ell as the title states i have an Intel E6600 with a Zalman heatsink and Arctic Silver 5.

e6600 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115003
Zalman - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835118223

And here are my temps.



Now looking online and also seeing my friends temps with the Zalman and artic silver 5 usually get around 20c or at the very least like 30c.

Im trying to figure out why my cpu is at 40c? Both me and my friend have tried various applications of arctic silver 5 and it always ends up around 40c.

Right now i have the AS5 on the way it says on the AS5 manual.

Also, why exactly is the Aux at 127c?

It is not overclocked.

anything?

I'm not a speed fan user, but I see Core1 @37 and Core2 @37 and CPU @39. Looks good to me. I have no clue what AUX is.

Well right now during the day the

CPU is at 45c
and two cores are at 41c

I'm looking at threads right now with people who have stock cooling and are running at like 30c. I'm pretty sure i didnt spend the money on the zalman to have shitty temps.

whats your ambient temperatures?

About 28c

Your link is broke, which Zalman is it? and are you using the fan controller or do you have it plugged into the motherboard?

Sorry bout that *Fixed* im using the 9500 with the fan controller all the way up, about 2400 RPMs

No worries mate, I use a 9500 on my 939 rig and thought it was a bit of a pain to fit, the tightening down procedure that I used was the diagonal one and I really thought the mobo was about to crack! I have mine plugged into the mobo though and it spins up to 2600 - 2700, assuming that you have tightened it right down then do you have any HDD's directly in front of it because that really knackers the performance on mine I also found that removing one of the floppy drive covers really improved the airflow for about 7c-9c worth.

28C is pretty hot...does your case have decent airflow?

I'm not too sure about the airflow, i think the case is quite bad but i cant tell for sure. No the HDD is at the bottom right further down than the Video Card


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heres a pic, sorry for the bad quality.

You do appear to have some cables obstructing the airflow there mate, here are a couple of piccy's of mine which may give you some idea's on improving your airflow.

I cant really do anything crazy like that with the cables, im not very experienced.

Im thinking about buying new case fans or a whole new case as a matter of fact.

Someone told me that he had the same CPU/Fan/Case as me and that the stock fans are terrible and recommended that i buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811998121 to replace them.

Nice setup mousemonkey, Gotta love those Corsair PSUs.
Twisted, cable management is something you don't need much skill to do. Just get the cables together and tie them out of the way. The more you do the better you get. A few cases with good airflow check these ones out.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811129021 (great deal!)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811119068 (I have used this one many times.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811112116(Can't go wrong with Lian Li.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811133021(tons of room inside)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811119103( a monster case!)

Thanks Gh0stDrag0 n, I the Corsairs so much I now have two!.

@Twisted Like Gh0stDrag0 n has said skill isn't required, just time, patience a large bunch of cable ties and a pair of small nosed wire snips (for cutting the tails off the cable ties!) then you just need to sit down and start moving cables out of the way and either tie them to the sides of the case or to each other bearing in mind that you can always cut the ties off and start again, remember it doesn't matter how good or powerful your fans are if the airflow is blocked they are just spinning in space doing nowt.