- Jul 29, 2014
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I recently cleaned out my computer and reapplied thermal paste but upon booting up my pc I noticed my temps are a bit high. The temperature on it seems to jump up to 60+ when starting programs (qbittorrent, foobar) and will sometimes jump 70+ celsius. I've had this build for four years now, and I know it's a bit outdated at this point but I just want to know if there is something I can do for the time being until I can get enough money to upgrade.
temperature at the moment from just having chrome / steam open:
here are my specs directly from speccy:
http://i.imgur.com/sSlwSYI.png
I think I may have applied the thermal paste incorrectly. Despite having built this computer I'm not that knowledgeable about some of the stuff regarding it all. I didn't have any themal paste purifier or anything of the sort and cleaned off the cpu with a clean paper towel and cleaned the heatsink to the best of my ability. The way I applied the paste was at the advice of some youtube videos where you apply a bb sized dab of it and spread it evenly with a card of some sort. I was then told by a friend that I was supposed to just put the heat sink on and it would spread evenly itself. Is there anything I can do?
temperature at the moment from just having chrome / steam open:
here are my specs directly from speccy:
http://i.imgur.com/sSlwSYI.png
I think I may have applied the thermal paste incorrectly. Despite having built this computer I'm not that knowledgeable about some of the stuff regarding it all. I didn't have any themal paste purifier or anything of the sort and cleaned off the cpu with a clean paper towel and cleaned the heatsink to the best of my ability. The way I applied the paste was at the advice of some youtube videos where you apply a bb sized dab of it and spread it evenly with a card of some sort. I was then told by a friend that I was supposed to just put the heat sink on and it would spread evenly itself. Is there anything I can do?
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