- Apr 10, 2015
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Hi, and thanks for taking a look 
The short of it: My system is now idling at 55+ degrees C, and I feel like it shouldn't be. Do you have any ideas as to what could be causing it, what I can do or whether this is normal? My gut says it should be a LOT lower.
Intel Core I5-4690K OC 4x4.0GHz (OC by the store I bought it from)
Antec Kuhler H20 650 water cooler
Gigabyte GeForce GTX980 OC 4GB
Windows 8.1 x64
When I bought it 5 months ago it was running like a dream, but with time I started noticing that the LED heat indicator on the water cooler was never blue anymore - it was always magenta, sometimes red - and the fan would sound like a jet engine, even when just opening Chrome on google.com, or the Win 8 picture app.
I've taken a look, and just after booting the temperature is 52-58C, and it stays there. In BIOS it's 47C. The fan pretty much never goes below 1400RPM and often revs up and down which it extremely annoying (running 40 dB at the lowest). I don't have a thermometer, but I'd say the intake temperature is not above 23C.
Playing Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (1080p, ultra, no cap or vsync) for 20 mins runs smooth, but the temp goes to around 75-78C.
It feels like a have a crappy stock cooler with no paste, and not a water cooler.
I've given the fan a good blow through of canned air to dislodge any dust in there, but it hasn't helped a bit.
After booting the pc, not opening any programs, killing background software, stopping AV, and waiting for a few mins doing nothing:
The short of it: My system is now idling at 55+ degrees C, and I feel like it shouldn't be. Do you have any ideas as to what could be causing it, what I can do or whether this is normal? My gut says it should be a LOT lower.
Intel Core I5-4690K OC 4x4.0GHz (OC by the store I bought it from)
Antec Kuhler H20 650 water cooler
Gigabyte GeForce GTX980 OC 4GB
Windows 8.1 x64
When I bought it 5 months ago it was running like a dream, but with time I started noticing that the LED heat indicator on the water cooler was never blue anymore - it was always magenta, sometimes red - and the fan would sound like a jet engine, even when just opening Chrome on google.com, or the Win 8 picture app.
I've taken a look, and just after booting the temperature is 52-58C, and it stays there. In BIOS it's 47C. The fan pretty much never goes below 1400RPM and often revs up and down which it extremely annoying (running 40 dB at the lowest). I don't have a thermometer, but I'd say the intake temperature is not above 23C.
Playing Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (1080p, ultra, no cap or vsync) for 20 mins runs smooth, but the temp goes to around 75-78C.
It feels like a have a crappy stock cooler with no paste, and not a water cooler.
I've given the fan a good blow through of canned air to dislodge any dust in there, but it hasn't helped a bit.
After booting the pc, not opening any programs, killing background software, stopping AV, and waiting for a few mins doing nothing:
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