E8400 Overheating

KingEojj

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I just installed windows 7 and my CPU is getting upwards to 90c in temps, PC auto shuts down when excess of those temps, it did not do this when I had XP installed.

NOTE - me and a friend were looking over my PC before install and noticed the heat sink (stock cooler) was not installed on the cpu properly or so we thought. Almost instantly upon the "fix" i notice a huge increase in PC performance, however after the W7 install I was playing a game and under load my temps were reaching 85c+. Idol my PC was at around 49-58c(which i think is higher than before). On an E8400 which from what ive read runs very cool, even with the stock heatsink/fan.

My case is a full tower xclio windtunnel http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811103011&Tpk=xclio windtunnel that has 2 huge fans on the door and just installed 2 120mm fans so case cooling is not issue.

Im just not certain why I would get such a major change in temps after all this. Im thinking the cpu heatsink is not sitting right on the cpu now and what we thought was a fix actually made it worse ALSO i was going to replace the stock sink anyway so maybe that will just be a cure all?
 
You probably didn't get the barbs in the motherboard the whole way before you snapped them in. Well, it only takes 1 for the heat sink not to sink flat on the CPU and cause really high temps.
You did put thermal paste on correct?
 
Did you even use any thermal paste when you "fixed" cooling on your processor? For better and more efficient cooling, buy Scythe Mugen, which currently on new.egg.com is $34.99. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...093&cm_re=scythe_mugen-_-35-185-093-_-Product

Don't forget to apply thermal paste!

whatever thermal paste we used to first install it is still on there, we did not take off the heat sink and reapply it, he just kind of snapped one side down my guess is that its still uneven.

however i did order a new sink and arctic 5 thermal compound, i do have a question about how to remove the old crappy thermal paste so i can re apply the A5.
 
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I would be pretty careful about running your computer if you are getting temperatures that high. You could permanently damage your processor. I would not use your system anymore until you have the correct tools to fix it. Wait until you have the Arctic Silver thermal paste applied and the heatsink correctly installed before you use your system again.
 
90c is still within the TJ max.

But yeah it's sound like what I said, the heat sink simply did not mount flat. Just take it back off and reinstall the HSF.
 
I would be pretty careful about running your computer if you are getting temperatures that high. You could permanently damage your processor. I would not use your system anymore until you have the correct tools to fix it. Wait until you have the Arctic Silver thermal paste applied and the heatsink correctly installed before you use your system again.

my buddy is letting me borrow his "spare" PC for the week while hes away, i have not turned my pc back on since the events that transpired earlier, awaiting the A5 and heatsink to do anything else.
 
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