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Sinking Ship posted:Thanks again for your earlier help; I've spent the last few hours installing drivers and software and poo poo and now I've come across something else a bit worrisome so since I have this thread open I hope it's not inappropriate to ask. My CPU is running really hot (according to speccy) like 50°C idle (posting this) and it hit 80°C on a loading screen before I alt+f4'd and it got up in the 80s while I was downloading a game... Those temps are all way higher than my old CPU ran so it's really worrying me considering at no point was I actually really doing anything all that resource intensive. After I noticed it I pulled out the heatsink and reattached it because a quick google suggested maybe I hadn't set it properly or something but it didn't fix it. So I don't know considering my build should I just expect those sort of temperatures from a stock cooler? Should I buy a heatsink? I'll try playing an actual game and see what kind of numbers I'm getting but I'm really worried Can you describe how you reseated it? Did you use new thermal compound? How much did you use? Is the heat sink fan plugged in? Does the heat sink feel loose at all?
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Zogo posted:When you reattach the heatsink onto the CPU both the CPU and heatsink should be wiped clean using something like a coffee filter with a little isopropyl alcohol on it. Then new thermal compound applied. Yep, get a new tube of compound, remove all of the old stuff, and reapply the new stuff correctly. Take a look at some videos or pictures online to see how to do it right.
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