XDRM

Ok i just reaplied thermal paste on my cpu put on the cooler and sudenly my temps where higher!I did it 3 times in a row and no good!after searching of what may be wrong and an advise of a member in here i found out that the cooler does not make good contact with my cpu!before everything was ok now something happend and i cant figure out what it is!!!!nothing is in the way of the cooler so it should make good contact!after removing it i cleaned it with alcoohol all around just to take away the dust and to look shiny!can alcoohol damage the cooler???????And did someone had the same problem with this cooler??or is that maybe my cpu is dying?

spaceballsrules

Don't panic!
It might be your thermal paste. If you are using AS5 or similar, there is a burn-in time in which the paste dries out. As it dries, it becomes more effective.
You might also be using too much paste. This will actually insulate the heat rather than than transfer it to the heatsink as it should.
The NV-120 is an excellent cooler and has plenty of pressure on AM2 sockets. It's not the cooler. If you want more pressure, give the retention bracket a very, very gentle bend.
Just try a small dab in the middle of the CPU, about the size of an uncooked grain of rice, and put the cooler on it evenly and attach the clips.
BTW If you want the best pastes with minimal or no burn-in time and the best temps, go with OCZ Freeze or IC Diamond.

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Has your ambient temperature also increased? (Very likely if you live in the northern hemisphere, as summer is upon us.) This is one factor hardly anyone mentions when talking about increased PC temperatures.

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XDRM

i am using zalmans zm-stg1 thermal paste and i dont thing i have put too much of it!i put just a thin layer on the chip and on the cooler as i always do!!!!before my temps where at 43-42 idle oced as my signature but now i am running at 49-50 non oced !we are talking on the same day!As summer is here i just wanted to put a new layer on my chip just to bee safe!!!i made one mistake thow.......before i took my cpu out of the mobo i forgot to set everything back to normal in bios and in my first attempt i saw a 83c temp and bios saying cpu changed!!!!!!!Or my cpu is dying after my mistake or my mobo sensor is damaged :P!!!!!one more thing is that with stock cooler temps are 46-47 and with this massive cooler they are higher something is wrong here!!!!I tried 4 times now reaplied paste put CARFULLY the cooler on and nothing........!!!!!

ambient temps are 25-28 in my room!!!

sLowEnd

You don't need TIM on both the cooler and the CPU
Just apply it to one.

Btw, speaking of ambient temps, how much higher are your temps after reseating? It could just be that summer is warmer.

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XDRM

oced idle where 40-42c and 20 minutes later non oced 49-50 and as write now 55c just idle!another thing is just run orthos and stoped at 4 ms on core0 saying hardware error(!!!!i thing i damaged my cpu)!!!!!!!

Lord Xeb

Yes, do what Space said. I have used IC7 and it is freaking win! I saw a 5C drop in temps compared to AS5

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XDRM

i just cant undastand it 10c difference is alot after reseating!i have tried everything by now!!!!!!!can a damaged core run hotter than normal?????i just ordered ocz freeze couldnt find ic diamont and with that the new phenom II 550 and a new set o rams(i wanted an upgrade and this just gave me the reason to do it)))

XDRM

Advise needed!!!!i have done everything in the book and my temps keep rising now they idle at 60-65c and i had to downclock the cpu to 1000 just to get them to 38-39c!all this with the zerotherm installed on top!!!!!so is my cpu dying after all what do you thing?i have never before experienced a dying cpu thats why ask!!!!!

sLowEnd

Temps keep rising?

I think you broke a heatpipe.

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