My CPU came with a cooler master heat-sink and fan by AMD for the CPU which is an FX-4170, I've built quite a few computers over the years. But this is really bugging me, everything is running at stock speeds, no overclock's on my puppy until i H2O cool it, I have a few heat sinks laying around and plenty thermal paste/grease (not tried the grease yet on this problem) however the newly purchased paste made NO difference whatsoever.
I have a large case with 11 120mm fans, which don't really help my 1st PCI-e x16 slot being so close to the CPU, which I suspect is cause heat build up, to add to this theory, my hyper-x RAM is also very close to the CPU. I HAVE TRIED adjusting the thermal tolerances in the bios from 90 degress to 100 just to give it a little room to fluctuate, but to no avail.
I will add that the CPU was bought 2nd hand from amazon, this to me is an ever so slight concern, but would not explain why the sudden (past month or so) change in thermal behavior. And if you saw inside my case you would think i built it yesterday, it really is that clean.
Another theory is a dying power supply, which is slightly due to the load i've put on it, and am probably going to put money on this being the cause of the thermals shutting the machine off.
If you want full specs please ask, I use speccy.
I have a large case with 11 120mm fans, which don't really help my 1st PCI-e x16 slot being so close to the CPU, which I suspect is cause heat build up, to add to this theory, my hyper-x RAM is also very close to the CPU. I HAVE TRIED adjusting the thermal tolerances in the bios from 90 degress to 100 just to give it a little room to fluctuate, but to no avail.
I will add that the CPU was bought 2nd hand from amazon, this to me is an ever so slight concern, but would not explain why the sudden (past month or so) change in thermal behavior. And if you saw inside my case you would think i built it yesterday, it really is that clean.
Another theory is a dying power supply, which is slightly due to the load i've put on it, and am probably going to put money on this being the cause of the thermals shutting the machine off.
If you want full specs please ask, I use speccy.