Hi guys. I currently own a new system for several months allready.

My setup is
-Thermaltake Matrix case with an 120mm Intake fan in front. 120 mm Exhaust fan in back. And 80mm Intake fan on the side, right on top of the CPU.


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Mobo

Corsair HX520 CMPSU-520HX PowerSuply

Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Ram

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA2

Saphire Radeon 1950pro

Running XP

The problem is that, on stock speeds, stock heatsink with fan. My iddle temps are pretty high but stress temps are alarmous!

IDLE TEMPS:


STRESS TEMPS



It was even worse before i decided to reoganize the fans on the case. I actually had only one intake fan, in the front, and the rest were exhausts. Now i have the intake in the front, and intake on the side going straight onto the CPU heatsink and fan. This reduced the temps by maybe 5 degrees. I also moved my hardrive to the bottom of the case, so it doesn't interrupt the airlfow of my front intake fan.

But it still is running pretty hot. I dont know why.. I used arctic silver 5 on the cpu and heatsink. Maybe should i put more? can i put too much? I dont know what to do. It isn't even overlcocked and it runs hot!

You've either put too much thermal compound or didn't seat the cooler correctly.

wow! those temps are high lol. take ur cpu cooler off and clean the thermal paste off and seat it again.

Yeah, re-seat the heatsink after, cleaning and re-applying thermal paste.

As well, check to see if the vcore is right. You may even be able to drop the vcore and still have stability.

My B3 runs 3.0 with only 1.22v, and hits 65-66C on load with stock heatsink.

Apply the thermal paste paper thin on the cpu. This will ensure a good contact between cpu and hs.

I used CPU Stability Test 6.0 in order to calibrate it to Prime95 25.6. My load temps are about 10C lower with CPU Stability test, so your CPU has serious problems. Do not run Prime until you get it sorted out or you will cook it.

I strongly suspect that you have a problem with the Push pin mounting of the HS. I strongly suggest that you junk the stock cooler in favor of an aftermarket one that does not use the push pin mounting design. Get one that uses a backplate. At a minimum check that the pins are fully seated.

I cleaned off the old artic-5 and reapplyed new one. paper thin on CPU and Heatsink.. the pins are flush. the temps are the same...

Try it with the case side off. I assume that you removed the stock TIM in the pic above.

yes. When i installed it the first time. I removed the original thermal paste.

What do u mean, case side off?

good to know, thanks. My Q6600 comes in Friday and I have a feeling it's a B3.

These are the pictures of the fan mounted on the outside (it was making a whining noise if it was placed inside the case as an intake fan, because the holes weren't big enough...)

and the inside of the case.




These are the Bios settings, of every window






http://i163.photobucket.com/albums [...] del010.jpg

Take the case panel off like you were going to mess with something inside. Leave it off and put the case back in it's home and turn it on. Let us know if that helps your temps.

Edit:
Shouldn't the cpu fan be plugged into the motherboard?

Try moving 80mm fan from side to front if there's a mount.

It helped by a couple of degrees, maybe even not.. with the stress test and with the idle temps

Edit:
Shouldn't the cpu fan be plugged into the motherboard?

Try moving 80mm fan from side to front if there's a mount.[/quotemsg]


THe cpu fan is pluged in the motherboard. on the picture its right in the top right corner. The wire lets u think it goes to the power suply, but it just curls arround and goes back to the motherboard.

I have a 120mm antec intake fan in the front.

THe cpu fan is pluged in the motherboard. on the picture its right in the top right corner. The wire lets u think it goes to the power suply, but it just curls arround and goes back to the motherboard.

I have a 120mm antec intake fan in the front.[/quotemsg]

K just checking.

What are your temps now?