![]() ![]() Fans can wear out, and I would look at how your motherboard controls fan speed. I had an Arctic cooler running for years on my old computer, my current machine is stock Dell. The past isn't really there to be a good conductor, it just increases the area for heat flow.Ī good cooler rig can be pretty cheap, though the room in the case will matter. Neither are flat (I once saw an optical flat. Tl dr, your temps are probably fine, replace thermal paste since it was dry, stock cooler should be OK but a cooler upgrade would be a good optionĪs I recall, the point of the thermal paste is to compensate for imperfect thermal contact between the cooler and the top of the chip-casing. Liquid metal is a meme and destroys aluminum coolers. Water cooling may be an option since the higher end haswell processors are pretty hot, even the non-k locked versions, any regular all in one cooler would be a decent option, the Corsair H60i is really popular and fits in anything with a 120mm fan mount for the radiator.ĭont use the ceramic stock paste that the coolers come with, always go with better quality thermal compound, Arctic Silver 5 or MX-4, Grizzly Kryonaut is also fantastic stuff. ![]() The CPU can take the heat, the socket cannot.Īs someone who has built a lot of PC's, if youre going to upgrade cooling on what lillith says is a 4790 (im not sure, but it applies to just about anything), if you want to go with air cooling look into a Cryorig H7 (C7 if you have a slim case) or Hyper 212 Evo, BeQuiet Pure Rock line, Cooler Master T2 if you want a small tower, or a Noctua NH-D15 if you want to go all out (though on a locked processor, its absolute overkill). If you did this for the love of god do not run that machine hard until you replace the thermal paste, if it maxes out and cant dissipate heat, it will heat up extremely fast and will thermal shutdown and possibly cause damage to the motherboard. you need the space from the side panel to the mainboard, minus an extra 1cm or so for the socket mounting.įor example, this one for £26, 150mm high. They usually come with a little bag of thermal paste, so you don't need to buy an extra product.Įither you check the stats of your case at the manufacturer's website or you'll measure it yourself. try and see.īest solution: get a custom cooler for your CPU. On the other hand, it may be blowing straight onto the boxed cooler. That one may actually interrupt the airflow from the front intake to the back outlet. You can try if your fan setup is more effective without the side one running. Your CPU (i7-4790) belongs to the "Heatwell" generation which runs hot pretty easily. Running ARK with the boxed cooler, 70° is, well, to be expected. Prime95 simulates a very extreme scenario, including temperatures you rarely see in normal use. ![]() ![]() If you don't have any fresh paste, at least remove the old leftovers or you'll have an even worse heat transition.Ĭleaning alcohol will do for the removal. you removed the cooler and checked the dried thermal paste and then you put the cooler straight back onto the CPU, without new paste or at least removing the old stuff? Prime 95, 8 agents running, I hit 75-85 C on the CPU with all fans runningĪRK on high, the CPU hits a 70C with all fans running, 80C with the intake fans on the front off. On a side note, I did stress tests with Prime 95 and running ARK *the game* The Thermal paste was very dry, so, would it be a safe bet that i need to replace the thermal past, or, is the fan for the CPU not a good fan in general. I hit these temperatures before cleaning along with hitting the same after cleaning, I took off the CPU fan when cleaning and made sure it was correctly installed. When running secondlife, i hit temperatures of 46C When in my skybox, but in sims with more than a simplistic skybox I hit around 64C (With shadows on, I hit 70C) My Current cooler is an " Intel Original E97378 LGA1155/1156 Aluminum/Copper CPU Heatsink, P/N # E97378 " The 2 front and side are intakes, the back is the rear exhaust fan. I am running 4 fans, one on the back, 2 on the front, and one on the side. I have just done a deep PC clean, using my air compressor wondering if it was the CPU's fan which was blocked with dust. Hi all, just a quick question on my CPU temp when running SL when I can get it working on good days while I wait for my replacement parts as mentioned in a previous post. ![]()
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