Overheating While Idle with a i5-6500 CPU

dogusyazici · Feb 3, 2018

I have an Intel i5-6500 with the stock cooler. Just noticed that the minimum temperature is around 60 degrees while checking the statistics. I don't think this is normal, so just wanted to ask here for help. Fans are working correctly I guess.

Here are the statistics for the CPU;

https://imgur.com/z4MW6Qh

marksavio · Feb 3, 2018

you may need to buy some thermal paste to try to re-apply your stock cooler again to your CPU. what was your CPU usage and clockspeed during idle state?

dogusyazici · Feb 3, 2018

marksavio :

Looks like I somehow failed to post the screenshot. I updated the main thread with a link with the statistics.

marksavio · Feb 3, 2018

normally you want your CPU to idle at temps below 35C. just try to remount your cooler. you may opt to buy an aftermarket cooler as well.

dogusyazici · Feb 3, 2018

Decided to take a look at the statistics in-game.

https://imgur.com/DrIiici

This is just after a 15-20min playtime of PUBG. Also, I had mouselag. Don't know if that's an in-game bug or caused by the overheating of the CPU.

SkyNetRising · Feb 3, 2018

Your CPU cooler obviously is not installed correctly.
Can you make a photo of your cpu cooler?

I suspect cooler push pins to be in wrong orientation.

dogusyazici · Feb 3, 2018

I think the pins were in the right place. Just to make sure and clean the place up a bit, I got the cooler out.

https://imgur.com/a/ghCcW

After taking the photos I got rid of the dust. But there's no thermal paste I assume?

SkyNetRising · Feb 3, 2018

You should have taken photos with cooler installed.

If it was installed right, thermal paste would be smeared out. Looks like there was no contact between cooler and cpu at all.
(thermal paste is those 3 dark-grey lines on the cooler)

Before reinstalling cpu cooler, you have to turn black push pins in direction opposite to arrows.

It's possible, the thermal paste is so dried out it's unusable and needs to be replaced.

dogusyazici · Feb 3, 2018

Strange, I'm pretty sure that the cooler pins had no problem, but uninstalling the stock cooler and reinstalling it worked. Looks like those grey lines were the thermal paste, as you mentioned. I assume it's kind of strange that I used this PC without thermal paste for almost two years, with no heating problem.

Anyways, the problem is solved, thanks to you all.

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