i5-2500K idling at 95C

[foulowl]

Hi folks,

I was digging through dmesg today when I noticed:

[ 1045.760470] CPU1: Package temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1)

Which obviously was a red flag for me.

I then looked through mcelog and found that this has been dating back to May. I looked in the bios and saw that CPU fan speed is set to max, seems to be spinning just fine.

lm-sensors shows the CPU fan speed at 2800 RPM, and all four cores idling at around 95C. WTF?

I have three case fans and they are all clean. What could be going on here? Is the CPU defective? Is the mobo defective? Should I RMA either?

Is it possible that I could have been experiencing data corruption due to these temp issues, or do CPUs have ECC built in to prevent that?

In any case, I'm pretty bummed.

Ideas?

Thanks!

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Stock cooler ? I'm betting one (or more) of the mounting / retainer posts is loose.

Recommend grabbing some new TIM, cleaning CPU and cooler of now dried up TIM and reinstalling cooler w/ new TIM.

Superb TIM and great price ... slightly better than AS5 thermally but w/o AS5's capacitance and curing problems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA45H22W1965

 

[littleleo]

Sounds like you cooler isn't making good contact with the CPU. Check and see all the post are secure and the heat sink is making good contact with the CPU.