3770K Overheating at Stock

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Hey guys,

A while ago I purchased a new I7 3770K and plugged it into my DH67CL Motherboard, it worked fine for roughly a month, then all of a sudden the thing just started heating up, it used to idle at 39c now it now idles between 65c and 72c and on little load such as watching a youtube clip the thing has no problem in ascending to the 103c mark, it beeps, shows artifacts on the screen and switches off, Its very strange taking into consideration that everything under the hood is good, the CPU fan is seated correctly and working, I have applied a fresh lot of thermal paste and I'm running at stock speeds, and it refuses to drop the temperature, I'm suspecting the thing is defective as i plugged it in another motherboard and the same symptoms occurred only difference being this time when I restart the computer it returns to normal but continues to spike.

Does anyone know what this might be?

Thanks.
 
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4Ryan6
A stock Intel cooler is shipped with the wire clipped and looped around the top of the cooler. (IMO a bad practice Intel has gotten into, it's clipped and shipped for convenience and most don't realize it should be unclipped and repositioned.)

Sometimes that wire can actually be touching the fan blade in places and slow the RPMs of the cooling fan.

It is always a good practice to unclip that wire and extend it from it's packaged shipping location, use a wire tie and form a small loop with the wire and position it near the motherboard CPU fan header, away from the cooler and fan, to keep it from ever contacting the fan at all.
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I have already been through this, and had no result, i tried roughly 5 different types of coolant as well.

 
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I asked how much - try again. You only said you applied "a fresh lot of thermal paste." This doesn't imply QUANTITY in any way.

Also, are you using the stock heat sink.

 
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Yes sorry, I've applied a fair amount, not too much not too little, And yes I am using the stock heatsink and fan.

 
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Like I said, the CPU seems to suddenly spike, it runs at normal temp for a while then it dramatically increases for no apparent reason.

 
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Is the fan running at proper speeds? If something is conflicting with its rotation or it for some reason is not spinning at intended speeds this could cause it to cool fine at idle (since at idle fans don't typically go fast regardless) but then as soon as the chip gets any significant load it'd fail to cool it if it isn't ramping up to ideal speeds.
 
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A stock Intel cooler is shipped with the wire clipped and looped around the top of the cooler. (IMO a bad practice Intel has gotten into, it's clipped and shipped for convenience and most don't realize it should be unclipped and repositioned.)

Sometimes that wire can actually be touching the fan blade in places and slow the RPMs of the cooling fan.

It is always a good practice to unclip that wire and extend it from it's packaged shipping location, use a wire tie and form a small loop with the wire and position it near the motherboard CPU fan header, away from the cooler and fan, to keep it from ever contacting the fan at all.
 
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