Overheating after applying thermal paste.

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Cracker Ethane

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hello,
I have Gigabyte H61M-S1 Rev 3.0 Motherboard.
Intel Pentium G2030 3.0 Ghz Processor.
6 GB DDR3 1333mhz RAM.
450w old PSU.
AMD Radeon R7 260x HIS iCooler 2GB GPU.
When i am playing games my CPU,GPU,PSU Both are get overheated (80 C). After applying thermal paste.
I think PSU is Not correct.
Please tell me whats is problem.
 
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A PSU is not likely to impact temperatures.

If you reapplied thermal paste, did you put enough on? It's not spilling out onto your motherboard, is it?

Did you reapply to both the CPU & GPU? I'd suspect you haven't seated the coolers fully/correctly.
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A PSU is not likely to impact temperatures.

If you reapplied thermal paste, did you put enough on? It's not spilling out onto your motherboard, is it?

Did you reapply to both the CPU & GPU? I'd suspect you haven't seated the coolers fully/correctly.
 
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While you may not have the ideal PSU, the symptoms you're mentioning are not indicative of the PSU being at fault.

PSUs don't cause components to overheat (unless the PSU is seriously faulty), you'd experience shutdowns during GPU intensive tasks etc.
 
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Yesterday i was bought a Cooler Master Elite 311 with 3 fans.But Problems is from 4-5 days.
i think its bottleneck problem.(Only) when i am playing games all things are over heating otherwise no overheating.
 
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Sorry, but you're not making sense. You're throwing terms out that are pretty much irrelevant to the issue you're seeking assistance on.

I'd suggest you remove the coolers, clean off the paste you applied and re-apply. Ensuring you reseat the cooler(s) firmly and correctly.

Neither a bottleneck, nor a low wattage PSU would result in overheating.

Given this issue has occurred after you cleaned & reapplied thermal paste - something that happened at that time is likely to be the cause.
 
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Still not a bottleneck of PSU issue.

Components can handle much more demanding tasks than gaming without overheating - if cooled correctly. If you're overheating, you have a cooling issue.
Obviously ensure all case fans are operating, and there's no dust build up - but as this occurred after you replaced thermal paste, that's near guaranteed to be the cause.

I won't be stating this again - something happened when you were cleaning/applying thermal paste. I would suspect the cooler(s) are not seated correctly.
Remove the cooler, replace the thermal paste & seat the cooler correctly.
 
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