System stopping

[mikeycollins]

Hello, I used to build systems quite often but I haven't done so for 10 years and I am a bit unfamiliar with modern hardware.

I am putting a system together. It consists of an Asrock mobo and INTEL Q6600 CPU. I am using an old Dell heatsink and fan whilst I await delivery of a new fan. I can't attach the heatsink to the mobo and have applied no thermal paste. The system turns on fine but after 2 minutes it shuts down. It will not restart for a few minutes and then does the same thing. Could the cpu overheat that quickly and is shutting down the main symptom?

 

[americanbrian]

YES! you are blatantly overheating the CPU. you have not attached the heatsink with any pressure and the lack of thermal paste means there are likely pockets of air that are further insulating the cores.

That Q6600 has 4 cores. and a TDP of 95W (assuming its a G0 stepping, if not than its higher).

My advice. Wait for your fan to arrive.

 

[Proximon]

*shudder*