- Aug 10, 2015
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My i5 4590 with stock cooler and paste has had it's max temps spike recently.
When it was new 2 years ago it peaked around 55 C. The last couple months it's been peaking at 65 C, but I figured that was normal. Yesterday I noticed it had hit 95 C under load and it now idles over 50 C.
Dust is cleaned, the fan's bearing seems fine (it's not making any extra noise). It is idling around 1500 RPM (That seems high?) and maxes at 2050 RPM when the CPU hits 70 C, the temp just slowly climbs after that.
The case fans are all working, the motherboard and hard drives hang around 30 C. The GPU idles at 34 C. I've confirmed the temps in the BIOS. It's about 22 C in the room.
I'm thinking of changing the fans around a bit to help, but I've used this fan setup with no problem for the 7 years I've had this case.
Would it need new thermal paste so soon? I've never had to re-apply thermal past in the dozen or so build's I've done but I know it needs done from time to time.
Am I missing something else I should try first?
When it was new 2 years ago it peaked around 55 C. The last couple months it's been peaking at 65 C, but I figured that was normal. Yesterday I noticed it had hit 95 C under load and it now idles over 50 C.
Dust is cleaned, the fan's bearing seems fine (it's not making any extra noise). It is idling around 1500 RPM (That seems high?) and maxes at 2050 RPM when the CPU hits 70 C, the temp just slowly climbs after that.
The case fans are all working, the motherboard and hard drives hang around 30 C. The GPU idles at 34 C. I've confirmed the temps in the BIOS. It's about 22 C in the room.
I'm thinking of changing the fans around a bit to help, but I've used this fan setup with no problem for the 7 years I've had this case.
Would it need new thermal paste so soon? I've never had to re-apply thermal past in the dozen or so build's I've done but I know it needs done from time to time.
Am I missing something else I should try first?
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