Ya, 1 & 2 I agree with. The problem is you might be forced to do one of the two. You might have the voltage to your CPU being too high for what you need also.


But 60C idle is NOT Normal. At least with my Q6600 the maximum recommended (correct me if I am wrong anybody) temperature from the intel site is 71C....With 70+ under load you have a cooling problem definitely that could damage hardware.

If all else fails look into a

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...08,1779-8.html

The folks over at Toms Hardware LOVED this one. It was horrible to install but the air cooling was magnificent. 62.5C max load max temp with a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0ghz stock.

If you look at that article too you notice ALOT of posers. Some of these big bad 120mm fan rigs run 15-25C+ over the cooler I mentioned.



If you think its power and dont care about your heat shutoff settings change those in your BIOS to something higher and test out boxing again?