i5-8600K with Dark Rock Pro 3 HOT?! (Overheating, need help!)

[pineapplenotonpizza]

For some reason, my Dark Rock Pro 3 isn't cooling my i5-8600k. I've applied 3 different types of pastes, re-seated it over TEN TIMES, made sure the sticker was off, I applied a pea in the middle method, not too much and not too little.. and yet here I am at idle (3.6GHz) @70'C. When I overclock to 4.5GHz, my BIOS reports 95-100'C temps.. But when I feel my cooler, it feels like pure cold metal. I feel around the CPU on the mobo, cool. I feel the heat pipes, cool. I feel the vapor chamber ontop of the cpu, cool...... I am baffled at what is causing this. My cpu was thermal throttling down to 0.5GHz, I don't know what's rock. I know it is seated correctly, but my friends think it might not be making contact? But I know it is because the thermal paste is mushed down perfectly. I really don't know what to say or do at this point. Here's my specs:

i5-8600K
ASRock Z370 Extreme 4
G.Skill Trident Z 4000MHz
650w G-Series Seasonic PSU
Meshify C White Case
GTX 960 4GB
Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler

I really don't know the issue.. Is it a bad sensor? Or could it actually not be cooling it? I left it alone (and off) for the whole night, and in the morning when I turned it on, I checked the BIOS temp as fast as I could and it said 70'C. There's no possible way to can go from ambient room temp to 70'C in under 10 seconds. Please help me!

 

[robax91]

Is your bios overclocking all cores or just boosting a few? Check the bios for the voltages, set them to auto (to check them) and try running it at the max turbo with slightly less voltage.

It could be a bad chip (too big of gap for IHS/bad TIM) unlikely but delidding would fix this.

Maybe the program you are using is giving false readings. When you have more than one program reading temps they can misreport. I would shut them all off and get a simple program to check temps. I personally use RealTemp. HWMonitor is pretty good too.

 

[jankerson]

Sounds like it's not mounted correctly.

 

[pineapplenotonpizza]

Is your bios overclocking all cores or just boosting a few? Check the bios for the voltages, set them to auto (to check them) and try running it at the max turbo with slightly less voltage.

It could be a bad chip (too big of gap for IHS/bad TIM) unlikely but delidding would fix this.

Maybe the program you are using is giving false readings. When you have more than one program reading temps they can misreport. I would shut them all off and get a simple program to check temps. I personally use RealTemp. HWMonitor is pretty good too.

At stock and default settings, it hung around 50'C. I am OC'd on all cores to 4.5GHz. My voltage had a yellow indicator on it, I think somewhere between 1.1-1.3V. HWMonitor reports it as 1.312V, max at 1.328V.

 

[pineapplenotonpizza]

Sounds like it's not mounted correctly.

I just cannot fathom how. I had to reseat it multiple times because the screws kept having problems, but I know it is mounted correctly.

EDIT: HWMonitor says that 'TMPIN' 3 and 5 are hot, but 5 is cool. Package Watts hang around 25-26W. IA Core is around 22W.

 

[jankerson]

Sounds like it's not mounted correctly.

I just cannot fathom how. I had to reseat it multiple times because the screws kept having problems, but I know it is mounted correctly.

EDIT: HWMonitor says that 'TMPIN' 3 and 5 are hot, but 5 is cool.

Like I said, sounds like there is a problem with the mounting.