I recently cleaned out all of the dust built up in my PC build today because games were lagging when I played them. I just played a little bit of Crysis for about 3 hours and after that I thought I'd take a break from it so I quit the game. Before cleaning my build, the benchmarks were horrible, because I usually get a score of about 7500+ running the AMD Overdrive benchmark or even the 3D Mark benchmark software. So after cleaning my build and playing a little Crysis I ran the benchmark again on AMD Overdrive hoping my scores would be back to normal, I got a score of 7500+. But after that I restarted the system since it was recommended by AMD Overdrive, I ran the benchmark again after rebooting and I got a very low score of 1900+. Do you guys think I need a CPU cooler? The reason I ask is because after the reboot, CoreTemp says my cpu temp is around 23-26 degrees celsius, but in the BIOS it says 36 degrees celsius.
My PC specs:
CPU- Phenom ii x2 555 BE with stock cooler
MOBO- Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
RAM- G. Skill F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM
PSU- Corsair TX650W
HDD- Maxtor 6L00R0 200gb (Upgrading next month to Samsung F3 Spinpoint 1tb)
GPU- XFX Radeon HD 5770
Thanks!
My PC specs:
CPU- Phenom ii x2 555 BE with stock cooler
MOBO- Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
RAM- G. Skill F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM
PSU- Corsair TX650W
HDD- Maxtor 6L00R0 200gb (Upgrading next month to Samsung F3 Spinpoint 1tb)
GPU- XFX Radeon HD 5770
Thanks!