Hot Skylake 6600k?

[Leovitss]

i just got a new motherboard, processor, ram & heatsink my motherboard is a gigabyte z170xp-sli i have a pny 780ti an intel skylake 6600k cooled by a cooler master v8 gts with 8 gigs of gskills ripjaws @ 2400 western digital blue 1tb 7200rpm. my Skylake is sitting at 70-80 idle and it immediately jumps up to the low to mid 90s and throttles under any real load. (my package goes to 100 celcius and sits there.) any advice? its all brand new hardware.

 

[monkey4sale]

Did you build this PC yourself ?
Something is very wrong. What does the BIOS report your temperature as? As I type just now my i5-6600k Chip is sitting at 28c.

 

[Leovitss]

Did you build this PC yourself ?
Something is very wrong. What does the BIOS report your temperature as? As I type just now my i5-6600k Chip is sitting at 28c.

I did build it myself, maybe i could take it apart and put it back together again?

 

[Leovitss]

the bios reported my temperature as high as [watch your language], but i only checked once.

 

[Ecky]

The cooler probably isn't installed correctly. I'd take it off and reseat it, or take it back to whomever built it and have them do that.

 

[Leovitss]

I'm gonna take it off and put it back on again, i'll tell yall what happens... but ima eat my ramen first

 

[monkey4sale]

Yeah, obvious and most likely culprit is the CPU cooler. Clean off the thermal paste, apply more and reseat the cooler. Are you using stock cooler?

 

[Leovitss]

Yeah, obvious and most likely culprit is the CPU cooler. Clean off the thermal paste, apply more and reseat the cooler. Are you using stock cooler?

I'm using a Cooler master v8 GTS

 

[rgd1101]

Yeah, obvious and most likely culprit is the CPU cooler. Clean off the thermal paste, apply more and reseat the cooler. Are you using stock cooler?

FYI skylake (k) don't come with any cooler.

 

[monkey4sale]

So that's a decent cooler....did it come with pre-applied thermal paste? Or did you add your own?

 

[SunnySeven]

Skylake pcbs are thinner and weaker than previous generations. Its instinctual with the v8 cooler due to its size and weight to really screw it in tightly as you usually would to ensure its attached firmly. However with the thin skylake pcb the pcb may have bent or flexed causing the cooler to either not sit flush or the bottom to have an air pocket in there.

Try loosening the cooler a bit and see if that impacts the temps, prior to removing it all, and then removed it all and see if the pcb is bent at all.

It could also be the way you have applied the thermal paste.

And of course check the fan rpms in bios and also check nothing is in the way of the cpu cooler fan spinning such as the cable.