Take off your heatsink and check the thermal paste. The heatsink you link is pretty decent so your idle temps are a bit high.

After lapping the True, my temp actually went up, running Linpack the temp climbed to 90 C. Scratching my head, I took the heatsink out and peeked underneath. Found out by looking at the thermal paste imprint that the Q9550 was not flat, as a matter of fact both sides were raised with an indentation in the middle. After lapping the CPU, my temp were at an all time low. Idling at 36; prime at 60; Linpack at 66 max.


Quote Originally Posted by freeza View Post
I see a lot of you guys are pushing your Q9550/Q9650's to 4GHz and beyond.

I currently have a Q9550 OC'd to 3.7 GHz and my temps are as follows: (idle)

48
47
50
50

Using this heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835186134

Room temps are about 86F since it's the summer. Question is, with these temps and my room temps, should i bother OC'ing more?

Also, how are you guys pasting your BIOS settings like that?

Thanks in advance.