i5 overheating

[tleilax]

Hello,

I have Intel Core i5 750 (not overclocked) running at 3.2GHz.
I have swapped the default cooler with Scythe Ninja, which is being cooled by Nexus Cooler. There are also 2 other 120mm coolers in my middletower case.
Motherboard is EVGA P55. Graphics is MSI HD5850 TwinFrozr.

My problem is that the CPU temperature goes up to 95°C (200F) while gaming (Splinter Cell: Conviction, even Sims 3 ), which is really high. Graphics goes up to 60°C (140F), that's fine. I measured the CPU temperature in Core Temp software.

Any ideas what might be wrong? I don't believe this is normal temperature state.

PS: Sorry for my bad english.

 

[Abstract Hero]

Ya those aren't good you really want to stay below 80
It would be my first guess that you need to re-seat the cooler with some new heat paste.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Ditto. The heatsink could be not contacting with the CPU. Could be too much grease.

 

[PP Mguire]

To much grease, or to much pressure (not sure how the ninja is mounted).

Also, that is not stock. 133 @ 20 is 2.66 which is stock.

 

[MindoverMaster]

I had something similar to the Ninja. It worked fine. No glitches.

 

[Abstract Hero]

To much grease, or to much pressure (not sure how the ninja is mounted).

Also, that is not stock. 133 @ 20 is 2.66 which is stock.

What about Turbo? With it on thats right.

But it shouldn't show a turbo clock on coretemp so NVM your right

 

[PP Mguire]

No, turbo raises the multi and not the bclk. His bclk is 160 and his multi is stock at 20. With turbo on my multi shows 21. Only thing i can think of would be XMP, but even then it lowers your multi to make up for the raised bclk.

 

[Slaymate]

I'm with the To Much Paste crowd.

 

[tleilax]

Thanks for your replies, today I bought new case (bigger one, aluminium) with more 120mm cooler mounts, so it should be better a bit. Also planning to remove the cooler, check heat pipes if they are not broken and apply new Noctua thermal paste.

For the CPU clocks - I've heard that WoW won't put the CPU into Turbo mode, so I disabled it. Maybe I've increased the clock a bit, will check it as well.

I will post later what I found.

 

[MindoverMaster]

The case should be the least of your problems. A warm case should not cause that high of temperature.