Originally Posted by uncletank88
I suggest you take off the heatsink and reapply the thermalpaste to see if reseating helps. Also, make sure your case fans are clean because that may also be a cause of increasing temperatures over time.
Well I did that and it seems the pins are broken as I suspected...
Upon reseating it, I found that one of the plastic 'prongs' on the bottom was kinda bent outwards... It was very hard to get it back into place as whenever I pushed one it, another one popped out.
So I suppose a new cooler is necessary?
Originally Posted by wangerin
Get an inexpensive aftermarket cooler w/ heatpipes.
Thermalright or Sycthe would work pretty well.
Something inexpensive like this would work well. Not sure about availability in NZ
The only thing I'm worried about there is the size in my relatively small Antec Solo case...