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New Build CPU Temperature Issues

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I recently built my first PC, CPU being an i7 6700k and using a corsair H100i RGB cpu cooler, after a few days I've had a few issues with my cpu temperature being stupidly high (sitting around 50c idle after being booted a while). However I've realised through this that my pump is remaining cool no matter what (never going above 30c even while gaming) - I'm wondering if people think this is a mounting/pasting issue (user error while mounting) or if my cpu itself could be faulty? any help is appreciated as stated before this is my first build.

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Not the CPU. You could either have uneven mounting pressure or uneven paste, or some other bizarre issue. I'm not gonna comment on the paste in fear of a chain of angry commenters saying I'm wrong, but you could have definitely not put your CPU block on tight enough. It is possible to go too tight, but take a screwdriver and slowly screw down in an X-pattern (i.e. top right > bottom left > top left > bottom right) until you have to put extra force to turn the screw. Basically don't fight the screw and keeping drilling it down, when the screw starts fighting back you stop. 

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