Over Heating Issue Please Help

[jhouse0386]

okay so first my rig.



Mainboard : Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3
Chipset : Intel Z68
Processor : Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3400MHz
Physical Memory : 8192MB (4 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Hard Disk : Western Digital WD10EADS-00L5B1 ATA Device (1000GB)
Hard Disk : Western Digital WD10EARX-00N0YB0 ATA Device (1000GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3650A
Monitor Type : Acer X223W - 22 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (64-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00





I have not overclocked at all.



In the bios on boot up it says it is 87 degrees.



In windows idle it is 45-50celsius



Prime 95 full load it gets up to 98 celsius.



While playing BF3 it gets up to 90-95 celsius.



What is the issue? It is a brand new CPU.



Local computer hardware store owner told me that it sounds like i got a bad CPU that something like thermal paste even if i had absolutely none on there would only make about a 5 degree difference. He was convinced that newegg sold me a recall they sell as new. IDK. Maybe that was just his way of trying to get me to buy from him. I want to know what the issue is and what ways I can go about fixing it. From what I have read around the web I shouldnt be above 80 celsius even on a full load via prime95.



btw I have stock cooling and w/e thermal paste it had on it when it came out of the box. I still dont believe intel stock stuff would be this bad cooling wise. Any ideas anyone?

 

[InvalidError]

Yep, the stock HSF is barely adequate and hard to get installed just right. The 212+ will almost certainly fix it I think, as long as you install it right. It's really not THAT difficult, it's just kind of cumbersome.

I re-installed my 212+ to switch it from horizontal to vertical and one thing I noticed is that the pin that nests into a notch on the clip to limit twisting complicates things a little when fitting the HSF inside an existing system when you cannot see it and might forget about it. That's one more small detail to pay attention to for people to get it right without trying their patience too much.

 

[InvalidError]

I ordered the plus its 15 bucks cheaper and a tube of thermal paste.

The 212+ has a small tube of CM mystery goo included with it.

 

[jhouse0386]

eh the thermal paste was only 10 bucks and it would be good to have some around you know?

 

[Mad Hatter 42]

I got his same problem but NO ONE is able to help me, lol. I dunno if this forum helps users by issues or by sympathy.

 

[jhouse0386]

yeah I dont get it either dude. right out of the box shoulda been good to go. We will see if this new monster HSF does the trick. If not im gonna guess the CPU newegg sent me was faulty and send it back for a new one. Computers can be money pits some times man lol.

 

[InvalidError]

yeah I dont get it either dude. right out of the box shoulda been good to go.

The stock HSF works out-of-the-box when installed correctly. The problem is it takes very little to make it go wrong and there is not necessarily any obvious visual signs that the heatsink is not properly seated since it takes only a few hundred microns of misalignment, debris or anything else that might interfere with proper mounting to mess it up. The stock HSF may be simple but there is at least a dozen of ways for it to go wrong if you miss a tiny detail somewhere such as some fins from the pins themselves to the heatsink possibly jamming/biting into the frame's plastic and preventing the heatsink from sitting perfectly flush against the CPU's heat-spreader.

The stock HSF works fine for a few years but you need to be very meticulous about every detail of its installation is executed perfectly to get remotely decent performance out of it because the whole thing does not lend itself too well to second chances.

The 212+ is more troublesome to install but on the plus side, it is also nearly impossible to "successfully" incorrectly install since you won't be able to put all screws in normally without applying ridiculous amounts of force or bending the clip if holes and pins on the clip are not correctly lined up with the aluminum block's... the feedback about something gone wrong with the install is a lot more obvious.

 

[jhouse0386]

yeah the tool tip i let install the original HSF put a sensor in there too much to the point wires were inbetween the HSF and the CPU. probably the cause of the massive overheating. I installed the 212 + and my idle temps went from 50-55 to 27-30 and my full load prime95 temps went from 95-98 to 49-52.

when installing the HSF I took out all my memory now I cant get all 4 sticks working again.

4 2 3 1 is how the slots are configured left to right on my board.

+ - - - works (all 4 sticks individually too)
+ + - - works
+ + + doesnt work
+ + + + doesnt work
+ - + - doesnt work
+ - - + doesnt work
- + - - works
- - + - doesnt work
- - -+ doesnt work
- + + - doesnt work
- + - + doesnt work
- - + + doesnt work
+ + + + originally worked until I removed it all

any idea how to get all 4 working again?

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Well, the problem seems to be the 3 and 1 slots, so I think we can narrow it down from there, but I have no idea why just those two slots would just suddenly stop working like that. Just taking out and re-installing the RAM would be a very improbable thing to kill the slots.