Is this i7 4770k CPU bad? (BIos Overheating and OCCT Results inside)

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EternalGamer2

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So a buddy of mine just put together a build two days ago. And he went to run Farcry 3 and about 10 minute sin his BIOS popped up a CPU overheating message. Stock heatsink, stock speed. No overclocking.

So then I had him run OCCT and he got this:

OCCT LINPACK TEST RESULTS

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OCCT CPU TEST RESULTS

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Does he have a bad CPU? Does he need to try resetting the heatsink? Is it possibly the motherboard?

Here are his stats:

I7 4770K (at stock speed)
Asus Z87-A
Kingston Hyper Blue DDR3 1600MHZ RAM
Gigabit Radeon 7970 GHZ
Shinobi XL ATX Case
Corsair 600W Modular Power Supply

Thanks in advance,

-Dan
 
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slomo4sho


The heatsink does have pushpins but you still need to screw it down once you push it in. The factory applied stuff is fine as long as you don't take off the heatsink. Once you take it off, you will need to remove the existing paste and apply new paste before remounting for optimal temps.
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The heatsink does have pushpins but you still need to screw it down once you push it in. The factory applied stuff is fine as long as you don't take off the heatsink. Once you take it off, you will need to remove the existing paste and apply new paste before remounting for optimal temps.
 
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