Overheating I5 2400?

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dunga105

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Does anyone have any ideas on this? I recently bought a use I5-2400 to replace a Pentium G2120. It works, but it seems to run a bit hot. I've tested it using core temp, and it often gets up to around 85-90 C when gaming. I've checked the cooler (intel stock), re applied thermal paste and generally removed any dust from the case fans.

Today, I put the old cpu back into the system, ran the same game (F1 2012),on the same track. The temp was 62 C max. I then cleaned the heatsink after reapplying thermal paste, put the I5 back,and ran the same test. This came out at 85 C max.

Could this just be down to the higher power 95w as oposed to 55w, or is it possibly a faulty cpu?

The rest of my system is as follows;

Case - Coolermaster Elite 120
Motherboard - ASRock H77M-ITX
GPU - MSI HD7850 2gb DDR5
Primary drive - Sandisk 120 SSD
2x4gb 1600 ram

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
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cin19
Yes, the cpu run hot, and the cpu has maximum temp 72.6°C. If you can return to the seller you are better to do it. Because I guess the prior owner may oc it even it is non-K version, but it still can be oc, like here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/5 so it may be the faulty cpu, I think even you use the intel stock cooler the temp will be around 60-70°C during the games. If you run the prime95 the temp may go up to that temp with the stock cooler, but not during the games.

Return it if you can. Also I never ever buy the used cpu or gpu, I recommend you do so too, because you never know what they are doing on the cpu or gpu. You can buy open-box item.
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If you are sure applied the paste properly, and the heatsink has proper contact to the CPU, then, I would blame the CPU on this. some CPU dies are worse than the rest, but over 85c under load is a bit too high.
 
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Yes, the cpu run hot, and the cpu has maximum temp 72.6°C. If you can return to the seller you are better to do it. Because I guess the prior owner may oc it even it is non-K version, but it still can be oc, like here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/5 so it may be the faulty cpu, I think even you use the intel stock cooler the temp will be around 60-70°C during the games. If you run the prime95 the temp may go up to that temp with the stock cooler, but not during the games.

Return it if you can. Also I never ever buy the used cpu or gpu, I recommend you do so too, because you never know what they are doing on the cpu or gpu. You can buy open-box item.
 
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dunga105

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I can return it, as it has a year's warranty. I think they'll probably replace it, rather than offer a refund, but hopefully I'll get a cooler one next time.

Thanks for your answers.
 
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