I applied some new thermal paste and there is no difference in temp.

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callum Llewellyn123

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I applied some new thermal paste and there is no difference in temp. I used to have the stock Intel 15 4670k Haswell heat sink and I bought some Artic Cooling MX-4 and there is no difference in temp. Did I apply too much?
 
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It's thermal paste not magic. At most there is usually a few degrees difference between the most expensive stuff and the cheapest stuff. Hell even tooth paste works.

And thermal paste is just 1 drop in the whole chain of cooling. Are you overclocking, case fans, air flow, quality of the motherboard.

And what temp are you looking at? when it's idle or under full load.
 
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callum Llewellyn123

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I am not overclocking.
I have 6 case fans 2 corsair fans that came with my 200r and 4 coolermaster sickle flow.
My PC is on my wooden floor in my room and it gets adequate airflow.
My motherboard is the ROG Maximus VI Hero.
 
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As long as the temperature didn't go up, you're probably fine.

I re-greased an i5-3570K last night. It was using the stock cooler and Dynex thermal compound, and I didn't have any temperature problems, it was just part of a general tune-up/clean-up. I used Antec 7 on it this time, and my load temperature went from about 60C at 22C ambient to the mid-70s. Something clearly went wrong, so I re-did the compound, and the temperatures got back to normal. Maybe a degree or two lower, but I didn't check the numbers carefully. I'm calling that good.

It's only if your temperatures climb after applying new compound that you have a problem.
 
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