MORE COU Problems!!!

OK, so some of you might remember that I've been having CPU problems lately.

First, it was overheating and causing my PC to crash. Then I'd have to wait for it to cool down before I could turn it on again. So I decided to get a new CPU.

The new CPU worked at first and then it didn't work. So, I put the old one back in thinking the new one was broken. All of a sudden the old one was working great with no overheating problem.

So then I decided to have another crack at putting the one in and asked here at MajorGeeks for advice before taking up the challenge. As was suggested by studiot, I lowered the voltage via the BIOS screen. It's actually taken me until now (what was it, 3 weeks? 4?) to "get around" to doing it.

So the install went well, the PC works with the new CPU as hoped but now the damn Temp readings are through the roof which was the initial problem with the old CPU! Core Temp reads at a consistant average of 75C while IDLE. And I even went and got a decent Cooler. It was keeping the old CPU down to around 27C on average.

So I was hoping someone would have some ideas of what I can do to fix this problem. Just to remind you of my system specs:

Gigabyte GA-946GMX-S2 mobo
Asus Nvidia EN8600GT 512MB
2x2G A-DATA DDR2 800 RAM
Cooler Master Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 LGA775
WD 80G HDD
Windows XP Pro
WD 160G Slave HDD
P4-400W Power Supply (not sure what brand. It has a blue "K" on it though)

I also have a program called EasyTune 5 from Gigabyte which might be the problem since the PC does these wierd things when I touch that program

 

OK Update, I noticed the cooler looked a bit lop sided and discovered that one of the pins had come out of the mobo socket. I reseated the cooler and the temps now run at an average 43C. I still think it should be lower than this with the cooler on it though especially since the old E4500 was running under 30C.

 

Actually, from what I have been able to find out about the E7200, you have no problems, concerning temps. The idle temp is usually around 40 to 43c and a max temp of around 75c. The Intel site was NO help at all, so I Googled 'max temps for Intel E7200' and got the info from there. I'd advise you to do the same and that way you may be able to find other sources to help.

 

Actually, I did find figures of similar results when I googled also. I did think that with this aftermarket cooler I should be getting better figures. I assumed that those temps were measure with the stock standard cooling unit supplied with the retail box and that the this one should keep it a lot cooler. Especially since this was true with the old E4500.

But hey, as long as it's not overheating I'm happy

 

Here is a comparison of the E4500 and the E7200. It appears that your E7200 is working harder (higher clock speed, etc.) than your E4500 was and that may be the reason for the somewhat higher temps between the two. http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA95 and http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAPC