My cpu over heating?

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Warlanoth

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Hello! I have recently noticed that my AMD FX-6100 6-Core Processor, has been getting a bit hot, as in 70c. I read around on some forums of people having the same processor as mine, and most of them did not go above 51c even with games running. I opened my rig and cleaned out my cpu fan, which i thought would make it be able to "breathe" after starting it up again, it shot up about another 5c, making it 75c. Is my cpu faulty? its only 2 and a half years old now. My friend has the exact same processor and his never goes above 55 with lots of stuff running. Any advice is welcome, and or tips and suggestions! Thanks in advance!
 
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jacobc888

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If you are using the stock AMD heat sink take it off and get some arctic silver thermal paste. I had that same problem and that helped a lot. I would also recommend getting a 3rd party heat sink.
 
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My problem is, im not too sure if i can do that without breaking warranty, i suppose i could give it a try, im a bit of a spoon with computer components what would the stock amd heat sink be? and by 3rd party heat sink you mean water cooling?
 
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I had my computer built by a company, its still under warranty til Febuary next year BUT I dont want my processor dying like a few weeks before hand, as time goes i assume it would blow up at this rate.

My pc build is as following -
Cooler Master HAF 922 Midi Tower Black.
Corsair TX V2 650W PSU.
AMD FX-6100 6-Core Processor.
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3, Socket-AM3+.
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 16GB CL9.
XFX Radeon HD 6950 1GB GDDR5 "Dual Fan".

On a side note i was going to swap the power supply and the Gcard but i thought best fix my Cpu before doing anything else. :/
 
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I was going to get a new gcard and a power supply, and possibly a cooler, and redo the thermal paste, as jacob suggested. so.. any suggestions for thermal paste and a cooler would be appreciated, not sure what kind of water cooling/cpu fan would fit in my case.
 
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Warlanoth

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Well, in my money, its around 3000+, im from Denmark, so in dollars that would be 402,30 Euro - 547,94 dollars - 547,94 pound. sorry im not quite sure what country you're from so i'll just post all these here :) I can probably squeeze a few more pennies in or dollars or whatever if it'll keep my system cool and running fine.
 
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