So, this issue has me baffled. I have a Corsair H100i water cooling system that has been working great for the past 8 months or so since I bought it along with all the other components for this PC. At some point between yesterday and today, my processor went from keeping a cool temperature regardless of what I was doing with it, to climbing from room temperature all the way to 100C within a minute or two of booting up. I noticed this through the CAM software and since I've been testing it, I've only been booting into the BIOS each time. And despite there being absolutely no load on the CPU, it climbs up to 100C and starts throttling to the point that it starts freezing up.
I've taken the heat sink off the processor 3 times now and swapped out the thermal paste using a little less than a pea sized dollop each time that has covered pretty much all of the surface area of the processor. I've checked to make sure the copper part is flush with the processor and the whole thing is seated properly as well.
As the heat climbs to 100C, I can put my fingers all around the processor and not feel very much heat at all. The radiator on the Corsair is also completely cool and both fans are clean and running fine.
No hardware changes have happened recently at all and my computer has been running perfectly fine up to this point. I'm completely baffled at what this could be and what could have caused it overnight with seemingly no changes. Any new ideas would be much appreciated. I haven't been able to find anything that I have not already tried in other forums, so I don't know if the water cooling system is broken or what.
I've taken the heat sink off the processor 3 times now and swapped out the thermal paste using a little less than a pea sized dollop each time that has covered pretty much all of the surface area of the processor. I've checked to make sure the copper part is flush with the processor and the whole thing is seated properly as well.
As the heat climbs to 100C, I can put my fingers all around the processor and not feel very much heat at all. The radiator on the Corsair is also completely cool and both fans are clean and running fine.
No hardware changes have happened recently at all and my computer has been running perfectly fine up to this point. I'm completely baffled at what this could be and what could have caused it overnight with seemingly no changes. Any new ideas would be much appreciated. I haven't been able to find anything that I have not already tried in other forums, so I don't know if the water cooling system is broken or what.
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