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Old 04-08-2010, 02:42 AM   #11
striderblade
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71c is too high for a idle temp. Get a better heat sink it'll help you drop the temp a lot better and make sure you apply those thermal paste. Best effective way to apply them is draw a "X" shape on top of the cpu before you apply the heat sink.

As for CorneringArtist, check if your heatsink is mounted properly, your temp should be around 42c ish for that cpu on idle. Also see if you both can boot into bios and check the temp reading there.
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