AMD Stock cooler overheating over 100 degrees

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On 18/02/2017 at 0:20 AM, Senpai_Jaayy said:

Can you recommend a good one between 10~20 bucks please?

 

Agreed on the new cooler but a stock cooler should not be performing like that. Have you had the cooler off and not seated it correctly?

[Godlygamer23]

5 hours ago, JohnBRoark said:

The only thing thermal compound does is transfer heat to an actual heat sink. I've used systems before with no thermal paste at all that worked just fine (though I'd never recommend it.) Having much better thermal paste will do little to nothing to actually improve the preformance of your heatsink. Thermal compound also doesn't really age badly, unless it's caked in dust. 

The function of thermal paste is to fill in any imperfections that exist between the CPU cooler base and the heat spreader. It fills in the gaps that air would otherwise take up. However, if the thermal paste is dried up, it's not really going to help much. The performance will be affected when not using thermal paste due to the comment within this post about the air gaps - thermal paste also does contribute to the thermal conductivity, just not in a way that's inherently important to the consumer. 

Edited February 19, 2017 by Godlygamer23