mhh , thats no good You might have a dud 1366 xeon , but thats quite rare . my x 5670 at 4 . 571 Ghz idle ' s around 30 C , and hits 85 C under load . I did have a similar problem with my pc crashing , so I bumped up the DRAM voltage to 1 . 55 V and it hasn ' t crashed since . I did also lap mine , but that only shaved off 5 c . Maybe reaplying some good thermal compound could help If that doesn ' t work , dont feel too bad . They ' re only $ 80 cpu ' s , so you can always try again <| sep |> Personally , I don ' t bother putting most older or indie games on my SSD . I have total of 128512512 GB of SSD and 14 TB of HDD , and for games that I don ' t expect much benefit out of installing them on the SSD , or maybe I want to download the game now but don ' t plan on playing right away , then I ' ll put those on an SSD . Games that take a long time to load when launching and are likely not CPUbound at launch and games that have lots of loads interrupting gameplay like Fallout 4 or Skyrim , those are the ones I want on my SSD for sure .