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I have an AMD FX 8320 CPU on ASRock Fatality 990 FX Killer Motherboard with a Hyper 212. I am currently using the stock thermal paste. first I installed the stock cooler for 2 days and then took it to a shop to make them install the 212. I don't know how well they cleaned the old thermal paste or the method to install the new thermal paste. My CPU currently runs at 4.2 Ghz on stock voltages. My idle temps are fine but on load before overclock it was at 65c and after overclock it is at 69c while Prime 95 but 72c after playing Bioshock Infinite for an hour in HWMonitor. No other games reach that temp. At that temp it starts to throttle. I have ordered an Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste. Was that a bad choice ? Does AS5 come with any thermal paste cleaner ? If not I will buy one. Will that reduce my temps and if yes by how much ? I currently use a Push Pull config and I just wanted to avoid the throttling. That's all and also is the issue which I am facing normal ? Here's the link to a screenshot of HWMonitor after an hour playing Bioshock Infinite and also my GPU is also overclocked. https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0k2afte46p26k1/HWMonitor%20Temp%20Chart.PNG. Thanks.
 
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Use rubbing alcohol and a microfiber cloth to clean the old thermal paste. Arctic Silver 5 is a good thermal paste. Your cpu cooling isn't perhaps the best option for over clocking an FX 8320. I suggest investing some money into a high quality air cpu cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler or a liquid cooling corsair h100i.
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Use rubbing alcohol and a microfiber cloth to clean the old thermal paste. Arctic Silver 5 is a good thermal paste. Your cpu cooling isn't perhaps the best option for over clocking an FX 8320. I suggest investing some money into a high quality air cpu cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler or a liquid cooling corsair h100i.
 
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I have already spent money on a 212. It is just 3 months old. Will use it for more time just to value my money. But people with same specs get less than 60c. Also if it is bad and the problem is because it is not powerful and not with TIM then on stock it reaches 65c and what will the stock cooler at stock speed achieve then ? It might reach 75-80c then. Just a 5 degree increase in temp doesn't matter. Anyway I will go on with thermal paste and will wait. I just want it to not throttle. That's all. Anyway thanks. I am also doubtful that the person at the shop applied themal paste incorrectly or did not clean it off well and after a clean install of Arctic Silver 5 what should I except ? This is the first time I am messing around with TIM and cooling solutions.
 
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You shouldn't expect a too big of change in performance.
 
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That's not true. I answer this same problem 20x a day on this forum about Hyper 212s failing to cool overclocked 8300s. It's fine for stock operation, or for a lesser CPU model to be overclocked.

Good luck with your TIM spreading. If they did a very poor job, you could get 3-5 degrees. But more than likely they did an average job and you won't notice the difference.

Be sure that you are reading your temps right. Your CPU should be throttling due to thermal margin way before it ever reaches 65'C socket temp. There is no core temp on these CPUs.

 
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