About 8 years ago i bought this configuration:
MSI 790XT-G45
Athlon 64 x2 5000+ (Stock cooler)
DDR2 RAM 2x1GB
Radeon HD 5670
And about 2 years ago i started having overheating problems so firstly i changed the thermal paste, and cleaned up my pc. and no change. Then i updated every driver i can find including the bios, still no change. The temp. has been constantly raising one degree C every 5 sec even when on idle (My cpu is at stock speed, never overclocked). And it doesn't stop it can go up to 100 C but my pc shuts down at 90. I tried lower or raising the voltage, pretty much everything (including changing the psu) . So i had to lower the multiplier to 5x (the lowest, 1Ghz) for it to stop overheating. A few days ago i changed the thermal paste again (i bought one of the best, arctic silver i think) and i did a stress test and as soon as i click to stress the temp jump by 20 C in a milisecond, same when i stop it it lowered from 80 C to 50 C in a sec. So i touched the cooler when it was at 80 C and it was warmish (i would estimate it at 35 C). So i figure the readings are incorrect, so can i fix it , and is the mobo the problem or the cpu. Thanks
PS. Using prime95 for load and the temp readings are from the bios and core temp and speedfan
MSI 790XT-G45
Athlon 64 x2 5000+ (Stock cooler)
DDR2 RAM 2x1GB
Radeon HD 5670
And about 2 years ago i started having overheating problems so firstly i changed the thermal paste, and cleaned up my pc. and no change. Then i updated every driver i can find including the bios, still no change. The temp. has been constantly raising one degree C every 5 sec even when on idle (My cpu is at stock speed, never overclocked). And it doesn't stop it can go up to 100 C but my pc shuts down at 90. I tried lower or raising the voltage, pretty much everything (including changing the psu) . So i had to lower the multiplier to 5x (the lowest, 1Ghz) for it to stop overheating. A few days ago i changed the thermal paste again (i bought one of the best, arctic silver i think) and i did a stress test and as soon as i click to stress the temp jump by 20 C in a milisecond, same when i stop it it lowered from 80 C to 50 C in a sec. So i touched the cooler when it was at 80 C and it was warmish (i would estimate it at 35 C). So i figure the readings are incorrect, so can i fix it , and is the mobo the problem or the cpu. Thanks
PS. Using prime95 for load and the temp readings are from the bios and core temp and speedfan
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