Well, good luck to you. I now think my CPU really was running at 86C; the stock Intel cooler must've had one corner not securely fastened, though that wasn't obvious. In any case, I added a Noctua D-14 to it today and it now idles at 17C if my air c...

I was consistently getting a code 34 on POST with a Maximus IV Extreme-Z board, thinking I would have to RMA it. The debug code would go all the way up to 98, then go back down to 34 and had 1 long beep, 4 short beeps, a brief pause, then another sh...