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Just got done with my first build. I have an x58 mob. Cpu temp is showing 83 degrees. All my fans are going. It is in a cosmos 1000 full case. I am using I7 with the stock heatsink fan. Is 83 to hot, is so what can I do. When I take the side off it drops to 54 degrees. Any help would be great.
 
Celcius or Fahrenheit?

If it's Celcius, then yes, that's way too hot for idle temps.
In fact, it's almost oblivion...

Not to offend, but did you use thermal paste?
 
put your hand into the case to see if there is good airflow from the front to the back. if all the fans are blowing out or all are blowing in, that would cause the temperatures your seeing.
 
If you readjust the fans in your case and are not seeing better temperatures (65 degrees Celsius or lower) I would advise you to buy some thermal paste, clean the processor and heatsink off thoroughly and reapply the thermal paste correctly.

If you need instructions on how to correctly apply thermal paste I will post more information later.
 
Fans are blowing fine, If you would post the correct way to apply thermal paste that would be great. Thanks
 
If it's Celcius, then yes, that's way too high for idle temps.
Those aren't even acceptable when stress testing.

It sounds to me like the cpu cooler could have been installed
incorrectly, as the Intel coolers have a less than friendly install.

Those "push and turn" pins are goofy and hard to get in right sometimes. Make sure that the White Plastic inserts are fully seated into the board.

Here's a link to Arctic Silver instructions:
http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_route_step2intelas5.html
 
Just remember to use rubbing alcohol to clear off the old thermal paste from the cpu and heatsink before applying new.
 
if it is a push pin one there is a very very easy way to do it to get it right every time, much easaier than how intel say.

Turn the pins, then push down til it clicks and you are in, and it can only ever go in correct, otherwise it won't go in at all.

To get correct thermal paste on, just take the heatsink off, use soft cloth, preferably kitchen roll or something similar, to clean off all old paste and then put a grain of rice size amount of paste in the middle of the processor chip (or graphics card, same for both) then put the heatsink on, no need to spread, it will fill the air gaps on its own. It is dead easy.

If the paste is a little stubborn to come on DON'T SCRATCH IT OFF. Use rubbing alchol or mer to get it off
 
Aastii said:
if it is a push pin one there is a very very easy way to do it to get it right every time, much easaier than how intel say.

Turn the pins, then push down til it clicks and you are in, and it can only ever go in correct, otherwise it won't go in at all.
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They will go into the board in the unlock position. You just need to be careful.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
The white inserts will go into the board in the unlock position.

You need to take care that the pins are turned Clockwise.
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yea thats what i mean, turn them clockwise, then push them in and they will click.

If you look at how it works, the white pins go in, a black pin goes down the centre as you push down and that pushes the white one out so it can't come back. When you push and it clicks, that is where the black pin goes over the lip which stops the spring effect from the tension from the heatsink pressing down. Rather than having to push and twist and hope, you can just push and know it is in from the click and it works every single time without fault
 
The following was posted by Imsati a while ago:

First, getting the old stuff off.
Start by removing the Central Processing Unit from the motherboard. Carefully scrape off as much thermal paste as you can with a credit card or razor blade from both the processor and heat sink. Next, take a lint-free cloth (coffee filters work great) and rub away any residue. Keep rubbing away until no more greyish-material is picked up by the filter/cloth. Now, take rubbing alcohol (higher-purity stuff works, too, but rubbing alcohol is fine if you already have it and don't want to buy the other stuff). Put a few drops of it on the filter/cloth and again, keep rubbing until no greyish-residue can be seen. Do this for both the processor and heat sink.

Now to apply thermal paste.
As mentioned before, I have over clocked to begin with and I am overly-obsessed with certain things, thermal paste being one of them, oddly enough so I've stressed out about finding that 'perfect' application for a long time. First, take a good-quality thermal paste, such as Arctic Silver-5. Place a small amount on the processor and carefully spread it over the entire heat-shield (on the processor, not the actual heat sink). The goal here is to make an even, thin layer, and the end result is no striations/lines. (You're done when you think you can barely see the heat-shield, but it might just be your eyes playing a trick - does that make sense?) My wife watched me spend 5 minutes one time making it perfect, so take your time with it. Now, re-seat the processor in the socket and lock it into place. Once it's in there, carefully put a BB-sized dab of additional thermal paste in the center of the processor. Gently place the heat sink over it and lock it into place very carefully. The pressure from it being locked will spread the BB-sized dab you placed evenly over the core of the Central Processing Units heat-shield.

I let each method cure for a while and checked temperatures periodically. My Pentium D 940 Processor saw a 40 degrees Celsius Idle temperature. Over the next 3-4 days it dropped to 34-37 degrees Celsius, and then maybe a week after that evened out to 31-32 degrees.
 
Aastii said:
yea thats what i mean, turn them clockwise, then push them in and they will click.

If you look at how it works, the white pins go in, a black pin goes down the centre as you push down and that pushes the white one out so it can't come back. When you push and it clicks, that is where the black pin goes over the lip which stops the spring effect from the tension from the heatsink pressing down. Rather than having to push and twist and hope, you can just push and know it is in from the click and it works every single time without fault
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Not sure what you're referring to - but you don't push in the i7 cpu at all. The CPU is pinless - and you don't push it into the slot. The pins in the MOBO are very delicate and very small.

Align the pins and gently set the CPU into the Socket. Check to make sure the pins are aligned and that it's set in the socket level and close the metal cover. When the CPU is set correctly, you need to gently push down on the metal cover in front to get the locking lever to engage the metal cover. The lever takes care of the rest.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2385
 
Aastii said:
yea thats what i mean, turn them clockwise, then push them in and they will click.
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I'm not sure what's happened here, but I've obviously not been able to explain what I mean.

My only point is: If the pins don't come out of the box turned correctly (clockwise) then the white fasteners could be inserted into the board, and appear to have "snapped" into the board, but still remain unsecure.

I didn't mean to push them in and then turn them. I used that expression to describe the pins themselves.

They should be rotated clockwise to begin with.

Jamin43 said:
Not sure what you're referring to -
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We're talking about the stock heatsink fan, not the cpu.

2048Megabytes said:
I do believe the installation of an i7 processor is very similar to a socket LGA775 processor.
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Yes, the LGA 775 mounts exactly the same as the LGA 1366.
The heatsink in that video is exactly the same as the stock cooler
that comes with an i7, except the 1366 cooler is bigger diameter.
 
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