Ok, it certainly appears to be the stock HSF.
I do not know what thermal paste you used nor do I know how you applied it.
However, I can say that with properly applied quality TIM, and a stock running CPU, there should be no reason for the stock HSF to allow temps as high as 68c. It seems to me that you either used a very poor quality TIM, or it was applied improperly, or perhaps the HSF is not properly mounted, or maybe all three.
If you want to try another HSF, the CM 212, is inexpensive and should perform very well on that stock clocked CPU.
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It may have been low quality paste, I am not sure about that. Though it was applied in the right fashion. Perhaps it is mounted improperly but I doubt. Maybe it could be down to my case not being well ventilated.
However hopefully that fan would sort the problem no matter what? Are you positive it will fit? More so that it has a mount which has the right screw placements? Curious on how it even mounts to begin with.
Thank you very much for your input, it's greatly appreciated.
P.S Sorry for the noob questions.
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