A couple of things, one, spend the extra money on a better paste, IT'S WORTH IT, second, how cramped is it in your case? Do you have a lot of IDE cables and other wiring impeding your airflow? do your intake vents look clean?
Also, is this all upgraded equipment in an older case, sometimes older cases just dont have enough vents to allow the higher CFM's of air needed to cool the system,
And lastly, use a utility to monitor your fan speed and temperature, your controller may not be doing its job, controlling the fan speed, you may need to manually set it to full.
I have the same CPU, and I am running the factory cooling solution on it, and I play Crysis, Quake Wars, Bioshock, all sorts of things without it getting as hot as yours is.
My system:
Case: RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WBP Black SECC STEEL ATX Mid Tower
Pwr Sup: ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ800 ATX12V / EPS12V 800W Patent Piperock
Modular Power Supply
Mobo: ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard, w/Realtec 7.1 CH HD Audio
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775
Quad-Core Processor, G0 Stepping
Mem: OCZ Vista Upgrade 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
(PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
GPU: EVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit
GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB
Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
OS(s): XP (version LastXP) & Vista Ultimate (version LastV) Dual Boot (soon triple boot with Kubuntu Linux Distro)
I play Crysis, BioShock, Quake Wars etc. with ALL graphic settings maxed out (sometimes gotta turn back tha AA, but hey I really don't miss it anyway), wow they are pretty, but the AI in Crysis...
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