temperature wrong.. additionaly... clean the arctic silver with the highest purity isopropal alcohol you can find and put a layer of arctic silver about the width of a pice of paper on the processor.. not neccisary but i additionaly put a drop of it in the middle of the core and then twist the slk 1-2 degs each direction about 5 times after its latched on
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I cleaned the surfaces with rubbing alcohol, as I usually do. I'll try reseating the heatsink later with that method, if I find some time today.

jamezzz122 said:
Is it stable? You might havew applied the thermal paste wrong too...Read up on the ARctic Silver site...
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Well, once it hits about 75* or so it gets unstable. It rarely locks the entire computer but applications will crash.
 
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