Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
My 965 BE runs at 45C under full load with a quite cheap Schythe cooler while overclocked at 3.8 ghz with the vcore upped at 1.5375V. On idle it sits cutely at 29.5C.

There's a reason why the 965BE is still one of the most loved processors between overclockers. It runs pretty cool and it's one of the most durable chips ever made by AMD.

If not overclocked it will run without a hitch for years even with the stock cooler, that, by the way, is *very* good.

I'm sorry, but your temperatures are way over spec, and you probably should have returned it as soon as you noticed they were that high.
When I first saw the temps, I searched the net and everyone was reporting similar temps. ~45°C idle, ~60°C full load. Searching now, the results are still the same.

Besides, if it was faulty, then I'd get errors on Prime95 or crashes. Here's an example 5m run with OCCT, could you maybe humor me and do the same? I'm using a scythe mugen2 btw.