I get temperatures of 66C and sometimes higher. I've been starting to get graphical errors on my screen but my card at load runs about 65C which is pefectly fine for graphics card (7950, not OC'd). I remember when I built it I didn't put on the thermal paste amazingly so I'm not sure.
3570K running a little hot? (NOT OVERCLOCKED)
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iam2thecrowe
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- Jul 4, 2010
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66 isnt particularly hot. With the stock cooler those cpu's will run up to 80C+, they are pretty flimsy heatsinks. I recommend that most people put a better heatsink on any intel quad cores if you dont want your cpu throttling from heat. Coolermaster hyper tx3's are cheap and work well. If its graphical errors there is probably something wrong with your graphics card. Are you getting image glitches/artifacts? or actual errors?
Both temps don't look out of line and the retail boxed CPU come with thermal grease already on the heat sink, unless you swapped out the cooler and got an after market model then you should defiantly put some thermal grease on it will help. You should always have it on to help your CPU temp. The graphical stuff sounds like a VGA card driver issue do you have the latest drivers installed?
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