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I recently installed my E8400 with it's stock fan/heatsink. I'm getting idle temps of around 45 degrees celcius, and it's jumped to around 60 degrees when running a Spybot Seek & Destroy virus/trojan scan.

I'm pretty sure this isn't normal, so how can I reduce temperatures without having to buy a new fan/heatsink?

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Hi there,

I'm almost certain that your heatsink isn't sitting properly. It's easiest to install them with the motherboard out. Basically each of the four little center black knobs on the bottom-side of the fan/heatsink need to be flush with the two white prongs surrounding each.

Good luck!
Scott

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Re-seat the heat sink, then measure your temps with RealTemp, RealTemp actually measures 45nm processor temps correctly. Nvidia 's control panel reads them usually much higher. But re-seat it first because it's very common for push pins to un-seat themselves for fun.

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After an hour or so of fiddling with my PC, I'm back. I noticed that I put on thermal paste as well as the stock thermal pad, so I used alcohol and q-tips to clean it, then I re-applied the thermal paste and put everything back together. I'm assuming I put the heatsink on correctly thing my temps went down a good amount.

Whoever thought of the 4 leg/pushpin idea needs to be fired from Intel.

RealTemp says 32 degrees celcius and I'm currently running Firefox, AIM, and iTunes.

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http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lgbowiscsp.html

MRFS

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Nicely done.

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It went up to 40-45 while playing Counter-Strike Source, I'm assuming I'm good? I was running Crysis/Far Cry 2 when it was running hotter, but I just want to make sure. I still have a couple questions:

1. What is "too high" of a temperature? So I can set the warnings and whatnot in my BIOs.
2. What BIOs settings should I be using?
3. How much of a difference will a new fan/heatsink make?

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http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_ro [...] elas5.html

Break-In Period
Due to the unique shape and sizes of the particles in Arctic Silver 5
conductive matrix, it will take a up to 200 hours

Message edited by charles48864 on 12-29-2008 at 10:47:02 PM

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Yeah I used that artic silver guide for my installation. I just ran the stress test on Prime95 and RealTemp read a maximum temperature of 60 degrees.

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