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Hi Team,

 

My Name is Subramanya, I am from Bangalore, India. I am an IT professional I head the IT for my office and I am huge pc gaming enthusiast. I own myself decent rig. I am huge fan of you guys, I have been following Linus videos since 2010 way back when the videos was called NCIX tech tips. I dont miss any video of yours. I am kind of run my Own tech tips (not any youtube or forum) with friends circle, in office, family everywhere, I always tell people to check out your videos. 

This is my rig spec

Intel core i7 7700k, MSI Gaming Pro Carbon 270, 32 GB (4x8) 3000 MHZ Corsair vengeance pro RGB, EVGA SC2 1080 GTX, Cooler master master care pro 6, CM lite 600W, CM Master fan air flow RGB fans, CM Masterliquid 240, Samsung 950 EVO NVME 500GB, Seagate 2 TB HDD, ACER XB241h, Logitech g502, Logitech G 413, Logitech G35, Razer vespula. :) 

 

Ok, here is my question for you guys, I got my rig back in 2017 August, My CPU runs pretty toasty its always hot. Now it has got worse hitting temps upto 97 C in stress test. So, I was just wonder is it time to change the cooler? Please suggest me on how to fix the hotness problem of my CPU.

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22 minutes ago, GamerSusbs13 said:

Ok, here is my question for you guys, I got my rig back in 2017 August, My CPU runs pretty toasty its always hot. Now it has got worse hitting temps upto 97 C in stress test. So, I was just wonder is it time to change the cooler? Please suggest me on how to fix the hotness problem of my CPU.

 

I would use a can of compressed air and dust the PC and clean the fan filters if your case has them, I would replace the thermal compound on the system and see if that solves your overheating issue, if you don't want to have to change thermal compound often or experience cooling performance degradation due to the thermal paste, maybe get a CPU thermal pad instead of traditional thermal paste.

Hope this information post was helpful  ?,

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How are you stress testing and what's core voltage at under load? What's the pump and fan rpm at? Have you tried reseating the cooler? 

What were load temps before? Are you running stock speeds or oc'ing?

Thermal paste will generally last a few years without much performance degradation due to thermal cycling / pump out. 

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On 5/21/2020 at 2:28 AM, WoodenMarker said:

How are you stress testing and what's core voltage at under load? What's the pump and fan rpm at? Have you tried reseating the cooler? 

What were load temps before? Are you running stock speeds or oc'ing?

Thermal paste will generally last a few years without much performance degradation due to thermal cycling / pump out. 

Cinebench R20 and AIDA64extreme. Let me capture the other details and get back to you. 

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