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    My Q9550 Temps - Too High?

    I checked and didn't see any.
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    Where to buy E0 stepping Q9550???

    My Q9550 from Newegg was delivered 2 days ago (Aug. 14). It was a C1.
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    My Q9550 Temps - Too High?

    I used paste supplied with the PC. Probably should have bought some Arctic Silver. I put a pea-sized glob in the middle of the CPU and spread it with my finger over the entire surface. Then tried to smooth it out with my finger, but wherever I touched seemed to pull the paste off, so there...
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    My Q9550 Temps - Too High?

    I just built my first PC with an Intel Q9550 (not over-clocked). I am concerned that I didn't apply the thermal paste to the CPU properly since I had never done that before. At idle, the BIOS says the CPU temp is 57C. Speedfan says it is 49C. Under heavy load while rendering...