Pentium D Too Hot at 75C

[owensdj]

I built a new computer with a 3.0GHz Pentium D 930 processor, Asus P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard, and Antec Performance One P150 case(420W power). The BIOS says my CPU temp is 75C. That's way too high. I'm not doing any overclocking. Any ideas on what's wrong?

 

[avi85]

Did you mount your heatsink correctly?

 

[owensdj]

avi85, thanks for the reply. I think so. I did have a *lot* of problems getting the 4 sides to click into the motherboard correctly. This is the first time I've worked with the new heatsink/fan retention. Should I try taking off the heatsink-fan and re-doing it? If I do that, do I have to reapply any thermal compound? I have some left over from a Socket 478 heatsink-fan kit.

 

[avi85]

well first of all touch the heatsink when it says 75, if it feels real hot then i think that means that its conducting the heat well and the problem could be somewhere else (like the fan or something)

If it feels cool it could be either that the sensor is wrong or that the thermal grease is not applied correctly and therefore it's not channeling away the heat, if that's the case then maybe you should reapply the thermal grease

btw I'm no expert, just throwing in my 2 cents.