1. Check to make sure you applied thermal paste
2. If you do, indeed, have thermal paste on your CPU, then tinker with the speed of your fan. Make it as high as it goes. Otherwise, apply thermal paste. Properly, a lot of people say to put a grain of rice in the center then sit your cooler on it.
3. If your temperatures remain higher than my friends on a saturday, get a new cooler.
CONTINUE FROM HERE ONLY IF YOUR TEMPS ARE NO LONGER SO DAMN HIGH
4. Change windows power plan to High-Performance
5. In Catalyst Control Center/Vision Engine Control Center, under "power", go to CPU Power, then bring the lowest part of the slider all of the way up to the highest part.
2. If you do, indeed, have thermal paste on your CPU, then tinker with the speed of your fan. Make it as high as it goes. Otherwise, apply thermal paste. Properly, a lot of people say to put a grain of rice in the center then sit your cooler on it.
3. If your temperatures remain higher than my friends on a saturday, get a new cooler.
CONTINUE FROM HERE ONLY IF YOUR TEMPS ARE NO LONGER SO DAMN HIGH
4. Change windows power plan to High-Performance
5. In Catalyst Control Center/Vision Engine Control Center, under "power", go to CPU Power, then bring the lowest part of the slider all of the way up to the highest part.