I am curious as to the temperatures of other similar processors because I've ALWAYS had an issue with mine running hot. If anyone has a similar-spec processor, could you please post your idle and load temps?

Mine idles around 45°C and gets up to 60° on full load.

This is WITH this cooler, in a room where the temperature is around 22-23°C.

The max temperature as per the AMD website says "55-63°C." So I'm right up there at the edge.

My Opti

Default Speed: 2.4Ghz --------> Mine: 3.0Ghz
Default Vcore: 1.35v -------> Mine: 1.54v

Temps

Idle: 30-35 ºC depending on the temperature of the room
Full load: 54/55 ºC
Playing LFS : 42/45ºC

Cooler

Thermalright XP90C + Vantec Tornado (at ~2300rpm)

You are right, going over 60º with this kind of cpus is not a good idea. What about your case cooling?

Replaced the 2 120mm and two 80mm with high-velocity fans. Did not budge temperatures. Even added another 120mm fan where three 5.25" bays would be to no avail. But I think it's just a faulty mobo sensor at this point.

If it's permanent on 60° under full load then it's def. to hot.

Did you used Thermal compound?
If yes the maybe it's attached too thick?

I often see things like that when getting PCs to fix
or that the thermal compound is almost gone
or like "bubble gum" (dunno how to say that)
because of to much heat.

60 degrees under 50% load!

I applied a "grain of rice" sized amount and spread it evenly across the cpu with some plastic stretched around my finger. It's a layer just thick enough to not be able to see the metal underneath. I've done it three times following online manuals and I'm convinced it's not me. It's AS5 btw.

I have always heard and read that you have to put just a little of thermal grease... but you know what? According to my experience, the more, the better

I use MX-1 BTW, AS5 is very goood though.

You can measure temps with a probe and contrast results with the mobo sensors

Well, I don't think I really need to use a probe. If I feel the heat pipes at the very base near the processor, they are only just warm. They definitely don't feel anywhere close to 60 - which I believe is hot enough to burn you.

Bad contact with the IHS or the heatsink itself (doubt it if you did 3 remounts). Or a borked temp sensor. Put a fan directly towards the socket/PWM area. The Epox nF3 Ultra droped the temps by 10°C by doing that.