CPU cooling issues

Hi J

An aftermarket CPU cooler would be a good place to start. Please give us a little more to work with, CPU, case, the more the better. And provided the name and model# of those aftermarket case fans you just bought along with how many internal HDD's you have installed.

Replace the stock HSF with this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835118020
$70 Zalman

TO remove thermal paste, just use isopropyl alcohol and a clean coffee filter or lint free rag. Because I do not drink coffee, I use an old T-shirt.

I dont think that those temperatures are normal. The stock intel cooler is capable of keeping the CPU under 70C' at default speed and voltages especially for a low-middle end model like the e7500
There must be something affecting the CPU temp such as:
1. You (or someone) has accidently rised the voltages in the BIOS. Try going to the bios and set voltage to auto
2. The heatsink is not properly seated. If you have re-seated the heatsink recently something might have gone wrong or if you moved the pc it might have slipped a bit out of place. (THe pushpins of the stock cooler aint the best)
3. The fan on the cooler is failing. Turn the pc on with the sidepanel off and see if the fan of the cpu cooler is spinning as it should.
4. DUST. Get a can of compressed air and clean the pc case. If your case does not have any filters for dust, that is really probable.


If nothing of these works, then the ambient temp (or case temp) is eaither too high or your chip is deffective and need to be RMA'd

If the casetemp is too high then it is probably one of the other components that is causing the problem and you should check the temperatures of all the components

Cheers

Well my HSF was not properly set in. While running prime95 prior to the adjustment, my temp would go easily to 100c in about 15sec, but now it stayed for about 1min at 85c then after the second test started, it began to climb and I stopped it at 93c. I have't done anything to the BIOS, except change the boot order. I think its my HSF, the rubber little teeth that sink in the mobo got bent so they probably don't grab on as well as they should; any thoughts?

I just finished playing some COD with my CPU not going over core0 74c and core1 75c
Does prime95 just push my cpu that much?

CoD doesn't push your CPU anywhere near where it could go. Prime95 is bulit for torture. So you'll definitely see a huge temperature difference between the two.

I think if your stock HSF has faulty pins, you'd do well to get an aftermarket unit. If you're moderately adventerous, you could get one that has a better bracket so you can forget about the pins altogether (which is what I would do).