Core i7 2600k issues

[idata]

Hi I am new to the communities and this is my first post so please excuse any unintended mistakes.

Yesterday i purchased a core i7 2600k. After installing i find the temperatures to be too high at stock clocks. To be exact I am getting these temps:

idle: 37-40 C

load: 74-76 C (prime 95 blend test)

I havent tried overclocking & everything is at stock. (CPU voltage is 1.18). My motherboard is the MSI-P67A GD-55 running the latest bios. I have 2x 4GB Corsair XMS 3 DDR3 kit running at XMP 1600- CL9 speeds.

I built this system to take advantage of the wondeful headroom in SNB CPUs & I am quite disappointed by seeing the temps. I am afraid to overclock now after seeing the stock results.

I am using a SPIRE Thermax Eclipse II 5 Heat Pipes Tower cooler with two 2200 RPM Cooler Master Fans in push-pull configuration. The TIM is the default one supplied with the SPIRE cooler.

My case is the Cooler Master Elite 310 with two case fans.

In my previous build using the same cooler my i5 750 never exceeded 55C at 3.6GHZ on prime 95.

Have I got a bum chip or what?

[Adolfo_S_Intel2]

Try running the processor on a 2nd motherboard, if possible, to see if it has the same behavior, also make sure that the temperature reading is the CPU temperature and not the cores temperature.

The maximum recommended CPU temperature for this processor is 72.6 degrees Celsius as showing at:

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214&code=Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+i7-2600K+Processor+(8M+Cache%2c+3.40+GHz) http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214&code=Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+i7-2600K+Processor+(8M+Cache%2c+3.40+GHz)

If the processor has the same behavior on 2nd motherboard, then I would suggest contacting our local support center at:

http://www.intel.com/support/9089.htm http://www.intel.com/support/9089.htm

[idata]

I dont have the option of testing the processor on another board. I have almost enough experience building PC's that I am pretty much sure my processor is faulty. Moreover the processor fails the Intel Diagnostic Test. Now I have to worry about getting a replacement from the retailer.