P5B overheating issues

[Raider1284]

I recently got a e6400 motherboard and its at 50c idle and hits 60 under load! I tried reinstalling the heatsink as well and applly artic silver 5. It didnt lower my temps at all pretty much, maybe a couple of degrees. I thought the stock cooler on these things were alrigh and would hold it around 30C at stock speeds, im at 50C at stock speeds! Any ideas?

Raider

 

[Slochy]

Those temps are absolutely okay, no need to worry there. It's the same here using a Scythe Mine cooler, temps seem to differ across the chips.

 

[BOLt]

Dual cores tend to run hot. Even the 65nm chips from Intel. My AMD64 X2 3800+ runs at 50C idle where my opteron 144 used to run at ~40C idle. Keep in mind that dual cores aren't strained as much as single cores, so hitting full load temps will be much harder too. Basically, dual cores range of temps starts higher but the range is shorter. Single cores start lower but the range of temps between idle and load is larger.

I'm just thinking out loud...

 

[myocardia]

It sounds like you got one of the famous concave IHS's*.






*IHS=Integrated Heat Sink, or the piece of aluminum covering your processor's cores.