How can I improve cooling using a stock intel cooler?

Rafael Mestdag

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Mar 25, 2014
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I'm using Arctic 5 thermal paste but the stock cooler doesn't seem to be coping with the demands of an i5 3570K, so idle temp is about 40-45ºC and the cpu maxes out at about 69ºC which seems to high for this processor.

So, is there a way I can improve cooling using the stock cooler? At least until I get myself a decent cooler?