Hey guys. Its been awhile since i was last on here.
So my i7 is crazy hot right now. I built the system a couple months ago and was seeing average temps running Aida64. Im cooling with an H220 and max i was seeing was about 67c. idling was around 22c. Totally normal
Everything was fine then the other day i loaded up Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 (great game) and ended up overdrawing my UPS. Infact the UPS started the alarm, cut off power from the wall and i drained my backup battery.
I plugged my desktop into the wall and started it back up and got a 'CPU overheat error' during post.
got into windows and checked temps and they were at about 95c. now after browsing craigslist im at 115c. Obviously this must be a fluke
For the record i chalked all the heat up to a potentially broken pump on my H220 so i swapped out thermal paste to see if MAYBE that was the issue. Reinstalled the cooler and nothing. still hot as hell.
so i broke out the old stock heatsink. installed that and still hot as hell.
So now i think its either a bust CPU or my probes are wonky.
Any ideas?
For the record, SGW2 was the first actually intensive game ive played on this build
TL;DR
CPU is crazy hot (120c max, program cant read any higher). used stock heatsink and H220 and changed thermal paste 3 times. no results.