Hello!
So I have a problem with my old PC that I just shipped to my gf, and wanted to maybe confirm if I probably understood the problem correctly with some people that might know better than me still
The CPU keeps overheating after shipping it (well secured with instapak and all) from Germany to France with a big Freezer 13 Pro Air cooler on top of a 2600k.
Since on the first boot after some waiting the bios reports it going up from like 40 or 50 to 88 Celsius over the course of a minute or a little more, I was assuming that the cooler isn't seated correctly or came loose during shipping.
At first I thought the CPU could be borked because I never noticed the temp growing to 88 in my first few attempts, but that was probably because I tried shortly beforehand and it didn't have time to cool down.
So what my plans are to try to fix it today/tomorrow:
- I have some thermal paste arriving today, some NT-H2 and some Kryonaut although I am not sure which one I'll use yet
To use it I will try to carefully remove the Air Cooler with some tiny wiggles and after starting the PC for a minute to heat up the CPU and remaining connected paste, then clean the CPU and heatsink and then reapply and put heatsink back on?
Is there anything else I should try or does it sound like a classic heatsink not taking the heat error to you too?