P4 2.4c... is it overheating?

[Supermercado]

Within the last week or so, I got a P4 2.4c and Abit IC7 motherboard. Put everything together and it runs just fine. Hadn't been monitoring temperatures until yesterday. I was playing Vice City (and had been playing for the better part of the day, so the machine got a pretty good workout) and the game started to stutter and freeze for about 10 seconds or so (PowerColor Radeon 9700 is the video card). After that, I installed SpeedFan to check on my temperatures. After having that for a few hours, it seems that my cpu is idling at 50c and getting up to 64-65 under load. I've read that the Abit boards report high temperatures, but I'm still worried that something is wrong somewhere... Up until yesterday, I hadn't had any problems with stuttering or freezing and I've only noticed it in Vice City so far. This is using the retail heatsink and fan.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong? I'm only guessing that something's not quite right with the cpu temperature. The other two readings are just fine, I think: 41 and 35 right now. CPU exactly at 50. I'd rather not spend the money on a heatsink, but if it will help, I'll get a new fan and I already halfway intend to remove the standard thermal heatpad on the heatsink and use Arctic Silver instead.

 

[wicktron]

Abit motherboards are notorious for overtemping.
That being said, just to make sure, try to reseat the HSF onto the CPU, I've seen it lock down before where it didn't have good contact on the CPU.

 

[sman789]

mine idles at 44-47, i have the same stuff as you but i have a 9600pro

but my case has 2 intake, 1 side exhaust, 1 back exhaust fans

 

[sman789]

use winbond to check temps....mine after prime95 is 63-64