CPU Temps are shooting up way to high when gaming, Can someone help?

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Sahil Bakshi

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Hey. Im from india!
Specs : -
i5-3470
8gb ddr3 ram
1 tb hdd
660 ti
b75-d3h motherboard

Im running 2 monitors :

1 x 24 inch dell led on my 660ti
1 x 17 inch dell lcd on my onboard card


These are my temperatures when idle
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When i start browsing and watching a tv show which btw is 480p, not full screen, the CPU temp rises to 53-55 ish.

And when im playing CS GO on the lowest settings on 1080p resolution for 10 minutes :-
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THIS spikes to 83 too and then the pc starts beeping for warning me...

And this is when i play Shadow of Mordor at medium settings with vsync off for just 1 min :
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And as soon as i close the game down, the temps are fine.


This has been happening only in the recent few days after i starting messing with the case fans that i bought.


I recently re did my thermal paste on my cpu with arctic silver ceramique 2 paste.


My CASE : cooler master k380

fans :
1x default fan that came with case ( 120mm coolermaster)
1x Cheap 80mm fan that i had from old pc
1x deepcool xfan120
1x cooler master xtraflo 120mm

- Fan on the side panel is blowing air into case (xtraflo)
- Fan on top of case (80mm) is blowing air into case
- Fan on the front (120mm ) is blowing air into case
- Fan at the back of the case (deepcool 120mm) is blowing air out of the case.

Here are few pics of my case and the cable management :-
1.
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2.
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The cable management got a bit screwed after i installed the fans cuz the fans have small cables so i needed do it like this :/



Can someone help me out? Whats wrong here? My are the temperatures shooting up so bad?

Is it cuz how i placed the fans, or my cpu is bad?

I should point out that both games used to run fine before.


 
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Ok you might want to try doing a BIOS reset and then setting a manual voltage for your processor at 1.05V (or 1.055 if it allows)

To enter the BIOS, mash the delete button when the PC is booting up.
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huilun02

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It could be that the thermal paste under the CPU cooler has dried and cracked, no longer providing good contact with the processor.

But before considering a new cooler or thermal paste, observe if the cooler fan increases in speed when the system goes into load.

If it does ramp up, you might want to consider getting a new cooler.
 
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Sahil Bakshi

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hey,
I just reapplied the thermal paste 2 weeks ago. And i have to say the paste seemed to be applied well in terms of coverage of the cpu.


I dont get u on the fan ramping up.

The cpu cooler fan does incease in fan speed. It goes upto 2000+ when gaming.

And right now when its on idle, the cpu fan is 1800 RPM for some reason, but my other case fan attached to the motherboard is on 1300 RPM
 
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huilun02

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I can only think up of three possible reasons for it:

1. The cooler and/or thermal paste is not doing a good job.

2. The motherboard BIOS is going crazy and incorrectly detecting the processor's temperature. A reset might help in this case.

3. The processor is for some reason pulling excessive amounts of voltage to operate. You can monitor its voltage draw using something like CPU-Z or HWMonitor. If it is exceeding ~1.25V that could be the cause of overheating. Then you will have to force it into a fixed manual voltage in the BIOS.

The case and fan setup looks fine to me and no mount of bad airflow can cause such a bad case of overheating.
 
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Sahil Bakshi

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Can u check if everything looks fine here?
 
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huilun02

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Did you do anything to stress the CPU while having HWMonitor in the background?

I see its gone up to 1.24V which is the kind of volts you get when its working hard, but the max temperature shown was 66 degrees.

If you haven't stressed it already, give it a go for a few minutes and then take a new screenshot.
 
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Sahil Bakshi

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here i ran cs go on Max setting to push the system a little.
 
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