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Johnny Dasio

Johnny Dasio

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I just installed noctua nh-u9b se2 cooler on ASUS P5K with E8600 CPU.
At first boot, bios cpu temps was 19 Celsius (perfect).
At second boot an on, i am getting 45 Celsius..
I thought maybe it's a cooler installation matter, so i reinstall it again very carefully.
Cooler is new an looks in excellent condition.
First time i use the noctua thermal compound.
At later tests i used coolermaster compound and finally i use arctic silver 5.
Nothing changed. I am getting 45-48 idling temps not only in bios but also in windows.
I used several cpu temperature apps (like cpuid, core temp, e.t.c) to check but nothing.
My room temperature is 27 celcius.
I am 100% sure that is not the normal temps i should get with this noctua cooler and E8600.
My PC Case is Corsair 200r with 2 preinstalled 14inch fans.
What am I missing? What else should i check?

Any suggestions from the community will be appreciated.
 
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Hi there!

Are you sure you haven't used too much thermal paste? You only need a very very thin layer since the two metals would be touching anyway and provide a far better heat transition than the paste itself, the paste is only for the small micro imperfections where the 2 metal parts are actually not touching.. so yea even a 1 mm layer is too thick, you simply need like a drop (the way I do it is I spread that drop evenly with a plastic bag over my finger)
Also whenever you put new paste between your cpu and cooler you will get random results till it actually stabilizes (the paste gets evenly where it needs to go) which is called a 'burn-in period'
So if you think you installed it correctly using the minimum amount of paste you need...
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Hi there!

Are you sure you haven't used too much thermal paste? You only need a very very thin layer since the two metals would be touching anyway and provide a far better heat transition than the paste itself, the paste is only for the small micro imperfections where the 2 metal parts are actually not touching.. so yea even a 1 mm layer is too thick, you simply need like a drop (the way I do it is I spread that drop evenly with a plastic bag over my finger)
Also whenever you put new paste between your cpu and cooler you will get random results till it actually stabilizes (the paste gets evenly where it needs to go) which is called a 'burn-in period'
So if you think you installed it correctly using the minimum amount of paste you need and tightened everything perfectly I don't think you have anything to worry about. Also temperature software tends to show funny results from time to time.. what I do is set up a temperature warning in the bios for 60 degrees or so then stress test with prime to see if it starts beeping (of course if you have a pc speaker installed on your MB) if it's beeping I set it to 70 and try again, if it won't reach 70 at full load in 10 minutes or so then you're good to go.

Bottom line, you should not worry about idle temperatures for now, you should just do a full load test with prime95 and see what is your peak temperature you reach those are the ones you should worry about anyway :) nothing will get damaged at 40 degrees :))

Cheers!
Edit: And yea I use arctic silver 5 as well and it's great!
 
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onlywildturkey

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i also am having trouble with the core 2 e8600 and heat on my asus p5n-d. i had the hyper n520, and changed to the 212 evo to get cooler temps and nothing has changed,
prime 95 geting temps in the high 70's c to low 80's c, room temps 75 F,
i did the drop in the middle with artic 5, i did the line across the middle of the cpu, and did it with spread very thin layer, still get the same temps,
im a big time fan of youtube videos for answers, but can't seem to get the idle temps under 50 c,. when gaming my temps hit up in the low 70's c,
im having the same problem as Johnny D, with my asus p5n-d, just bought the e8600 from ebay,
when it is overclocked to 4 ghz temps don't change much, just wonder if it is just a hot cpu, mb temps 30c idle 40c load.

in bios, vcore set at 1.3v, its reading in bios hardware monitor as 1.2, NB 1.3v SB auto others at auto as well, memory 5-5-5- 15 2clocks duel channel, 1.85v case is NZXT LEXA S, with 6 fans all together
 
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