- May 9, 2015
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Well, I'm at a state of wondering what to do with my CPU cooler. The computer itself is between 3-4 years old now, possibly closer to 4. a pre-built form digital storm. The cooler is an H60 i believe, and the cpu itself is an i7-2600k. The reason I'm here is to...help get to the bottom of a bit of an issue I've been having(partly my own fault, possibly mostly)
It..started with the fact I'll admit i haven't been cleaning the PC out, dust collected(a lot), but I'm bad for staying on top of things like that. The issue started when i was playing along fine on the computer for years, and just...all of a sudden she started running like shite and eventually turned off. Turns out it was severely overheating, due to in part an extremely large amount of dust(woo blankets of dark brown annoyingly hard to clean up dust!). Thinking/hoping that was the big issue, i cleaned it up best i can, opening up the radiator, but even after setting it back up, it was still runner hotter than normal. Gave in, got some arctic silver thermal paste, cleaned it up, all shiny, did everything up and put it back together(yes fans are in correct direction, i did mix that one during my putting it back together) the computer worked again.
My problem is...the fact its still running much hotter than i feel it should. The CPU came stock overclocked to 4.4ghz courtesy of DigitalStorm. The CPU as of now, under heavy load, runs upwards and over 90c depending on what I'm playing. Dragon age inquisition for instance was pushing it beyond 90c. The CPU issues have been rising, but ever since the computer turned off due to overheating, its been running hotter than normal ever since.
So my question is, would a replacement cooler for the CPU be a good idea/is the current one slowly dieing off? And if so, what would you recommend as a good replacement? Thanks for reasons my over explained situation!
It..started with the fact I'll admit i haven't been cleaning the PC out, dust collected(a lot), but I'm bad for staying on top of things like that. The issue started when i was playing along fine on the computer for years, and just...all of a sudden she started running like shite and eventually turned off. Turns out it was severely overheating, due to in part an extremely large amount of dust(woo blankets of dark brown annoyingly hard to clean up dust!). Thinking/hoping that was the big issue, i cleaned it up best i can, opening up the radiator, but even after setting it back up, it was still runner hotter than normal. Gave in, got some arctic silver thermal paste, cleaned it up, all shiny, did everything up and put it back together(yes fans are in correct direction, i did mix that one during my putting it back together) the computer worked again.
My problem is...the fact its still running much hotter than i feel it should. The CPU came stock overclocked to 4.4ghz courtesy of DigitalStorm. The CPU as of now, under heavy load, runs upwards and over 90c depending on what I'm playing. Dragon age inquisition for instance was pushing it beyond 90c. The CPU issues have been rising, but ever since the computer turned off due to overheating, its been running hotter than normal ever since.
So my question is, would a replacement cooler for the CPU be a good idea/is the current one slowly dieing off? And if so, what would you recommend as a good replacement? Thanks for reasons my over explained situation!
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