Almost an exact duplicate of my thread months ago.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2429025
After a lot of blood, sweat and tears it turned out it was one/more of the four clamps from the intel stock cooler was not going in all the way and the heatsink was not making physical contact with the cpu.
Yeah, it sounds to me as if
Shakabutt has the same problem that you had, except that I can pretty much guarantee you that you had two pins, most likely on the same side, that weren't fully seated, and he has only one that isn't. He has twice as many cores as you, and his CPU has HT, and he's still close to 10°C cooler than your 2 cores/no HT happens to be.
Still, 86c is a safe load temperature.
Agreed, but that's still extraordinarily high, to only be gaming. If he ever decides to either run Prime95 or run Handbrake for any reason, he will be near, if not over, 100°C.
When those plastic pin HSF retainers debuted many years ago, even I, the ever so dexterous, works-with-his-hands guy managed to bork a plastic pin on an install. It's worth a look to see if the pins are all in properly. All my builds using a stock HSF get installed before the motherboard goes into the chassis, so that the backside can be inspected for proper pin insertion.
My first experience with those pins was mounting a Scythe Ninja. I'm sure I would have made that same mistake, but after having read about other people's experiences with those pins, I made sure to press hard enough. I had to press so hard, that I had a bruise on the pad of my left thumb for a few days afterward. The first pad only took 20-25 pounds of pressure to fully seat, but each one took progressively more. The last one took at least 40, if not 45 or 50, pounds of force.*
*The Intel heatsinks don't take quite that much pressure to seat, but they take much, much more than anyone would ever guess, if they had never installed one.
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