- Oct 14, 2012
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I installed a Hyper 212 Plus and my computer's performance slowed down dramatically. Usually when i get problems, i like to do a reformat and a clean install on the hard drive, so I did a clean install of windows, booted it up and things got worse. Now my computer freezes for minutes at a time, the mouse looses input sometimes my USB ports dont work, my CPU cores randomly go under 100% load and all my free RAM is being used.
Originally, i put way too much thermal paste and it did spill over on top of the CPU unfortunately. And when i removed it, it got under the CPU as well. I cleaned both sides with an alcohol pad and let them dry before re-installing it. (How bad is that idea?)
I read on another thread here that a guy had problems with the same CPU and heatsink, but his whole computer didnt boot and everyone believed it was a PSU issue but i have a 600watt PSU.
Anyways, here's my computer specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,40GHz
G-Skill Rip Jaw Series 1066 8GBs (2x 4GB sticks)
GTX 550ti GPU
Thermaltake PurePower 600AP PSU
Seagate 3TB HDD
Also, I'd like to post some pics but its asking for a URL and the pics aren't hosted.
Also my core temps are about 38c at idle and 56c under load.
Originally, i put way too much thermal paste and it did spill over on top of the CPU unfortunately. And when i removed it, it got under the CPU as well. I cleaned both sides with an alcohol pad and let them dry before re-installing it. (How bad is that idea?)
I read on another thread here that a guy had problems with the same CPU and heatsink, but his whole computer didnt boot and everyone believed it was a PSU issue but i have a 600watt PSU.
Anyways, here's my computer specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,40GHz
G-Skill Rip Jaw Series 1066 8GBs (2x 4GB sticks)
GTX 550ti GPU
Thermaltake PurePower 600AP PSU
Seagate 3TB HDD
Also, I'd like to post some pics but its asking for a URL and the pics aren't hosted.
Also my core temps are about 38c at idle and 56c under load.
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