hazamontsta

Good afternoon/morning. I built my PC nearly 2 years ago now and I've not had any troubles up to this point, however the last couple times I've started it up from cold the CPU temp idles at around 95°C on HW monitor; despite throttling down to 500MHz, hearing the pump going full blast and feeling the air from the fan being cold, if I do anything it still climbs to 110+ before shutting off, I start back up into the BIOS where it confirms the ballpark of the HW monitor reading, then 30 seconds into Windows the temperature drops dramatically to what it's always been at idle ~25-30°C, then the pump backs off and the clocks are what they should be. Is this going to be a case of old thermal paste and needing to replace it? Or is there possibly a bad temp sensor? Specs: Ryzen 5 2600 Cooler Master ML120L AIO GTX 1080 Gigabyte 450M DS3H

Currently got an XFX R9 290 4GB and while performance is somewhat comparable, lower TDP means lower electric bills am I right, plus better DX12 support is always a bonus

The Mediocre PC proving its mediocrity! CPU - AMD FX-6300 GPU - AMD R9 290 RAM - 8GB Score 5.8

So I at last got round to posting a video, no real competition for the people that put the real effort in but still had fun making it on good old movie maker https://youtu.be/t9NzBxeSTOE

User name : hazamontsta Videos: 5K Dual Titan X SLI Performance - https://www.vessel.com/videos/MI7F0u2H8 Rear IO Illumination - https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy