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Whosonicus
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I got a new heatsink and thermal paste for my CPU.

I removed old heatsink along with thermal paste.

applied thermal past and put heatsink on.

As I looked at my temps, it didn't change much. In fact it actually increased by ~3 degrees C.

What I think is because I put way to much thermal paste.

so tomorrow I'm planning to reapply. so it got me thinking. do I really have to remove the thermal paste? (Negative effects? Positive effects?)

 

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Cooler Master Hyper T2

MX-2 Thermal paste

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That would remove it as possible issue. What are your temps, what was the load and which program you use to monitor them?

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Maybe old cooler wasnt sooo bad hehe xD

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5 hours ago, RS2007GOD said:

Maybe old cooler wasnt sooo bad hehe xD

I'm thinking more that its idle temp thats different. And you of all people should know how unrealiable AMD sensors are at idle temps ;)

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3 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I'm thinking more that its idle temp thats different. And you of all people should know how unrealiable AMD sensors are at idle temps ;)

 

I use HWmonitor to measure my temps. ~70 degrees C when playing certain games. (settings are low-mid)

CPU temp rises up to ~70 degrees C when bench testing with CPUID.

The CPU temp start to rise when my CPUs load start to hit above 50%.

I blame my thermal paste application skills for this....

 

8 hours ago, RS2007GOD said:

Maybe old cooler wasnt sooo bad hehe xD

 

no no no. it thermal paste fault.

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1 hour ago, Whosonicus said:

I use HWmonitor to measure my temps. ~70 degrees C when playing certain games. (settings are low-mid)

CPU temp rises up to ~70 degrees C when bench testing with CPUID.

The CPU temp start to rise when my CPUs load start to hit above 50%.

I blame my thermal paste application skills for this....

 

no no no. it thermal paste fault.

Those temps are still fine.

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47 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Those temps are still fine.

 

but I'm planning to overclock....

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