Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
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.
Stock multiplier and vCore.


Overclocked to 3.8 Ghz. vCore upped to 1.5375V. Today's the room heating is maxxed up, so it actually climbed to 50C tops, which is still WAY under what you report and entirely on the safe side.


Coincidentally, I have a scythe mugen 2 too. Faulty processors don't necessarily crash, some just heat up way too much. It may also be a case of badly applied thermal paste (or a very bad thermal paste I guess).