I recently purchased a MB and CPU and once getting it installed and up and running, I have discovered that the CPU temp is reading in the mid 90s in BIOS and upper 90s to 100 on idle once booted. This is a used setup bought from a private owner. MB is asrock z97 pro4 and the processor installed is an i5-4690K. Cooler is a Corsair H60.
I have put my hand on the water block as well as the radiator and neither feel particularly hot at all. I removed the CPU cooler and have cleaned off the thermal material that was on there as it only appeared to be making contact in 2 spots along the edge of the CPU. I have ordered some new thermal paste and intend to apply it and reseat the cooler to see if that helps, but I figured I would check with you all and see if you thought there could be anything else.
I have not put an excess amount of load on it, but it is throttling pretty heavily. Oddly enough SpeedFan seems to detect the temp at much much lower, effectively normal, levels whereas ThrottleStop and other software detects all four cores running at about 96-99C almost all the time. I've known SpeedFan to be a little off at times, but never this much. Also, before you ask, there is no overclocking of any kind going on with this at the moment.
I have put my hand on the water block as well as the radiator and neither feel particularly hot at all. I removed the CPU cooler and have cleaned off the thermal material that was on there as it only appeared to be making contact in 2 spots along the edge of the CPU. I have ordered some new thermal paste and intend to apply it and reseat the cooler to see if that helps, but I figured I would check with you all and see if you thought there could be anything else.
I have not put an excess amount of load on it, but it is throttling pretty heavily. Oddly enough SpeedFan seems to detect the temp at much much lower, effectively normal, levels whereas ThrottleStop and other software detects all four cores running at about 96-99C almost all the time. I've known SpeedFan to be a little off at times, but never this much. Also, before you ask, there is no overclocking of any kind going on with this at the moment.