Core 2 Quad q9400 Temperature

[golba_17]

Hello, i have q9400 2.66 ghz, and when i playing games the temperature jumps to 65/68c, i have alpine 11 gt cooler and cooler master v1 thermal paste, does any one know how to lower temperature ?

My spec :
Asus P5E motherboard
Q9400 2.66 ghz cpu
Msi hd 7750 1 gb gddr5 gpu
Transcend 4gb ddr2 800mhz ram

 

[honluke0]

Open the case and clear ALL Dust.Definetly try and buy a Cooler.Good luck!

 

[10tacle]

As the other guy said, that is a minimalist CPU cooler really no better than the original Intel stock cooler. Your temps are about to be expected with a C2Q generation chip with it. You don't say what your ambient room temperature is, but I'll assume the typical 25C/78F.

For reference, I run a retro gaming C2D E8400 build with a Zalman 9700LED cooler and it hits no more than 55C at load being overclocked to 4.0 GHz. The case has good airflow with four fans. You don't say what kind of case or if you have front intake cooling fans but even if you do not, I doubt it would help much in your situation. You need to find a better cooler that will fit (preferably a tower of some sort) and get some good thermal paste.