4670K getting WAY too hot

[Jackson413]

Hi all. For Christmas I was building a computer and when it was all assembled, I installed the drivers. Lastly I installed Speedfan, which indicated that my CPU was at 128 C. Upon seeing that, I immediately shut my computer down.

Motherboard is the MSI z87 gd45
CPU is Intel 4670K
Aftermarket Fan is Coolermaster 220 Evo

I installed the heatsink with a video on the internet.

Sadly I'm with family friends to celebrate Christmas so anything else is going off memory.

My questions are:

- If my CPU was that hot, did it sustain damage?

- Is there anything blatantly obvious that I have done wrong?

I will try to answer any questions as best as I can.

- Jackson

 

[JOOK-D]

Did you forget to apply thermal paste? 😛 Or plug in the CPU fan into the correct header?

 

[Neverrazor]

128 C and your computer did not shut down it self ....... not cool !

you need to set 100 C is the Max temp and if reached pc shut down it self for the sake of your cpu...


now ...


1-again idk why the hell did your motherboard did not do a force shut down to save your cpu.....

2-First the big chance is that your cooler master is not even touching the cpu.... thats the only logic answer to such temp

3-watch this video its for cm 212 but that have the same mounting as your cooler ..... unbolt your whole motherboard and do it as exactly as this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlrqzwxJig


do that and report

 

[Jackson413]

is there a chance that the program was wrong?

 

[JOOK-D]

is there a chance that the program was wrong?

Of course. Try HWinfo/HWMonitor. I also get readings of 128C on one of my sensors on my motherboard, not the CPU one, but it's a dead sensor and reads nothing.

 

[Jackson413]

In response to the video that was posted, that was actually the video that I watched.