Serious Heat Problem! Help?

Thank you so much for all of your help. I am definitely gonna look in to one of the heatsinks you reccomended and try out a little research on some other great ones. It's just astonishing to me that the heatsink would be that vital. Honestly, am I expecting a huge drop in temp? I really hope so. This 58c crap is getting me down. I only turn this thing on to look at e-mail, write here in afterdawn, and then I turn it off just to be safe and bore myself to death.

Man, it was bound that mistakes and issues would arise from customizing my first PC to get a taste of it and learn, but what a stupid overlook I did with the heatsink. I guess that's how it goes, huh? Learn with mistakes.

I'm gonna get a new heatsink as soon as cash is in my hand and then I will repost to this thread the results, and I'm hoping they're good. I want to play COD4 without being afraid I'm so close yet so far lol.

Again, thanks so much, you and the mod who have been posting here have GREATLY helped me.

 

if you get a proper heatsink, you should see a drop into the 30s. 6400+ do run hot, though.

 

I was looking at reccomendations another user stated about a heatsink, and accidently, I came across this: http://www.xoxide.com/kingwin-gladiator-silver.html

Does that look decent? It's a water-cooled heatsink without even needing a water-cooling system.

I also read up on this Zalman fan: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118118 and read in the reviews it even got someones temp down 20 degrees, and another down 15.

I am debating which one to get when I get money on Friday, but I'm hoping you, or maybe someone else here who see's this post can reccomend me one of these or had any prior experience with them? Thanks.

 

Bought a KINGWIN Revolution RVT Heatsink. It's half copper and aluminum. Newegg was having a deal on it and thought I'd read on it.

In reveiws, someone actually stated their temps dropped in an old Dell case by nearly 20 degrees and they had the same processor as me, so I saw that personally as my best piece of proof for a good heatsink for my situation.

I was averaging temps around 58-61c with the default heatsink... and after installing this thing(Which was so hard by the way! God damn fat fingers and giant heatsink!), my temperature was averaging around 43-47c. I typically stay within a 15 degree drop, and when I play Call of Duty 4, the temp raises to around 51c, and on occasion raises as high as 54c. Is that okay and expected?

After reading reveiws on thermal compounds, I found that Arctic Silver 5 had some competition with a newer brand most claim is now better and/or just as good, and it was called Tuniq TX-2. By chance, this compound came as a combo with the heatsink for only an extra 3 bucks, so I went for it and used it. It was definitely thicker than the Belkin crap I used and was generally less expensive, and seems to work well, though without trying other compounds, I can't say if it really is better, but i'm happy either way.

Right at this second as I look at my temp at idle, it says 44c before jumping to 46c, then going back down, and then up again to 45c. Seems to have a lot of fluctuation. Now, is this considered a good temp? Am I still in any danger?

Thanks for all the help, everyone. It only cost me a total of 32 bucks to get my PC cooler.

PS: When the case door is off, it is 35c, and when I installed the heatsink and checked my temp with the door off, my damn mouth dropped. Is this a sign that maybe I could use a new case in the future with better ventilation?