Phenom II X6 3.2Ghz Temperature Way too High?

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I built a computer yesterday, its specs are:

CoolerMaster HAF 922 Case
ASRock 890FX Mobo
EVGA 470GTX
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2Ghz
G.Skill Ripjaw 1333 8GB RAM
...the rest doesn't matter.

All my cooling is stock, and the arctic silver comes pre-applied with the 1090T, my ambient temperature is ~24C but once I turn on my computer I watch the temperature and it noticeably keeps going up, eventually hitting about ~40C under idle. Then I started to just load up my files onto my computer, just dabbled around in a couple movies to check the system out. I then rebooted the system to see what the temperature was, 51C. This can't be normal. All my fans are running fine and at full speed, but I did have trouble putting in the heatsink yesterday that came stock with the processor, and there is "locking" arm, but at the moment it is not locked but the heatsink bearily moves when I try to, I am afraid of breaking the arm if I lock it the other way. Any ideas as to why these temps are so high?

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Reply to Wendel22

Ok 3 questions

1. What is the ambient temperatures?
2. Have you tried a stability program like Prime 95 or Intel burn in test to see what the temps go to on full load?
3. Are you sure the heatsink is firmly mounted and making good contact with the CPU?

Reply to SAAIELLO

1. Ambient is about 24C, or at least it was this morning, maybe 30C at max.
2. Have not tried Prime 95 yet, almost due to fear for my processor.
3. The heatsink was tough to get on, and was moved around a lot when trying to place it on, but it was never taken off the CPU. Currently, the heatsink is hooked on and if I try to actually move it around, it moves 1mm or 2. I can feel the Arctic Silver moving against the CPU below it.

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Reply to Wendel22

Well I would like to see what Prime gets it up to. I would run it for a few minutes and just keep an eye on your temps if it goes above 70 stop it. You might want to try reappling your thermal paste and also check the Vcore voltage it might be set too high.

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Reply to SAAIELLO

Did you ever get your temperature down ? I have the same exact processor as you.; was just wondering if you were able to get it down because I suffer from the same exact thing. I am not sure if it's area wise for me or inadequate cooling.

Reply to parallelprocessing

What cooler are you using? My friend uses the stock cooler and at stock speeds his idle is like 40C.

Reply to sabot00

Its probably the stock cooler and thermal paste, get like a cooler master V8 cooler and some new Arctic Silver thermal paste and it should be better. Another tip is when your pc gets dusty blow it out with a leaf blower (lol) and it will run cooler, when I do that it makes a 8 degree difference on my ati radeon 4890 with stock cooling.

Reply to smeelo

What are some recommended AM3 X6 1090T coolers ? I've seem some Zalman's and Coolmaster's; however, some of them look to big to fit inside of the case due to the case fans. I would say they were at least 8 inches in height. I seen that CM V6 at Fry's and it did look a very bad design.

Reply to parallelprocessing

I had the exact same problem [only a little bit hotter :??: ], what i did was get a AKASA AK-968, and check replaced the thermal compound with some arctic silver [Some random stuff off Amazon] and last night it was runing at about 30C...

Cost around £30 in total, but well worth it if you dont want to burn out your processor.

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Wendel22 wrote :

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Currently, the heatsink is hooked on and if I try to actually move it around, it moves 1mm or 2. I can feel the Arctic Silver moving against the CPU below it.

Wendel22 wrote :

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I did have trouble putting in the heatsink yesterday that came stock with the processor, and there is "locking" arm, but at the moment it is not locked but the heatsink bearily moves when I try to, I am afraid of breaking the arm if I lock it the other way.

Any ideas as to why these temps are so high?

Probably because your HSF assembly is not locked down.

It should not "move around" --- the AMD latching system is top-notch.

How much TIM did you use ?

Reply to Wisecracker

SAAIELLO wrote :

Erm the max temp is 62 degrees. so prime95 until 70 is a bad idea!

Reply to Anonymous

Zalman cnpsx10 on 1055t @3.8Ghz gives me 50 celcius on load 20c ambient,

24/30 ambient is warm for room, add 10c for idle =36-40 idle and add 20/5c load = 56-65c load.

That is on stock cooling mind you

Look at www.frostytech.com great for CPU coolers, check top five lists!, My CNPSX10 was number 3 when i bought it, its down to 7 for amd systems now lol!

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