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Core 2 Duo E6400 OC'ed to 2.67ghz idling at 73C??
Hello. I just upgraded my (i prety much fixed up a new rig) gaming machine and have enjoyed it very much so far. I've been dealing with various issues (the latests of which happened to be a faulty graphics card) and now my newest issue seems to be with my processor.
Crysis crashes on me and after much thought I finally downloaded speedfan and checked out my CPU temp. I"m not exactly sure how to read the info but it says that core0 and core1 are idling at ~72C. In games it goes up to around 80C!! crysis regularly crashes and FPS frequently drop particullary during noised induced by object interation.
Stock the CPU runs at 2.13Ghz so OC'ing to 2.67 shouldn't be that bad should it? also i've got a third party heatsink and fan on it so it definately should be that high right?
If i'm right then what can i do to resolve this issue? does the thermal compound make that much difference? i clumsily installed the heatsink and fan so many the compound got unevenly spread? If need be... i'll get a new processor and use this on another mobo i've got laying around, but it doesn't seem right that my CPU is registerying those kinds of temperatures. Please help!