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.  :D

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 :)