i7 - 950 Overheating,help!

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MartinPaskalev

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My i7-950 seems to be overheating,im using a coolermaster tx3 and it stays at 50 degrees Celsius idle,running aida64 it goes to the 80's.
Fan is working,i've put arctic silver 5 as a thermal compound,a rice grain of it. Still temperatures are too high. Any suggestions ?
 
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A rice grain might not be enough. Remove the heatsink to see how far the rice grain spread. If it looks a bit mean and does not seem to cover the majority of the heatsink footprint, try a pea size. It does not matter if it splurts out a bit.
Also, your i7-950 is getting old. It might be time to retire it and move into the modern world.
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A rice grain might not be enough. Remove the heatsink to see how far the rice grain spread. If it looks a bit mean and does not seem to cover the majority of the heatsink footprint, try a pea size. It does not matter if it splurts out a bit.
Also, your i7-950 is getting old. It might be time to retire it and move into the modern world.
 
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MartinPaskalev

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Thank you alot,didn't expect it to make such a difference!
P.S for the upgrading part,I live in Bulgaria,and minimal wage here is really low and CPU prices are pretty high and the 950 performs pretty much like a i5-6500 when overclocked.
 
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