E6600 overheating...

[jamiesalter]

Built a new system around the Christmas period and recently (yesterday) I decided to do some overclocking, but on checking the temperatures at idle with no overclock i have temperatures of 46C and upto 58C on stress from Intel's TAT. I have checked the temperature with Core Temp as well.

See my system specs, but I have a Noctua U12F and two other Noctua 120mm blowing air in and out. The case is the akasa mirage (which is a good cooler). So why the hell am i getting such high temperatures at 2.4GHz? I just reseated the CPU cooler and removed some paste (thinking that i could have had too much) but this only brought the temp down by around a degree

Any suggestions? Have any of you guys had this problem?

Jamie

[Clunk]

When you removed the paste...did you completely clean all the old stuff off and reapply new?

[jamiesalter]

Nah, I removed the cooler, cleaned all the paste off the bottom of it, then placed it back down on the CPU which still had paste on.

[Clunk]

That wont work, you need to clean and reapply new.