Just a little follow up. After some days the temperatures settled in the range of 59 idle and 74 load. I have tried to reset the cooler sometimes using the MX-2 compound from Arctic Cooling and the temperatures remain basically the same (actually one or two degree less). After paying attention to th...

Unseat the heatsink and check the footprint made by the thermal compound. Check that each push-pin is engaged properly. I will have to buy some more thermal paste to do it, so ti may take some days. Anyhow I have just found that now, almost 24hs after installing the heatsink the picture is differen...

Hello, I have just installed an Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 cooler on a system with a Core 2 E6600. My idle temperatures seems very high, 60C. The fan is running really slow (600 RPM I think). Under load with CPU burn goes up to 79C and then goes back down to 71C when the motherboard makes the fan run f...

Hello, I am thinking about changing the cooler in my home computer. It is a Core 2 Duo E6600 machine and it still has the stock cooler. It has a simple passive graphics card (nvidia 7200gs) and two 8' fans in the case from a no brand name. Due to budget constraints I am planning buying an Arctic Coo...