High Idle Temps 2500k W/ N520

alpalpa

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Oct 28, 2011
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I am building my first computer, and have bought a CoolerMaster N520 for my 2500k system. At default 3.3 Ghz I am getting temperatures at around 47 C.
I used Artic Silver 5 (about a grain of rice in size)
Anyone know why this is happening?
 

4ghz

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Sep 11, 2010
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remount. When you take off the heatsink look at the spread of the paste. Is there good coverage? A grain of rice sounds a bit small. I usually use the size of a small pea.
 

alpalpa

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I remounted it and added a little more thermal compound. It idles at around 43 which is still a little high.