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Tecmo on 24 March 2015
generic-user-1 said:
Tecmo said:
generic-user-1 said:
are you using the boxed fan or another?


The fan that came with the CPU. I know they are not the greatest, but like I said, it has never given me any trouble before.

they like to break after a while, because they are realy cheaply made.

do you hav other fans in your PC? or build in something recently?  had some problems after i got a new hdd, had to change the place of it because it blocked the air flow a lot.

Yeah, I have other fans in my case. My air flow is pretty good and I haven't put anyting new in for a while.



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Bofferbrauer on 24 March 2015

3 Possibilities:

1. Your Termal Paste is overaged and became brittle. In that case you'll have to change it.

2. Your case or at least your cooler being dusty, clogging the thin space in between the cooling fins and thus not letting pass as much air as before and heat building up in your case. If it's just your CPU and not your GPU toon however, then it's probably not the case. A tourough cleaning of the entire case should solve your problem then.

3. Your CPU fan being clogged or rotating at lower speed than normally, reducing it's effectivity. If it's the former, just need to clean it up. If it's the latter however, then something's up either with the fan or it's power supply on the Mainboard and might need to replace one or even both of them.



Tecmo on 24 March 2015

Well, I have solved the problem. After checking to see if my fan speed was still ok under load (it was), buying arctic silver 5 on amazon, and almost buying Corsair Hydro Series H55 Quiet Edition Liquid CPU Cooler I decided to turn off the power and take a closer look at he cpu fan and see if I could find any problems.

After about 10 seconds of looking at the cpu fan, I pushed down on the push pins that intel uses to hold the fan down (I forgot that they use these shitty things instead of screws). I noticed that when I pushed down on one it would literally push the fan down and the other side diagonal would come up. It seems after 3.5 years the push pins needed tightened. Cpu is back to running normally.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the replies. I think I might still buy that Corsair liquid cooler because I would like to overclock my cpu a tiny bit, but at the least I'm going to take off the old thermal paste and apply some new arctic. THANKS again everybody!



I started making videos for youtube; check them out.

Contra (No Deaths): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_OdnbGgupM

Super C (No Deaths): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHoJrHWATgU

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Mike Tyson TKO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4L7oDV79aw

Systems owned: Atari 2600, NES(3), Top loader NES, Yobo NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Gamegear, Sega Nomad, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Playstation 2, Wii, PS3 (slim 120 GB), Wii U

You should congratulate me. I destroyed the vile red falcon and saved the universe. I consider myself a hero.

Hynad on 24 March 2015
Tecmo said:
Well, I have solved the problem. After checking to see if my fan speed was still ok under load (it was), buying arctic silver 5 on amazon, and almost buying Corsair Hydro Series H55 Quiet Edition Liquid CPU Cooler I decided to turn off the power and take a closer look at he cpu fan and see if I could find any problems.

After about 10 seconds of looking at the cpu fan, I pushed down on the push pins that intel uses to hold the fan down (I forgot that they use these shitty things instead of screws). I noticed that when I pushed down on one it would literally push the fan down and the other side diagonal would come up. It seems after 3.5 years the push pins needed tightened. Cpu is back to running normally.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the replies. I think I might still buy that Corsair liquid cooler because I would like to overclock my cpu a tiny bit, but at the least I'm going to take off the old thermal paste and apply some new arctic. THANKS again everybody!

Glad it was nothing, in the end. =)



Robert_Downey_Jr. on 24 March 2015

Man this thread makes my head spin and realize why I'll be sticking with Sony and Nintendo for the foreseeable future. I don't wanna have to worry about when my paste is going to go bad. Oh well have fun guys it's just not for me I admire all your guys' commitment though.



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Turkish on 24 March 2015
Tecmo said:

Hi everyone:

 

                 My CPU has recently been getting very hot while gaming. My CPU is older, but I have not been playing any CPU intensive games. So my questions are: is there a problem with my CPU, do I need a new one, do I maybe need to reapply some thermal paste.

Other info.

PC was built 3.5 years ago, Heatsink fan is still working

CPU is i-5 2500k(it is NOT overclocked) 

Used thermal paste that came pre-applied

Case is dust free

Have never had any problems with CPU temps until now

Used to idle at around 32C now around 40C or so

Game example: Diablo 3 would never get above 72C, last time I played it went up over 90C

Any other questions, let me know. Thanks in advance for the help!

Where you always monitoring your temperature?