i5 3570k temps to hot?

Jamdre1234 · Jun 1, 2014

I have had my pc for 9 months now and the temperature seems to be rising for some reason for my i5 at idle In the bios it is at 45c. I don't understand why this could be I recently applied thermal paste (arctic silver 5). I also build my little brothers pc and his idles at 26c in the same house however his CPU is the i5 4440. I don't know my room temps but I do live in the uk and it never very hot here. I think it's like 18c today. I have a zalman z11 plus case with 5 case fans and 2 92mm CPU heatsink fans (CM TX3). My GPU seems to be getting hotter than it should I set it to aim for 70c but it went upto 80c yesterday. It's a evga 770 sc acx 2gb.

Ubrales · Jun 1, 2014

Just ensure that the heatsink screws are tightened evenly; and not over-tight.

Verify the temps using RealTemp and HWInfo

Jamdre1234 · Jun 1, 2014

I have done that however when installing the heatsink for the first time i messed up the pins that kept it in place but it still stays securely on and i can lift the mobo up with it. With my heatsink it has the same kind of pins as the stock cooler. I bent some of the pins on one side soi had to bend them back to fix the heatsink on.

CodenameHaswell · Jun 1, 2014

In BIOS your CPU will run at full speed, so higher than usual temps in BIOS is not a problem. Load temps are what matter. 80c is fine for a GPU at full load, and 70c should be the max your CPU should get while at full load or running prime95.

Jamdre1234 · Jun 1, 2014

using prime 95 my cpu went upto 66c and using Unigine Valley for my 770 i got up to 76c. this i sannoying me i used the evga tool to set the temperature to 70c but it still goes higher. Do you think i would benefit from a full custom loop.

Ubrales · Jun 1, 2014

In almost all instances water cooling will be better than air cooling. (Worst case it will be equal).

CodenameHaswell · Jun 1, 2014

Jamdre1234 :

I'd say you're safe with those temps. and EVGA precision didnt work for me either, I used MSI Afterburner and it worked for me.

Jamdre1234 · Jun 1, 2014

k thank you both for the help I think I will water cool my pc i always liked the look of water-cooled PC.

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