i5 4690k, High Temps in games, Time to replace with a new Cooler?

DBZfreakMBB · Apr 18, 2016

Hey everyone, about 20 or so minutes ago i was playing a nice comp game on csgo, i open MSI Afterburner and noticed my temps were around 75c while i was playing, it normally doesn't go that high, so i'm wondering if its time to ditch the stock cooler and go for a aftermarket cooler. I think the thermal paste on the stock cooler is starting to wore off so its probably good idea since the stock cooler is trash and the CPU is not and never has been OC'd. If you think some other reason why the temps are so high please let me know but can you suggest any good cpu air coolers around the $50-$70 Mark?

Here's my System if you wanted the specs
CPU: Intel i5 4690K Quad-Core 3.5 GHz Devils Canyon
Video Card: MSI GTX 970 4gb Twin Frozr V Edition GDDR5
Motherboard: AsRock Z97M Pro4 LGA 1150
Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16GB 1866MHz (2x8 Ram sticks)
Case: Deepcool Tesseract SW USB 3.0 Mid Tower Chassis Blue
OS: Windows 7 64Bit
Monitor: Acer GN246HL 24' Inch 1080p
Storage: 1TB WD Blue Caviar 7200RPM
PowerSupply: Seasonic G-650W PSU
Speakers: Logitech Z506
Headset: Logitech G430
Mouse: SteelSeries Rival
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow

nooneisback · Apr 18, 2016

Yep, buy a good thermal compound like MX 4 and a good mid range air cooler like the CRYORIG H7 or CM Hyper 212 EVO.

DBZfreakMBB · Apr 18, 2016

nooneisback :

Will the CM Hyper 212x work just as well as a regular Evo? or is the Evo better in any regard?

BringerOfTea · Apr 18, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqeNu6fRrH0

this guy tested it and not a noticable difference.

DBZfreakMBB · Apr 18, 2016

BringerOfTea :

Then will Arctic Silver 5 Compound and CM Hyper 212x Make a reasonable combo?

synphul · Apr 18, 2016

The type of paste you use makes little difference, most popular pastes whether as5, mx-4, prolimatech pk2/3, noctua's nt-h1 etc perform within 1-3c of one another. More important is the cooler itself, how you apply the paste (too little, too much) and ambient room temps along with case cooling. As5 is supposed to have a break in period recommending several power on/power off cycles, around 200hrs of cure time etc for optimal performance. It can be a bit thinner than something like mx-4.

The 212x would be alright but if the cryorig h7 is available I'd personally go with that. In addition to slightly better performance both in cooling and lower noise it's designed to offer 0 ram interference. The cm coolers position the fan just a bit too close where it tends to press against the ram in the first ram slot unless you use low profile ram.

If ambient room temps are warmer now than they were before that may be part of your cpu temps. The stock cooler mounting pins may have loosened a bit which is why I tend to avoid them when possible. Personally I prefer a bracket on the backside of the motherboard and a cooler that screws down vs the cheesy plastic pushpins. 75c isn't catastrophic but a bit warm for gaming load. Hard to tell what the cooling difference is without a point of reference where your temps used to be. Either of those aftermarket coolers should perform better than the stock cooler and even allow for some mild to moderate overclocking if you choose to.

DBZfreakMBB · Apr 18, 2016

synphul :

The type of paste you use makes little difference, most popular pastes whether as5, mx-4, prolimatech pk2/3, noctua's nt-h1 etc perform within 1-3c of one another. More important is the cooler itself, how you apply the paste (too little, too much) and ambient room temps along with case cooling. As5 is supposed to have a break in period recommending several power on/power off cycles, around 200hrs of cure time etc for optimal performance. It can be a bit thinner than something like mx-4.

The 212x would be alright but if the cryorig h7 is available I'd personally go with that. In addition to slightly better performance both in cooling and lower noise it's designed to offer 0 ram interference. The cm coolers position the fan just a bit too close where it tends to press against the ram in the first ram slot unless you use low profile ram.

If ambient room temps are warmer now than they were before that may be part of your cpu temps. The stock cooler mounting pins may have loosened a bit which is why I tend to avoid them when possible. Personally I prefer a bracket on the backside of the motherboard and a cooler that screws down vs the cheesy plastic pushpins. 75c isn't catastrophic but a bit warm for gaming load. Hard to tell what the cooling difference is without a point of reference where your temps used to be. Either of those aftermarket coolers should perform better than the stock cooler and even allow for some mild to moderate overclocking if you choose to.

Cheers! the cyrorig H7 was available for the same price as the 212x so it seemed liked the better option to go for the h7, also ordered it along with the As5, Thank you for helping me.

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