My cpus are overheating, thermal paste?

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kyriusalarcon

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Hi, i have a workstation xw6600 , with 2 processors e5430

The first processor has the temp at 70 C, the other processor has the temp at 60 C

I know these are very high temps, do you think i need to remove the old thermal paste and apply new thermal paste?

I cleaned the dust from the fans and the heatsink. I have not removed the heatsink.

Or maybe my workstation is too old? i bought it 3 years ago. And it is not overclocked.

 
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After going online and looking at pictures of your HP XW6600 case internals, the problem is so obvious.

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HP strikes again with another poorly designed case airflow setup, your HDD carriage is blocking the air intake of the top CPU and blocking 1/3rd+ to 1/2 of the lower CPU.

HP should have redesigned the case to accommodate the HDD carriage down lower and supplied air intake directly across from the CPUs, but that would require someone with intelligence of practical air flow design to be on the design team.

Instead HP is all about how much can we cram in this box, irrelevant to the customer needing the computer to last past the warranty if...
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kyriusalarcon

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Nop, hmmm it could be the graphic card... but the graphic card is colder than the processor.... it would be the other way around..
 
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My case is opened. i guess the temperature of my cpu is getting higher every week... some weeks ago the fan didint make so much noise than it does now when i run some games... it seems like it needs to work more now to keep the temperature low (70-80 C)

I am worried :/

 
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Maybe you can also check on the Software side, have a look on the workload of the procs. Sometimes OS are not very equilibrated and can overcharge one proc over the other.
Anyway changing Thermal paste is something you can do with regularity, as this chemical things ages.
 
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kyriusalarcon

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It' s not the workload, it is 0- 10% right now and the temp is at 70 C
 
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After going online and looking at pictures of your HP XW6600 case internals, the problem is so obvious.

T29xlLXhhcXXXXXXXX_!!1418069.jpg


HP strikes again with another poorly designed case airflow setup, your HDD carriage is blocking the air intake of the top CPU and blocking 1/3rd+ to 1/2 of the lower CPU.

HP should have redesigned the case to accommodate the HDD carriage down lower and supplied air intake directly across from the CPUs, but that would require someone with intelligence of practical air flow design to be on the design team.

Instead HP is all about how much can we cram in this box, irrelevant to the customer needing the computer to last past the warranty if possible.

A fan cannot pull air in and do it's job when the airflow is restricted like that.

If you have any modding skills at all you could relocate the HDD carriage and clear the heat sink cooling fan intake area, otherwise you'll just have to live with it.

If you had the room in the 5 1/2 upper bay to move your HDDs up there, you could remove the HDD carriage from the machine altogether.

That would still take some minor modding skills as from the picture it looks riveted in, but nothing a drill can't handle.
 
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kyriusalarcon

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I got other fans, those fans in the picture are not the original fans of the pc.

The original fans are like this
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It cannot be the airflow, because my case is opened and all the warm airs goes out directly.

Maybe i can buy new and better fans ( with their heatsinks) but i have no idea what kind of fans are compatible (space) with my 2 processor pc...

 
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I found zero pictures of your setup online sporting those heat sinks, but you should know what you're looking at.

The heat sink you posted a picture of is installed minus the plastic shipping shroud right, that's supposed to be removed!

Would you post a picture of inside your case?
 
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