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March 16, 2014 6:25:37 PM

Recently my CPU temperature has been increasing dramatically. I'm not sure what is causing this issue or how to check what it is. Do I need to replace my CPU, or CPU cooler?
I could have nothing running at all and it still gets pretty high. My CPU is the AMD A8-5600k. Thank you in advance.

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a c 83 à CPUs
March 16, 2014 6:29:06 PM

How high is high
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March 16, 2014 6:33:01 PM

coolcole01 said:
How high is high

Highest I have seen it get is 98 degrees

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a c 83 à CPUs
March 16, 2014 6:35:47 PM

thats high im guessing a stock cooler
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a c 83 à CPUs
March 16, 2014 6:37:41 PM

did you install it or is this pre built
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a b à CPUs
March 16, 2014 6:44:07 PM

Are you certain that is Celsius?
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March 16, 2014 6:59:27 PM

If it is celsius, that is super high. Clean your heatsink, it might be super dusty or full of hair. ensure your fan is at a decent rpm, maybe a cable is rubbing against it and keeping it low or stopped? Get some compressed air if it looks even a little dusty or hairy. I had a celeron 566 oc'd to over 1ghz that was rock solid at 100deg c for like 2 years, but i dont recommend keeping your temps that high - i just wanted to see if it would last. you could also buy some new thermal paste and apply it. toms has a guide on how much/how to apply after you clean both surfaces. stock heatsinks are designed to be within the correct thermal specs for stock cpu speed, but errors in the little thermal pad might be at the root of it. also, check your cpu usage. if you have something (like a piece of malware mining bitcoins on your cpu) keeping it at 100% use, your temps will be as high as your cooling solution can manage (which is affected by the things i mentioned). at idle your cpu should easily be less.
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March 16, 2014 7:37:14 PM

Okay so I cleaned it out, there was a ton of dust and dust bunnies. My current temperature is 57 degrees celsius. My fan speed is at 6382 RPM. There is now a really annoying buzzing sound from the fan it seems like. I have no idea how to lower the speed of the fan to see if that is what is making the noise. I downloaded Speedfan but it does not detect my CPU fan, only my GPU.
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a c 83 à CPUs
March 16, 2014 7:59:25 PM

The speed cant lower its doing everything it can to stay there change the thermal psste or buy a 212evo
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March 16, 2014 8:47:05 PM

coolcole01 said:
The speed cant lower its doing everything it can to stay there change the thermal psste or buy a 212evo


I don't really have any money to purchase any new parts. I was hoping for a different solution.
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a c 83 à CPUs
March 17, 2014 6:49:59 PM

Maybe you can re set the heat sink get some mx4 or similar and go to town
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March 17, 2014 7:47:53 PM

coolcole01 said:
Maybe you can re set the heat sink get some mx4 or similar and go to town


How much of that MX4 will I need? and idk how I would apply it.
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March 17, 2014 9:52:29 PM

NunezIV said:
coolcole01 said:
Maybe you can re set the heat sink get some mx4 or similar and go to town


How much of that MX4 will I need? and idk how I would apply it.


You only need a pea sized dot, really. Less thermal paste is more. If it does ever come down to it, you should try to invest in Liquid cooling or just a better cooler. Stock cooling is bad, trust me I have gone up to 98 Celcius while playing BF4. That was before I got a Thermaltake NiC C5 cooler. Now it's around 50 Celcius. But if you just can't afford it, use the thermal paste and just keep dusting ALL of your pc fans and heatsink out... Lets say about every month or so.
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March 17, 2014 11:50:12 PM

deitylink4567 said:
NunezIV said:
coolcole01 said:
Maybe you can re set the heat sink get some mx4 or similar and go to town


How much of that MX4 will I need? and idk how I would apply it.


You only need a pea sized dot, really. Less thermal paste is more. If it does ever come down to it, you should try to invest in Liquid cooling or just a better cooler. Stock cooling is bad, trust me I have gone up to 98 Celcius while playing BF4. That was before I got a Thermaltake NiC C5 cooler. Now it's around 50 Celcius. But if you just can't afford it, use the thermal paste and just keep dusting ALL of your pc fans and heatsink out... Lets say about every month or so.


Yeah my cooling is stock.
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