Help! Overheating AMD CPU!

[aorodrig]

Had an Asus MB that crashed. Purchased a new gigabyte uATX as well as a new WD SATA HD. Reinstalled everything including my Athlon X2 4800. Using an artic cooler pro 64. I cleaned everything off appropriately, booted up, and watched my temp go from the 40s to the 60s....run any little program and it shuts down.

I have cleaned and cleaned and cleaned carefully. Reapplied thin small bb size amounts of paste (reviewed the www.arcticsilver.com article a thousand times). Still overheating. Even tried applying the stock AMD fan after cleaning, again overheating.

Not sure what to do next. Am running coretemp which is *near* the temp that the gigabyte software registers. It simply is not cooling. I have a good 500 W Antec PS. 2 case fans and a HDD fan in the front. MB runs cool at 30 to 32. Don't know where to go with this...any suggestions?

Prior to my old MB crashing the cpu was running great with the arctic cooler fan. I'm wondering if the preapplied paste it comes with made the difference and whether or not it's me. I've now reapplied and clean at least 10 times. I can't be that bad....

Appreciate anyone's help.

[Alfie]

Make sure heatsink is making good contact with cpu,check the voltage for the cpu.

[nut4crew]

I'm having a similar problem. I'm on my second cpu cooler. BIOS will idle at 31C, but I start to load my OS onto my hd, and the temp shoots up. I was told the motherboard may be reading the temp wrong. I've checked my voltages, updated bios, and am at the point where I'm thinking of returning the mobo. Anything else I should check?

[shadowpr]

Nut4crew, start your own thread. In it please list your computer specs.