CPU issue need urgent help.

[aowen416]

I built my computer about two weeks ago. The mobo was busted so i switched the porccesor to a diff mobo without changing the heatsink. Its an amd 3800 X2 and it runs about 66C why is it so hot?

 

[The Amish Kid]

It might be the thermal compound. Did you put new compound on when you switched motherboards?

 

[Kage]

so i switched the porccesor to a diff mobo without changing the heatsink. Its an amd 3800 X2 and it runs about 66C why is it so hot?

Yeah, if you didn't change the heatsink, I guess you wouldn't have wiped the thermal compound from the heatsink?

And anyway, yeah, why didn't you use the heatsink/fan that came with the 3800 X2?

It'd probably be alot cooler if you did so since it'll be built for the processor.