Methods of reducing CPU temperature.

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While playing some CPU heavy games such as GTA 4, my CPU will experience heat buildup to the point of thermal shutdown if left unchecked. In most of these cases, it will stay at around 65 for a while, before quickly moving to 70. From there, it slowly increases until I close whatever's stressing it. I applied new thermal paste, making sure to remove all of the old paste and spreading the new paste thinly and evenly across the CPU. This seems to have slowed the heat buildup somewhat, but it will still eventually reach 90.

Besides this, what are some good (and ideally, cheap) ways of cooling the CPU?

CPU: AMD FX-8120 8-core

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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agreed, but he could go watercooling as its nessesary in OCing... h100i is a good start... or even the neptune 240 from cooler master...
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If you spread the thermal paste it is likely that there is to much, all you need to do is apply a dot about the size of a grain of rice and securing the cooler will do the spreading for you.
If your using the stock cooler I would recommend a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO.
62c is the safe daily operating temp so beyond that your running a risk.
 
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The amount isn't going to be the problem. I still put it down like normal (that is, a pea-sized blob), then spread it. Same amount as usual.
 
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You dont spread it, just put the little pea in the center and let the pressure of the heatsink against the cpu spread the paste, if you're using the stock cooler repace it as soon as possible, aftermarket cooling is a must on those CPUs, the 212 evo that someone mentioned earlier is a great cooler for the money.
 
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rannon

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what happens when you spread it there is a chance that ir bubbles might make their way in can cause bad thermal conduction. but if you let the pea sized amount do it with the help and pressure of your cooler, it eliminates the chance of a air pocket. also you do not need to cover the entire heat spreader to gain maximum thermal conduction. also make sure that you cooler is not covered in dust, and make sure the heatsink is secured firmly onto the cpu...(no lose springs if its a push-down type) and if all else fails...then its time to get a new HSF. hope this helped, let me know if there is anything else you need. cheers! :)
 
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No idea what the heatsink is (I didn't build this comp). I actually happen to have another HSF on hand, but I can't get to it right now. I'll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks for the advice.
 
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thats a great cooler! you will bring down the temps at stock speeds but you wont be able to overclock the cpu much in the future

if you are planing to stay stock , then you have chosen right
 
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Sorry but AMD FX-8120 has 3.1GHz base speed (turbo 3.4ghz to 4ghz).. If OP will keep his FX-8120 at stock speed then stock fan is sufficient (it's designed for stock speed) and he may not need 212 EVO at all.. I believe the cpu is running higher than then stock speed so cpu gets hotter - or some other issues.
 
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agreed, but he could go watercooling as its nessesary in OCing... h100i is a good start... or even the neptune 240 from cooler master...
 
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