Core 2 Quad: Rugged!

[MyndFyre]

I've got a Q6600 - and let me tell you, it's rugged.

I had something go wrong with my last PC in which the Core 2 Quad was installed.  Thinking the motherboard at itself (based on the fact that the mobo was overheating when it died), I bought a new one.  It's beautiful; nForce 790i chipset, three PCIe 2.0 x16, and a 2000MHz DDR3 memory standard.

So I haven't been able to figure out just yet how to get the new case's power button to talk to the motherboard.  Everything appears to be connected right, but I apparently am green-green colorblind.  Whatever, I just wanted to make sure that the power was OK.  There's a power button directly on the motherboard (handy!) so I pushed it.  It came on.

Sadly it looks like it's my video card that's the problem

Anyway, go into the BIOS, look through settings.  Pretty awesome for overclocking.  Go into the system status window....

I must not have my heat sink seated correctly.  Current CPU temperature: 102 C.

Hard power off!

Damnit....

[Newby]

That's pretty intense...

[Ergot]

Fuck heatsinks, just boil a pot of water with that cpu.

[Blaze]

102c?  Sounds like my video cards playing Crysis on Very High. 

Yeah, something isn't right there.  I'd give you some lame noob advice about reseating it, but I'm sure you know what you're doing.   

[Skywing]

Only slightly slower clockspeed and vastly more cache, I am happy with: Xeon E5410's. (slightly more expensive).

Probably for a different purpose than what you're going to be using that Core 2 Quad for, though :)