nope, still overheating. i have fans cooling the socket from the rear, i have fans cooling the VRMs. nothings working. its a shame because it never used to do this, no hardware changes except the cooler to try and remedy this. im thinking maybe my cpu is dying. if it is then i seen ryzen on the horizon (no pun intended).
that being said, this cpu has been really good for me in terms of performance so i will be sad to see it go.
Anyway, thank you for all your help people.
Dave