Posted January 1, 2021 hello guys, getting straight to the point i was undervolting my i5 9300h on lenovo y540 using throttlestop. After undervolting i realise that only one core gets very hot(which triggered Prochot at 98C). I already changed my paste twice now with making sure the heatsink properly mounted. However undervolting really improves thermal ( i was getting above 90C on all cores before undervolt), it just this one core seems to be doing a lot of hard work XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1, 2021 Author On quick note, on Turbo Ratio Limit, i changed all on 4.0 but still, only one core gets hotter than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1, 2021 Probably lemon heatsink or thermal paste issue Desktop specs: Spoiler AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6 Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2, 2021 @angramainyu I agree with @genexis_x The cores are equally loaded in your screenshot. A 20°C difference between the first two cores is almost always a sign of a heatsink that is not sitting square to the CPU cores or the thermal paste needs to be replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2, 2021 4 hours ago, unclewebb said: A 20°C difference between the first two cores is almost always a sign of a heatsink that is not sitting square to the CPU cores or the thermal paste needs to be replaced. It's quite common in Y540. That's why I'm suspecting. Desktop specs: Spoiler AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6 Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 5, 2021 If you already repasted twice and still have the same issue, it's probably your heatsink. Also had the same problem with Y530, but the temp difference is not as high as yours (mine is around 10c). And same like you, core 1 and core 3 are hotter than 2 and 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 5, 2021 So what is OP supposed to do now? RMA? Sand it down? (jk) The direction tells you... the direction. -Scott Manley, 2021 Softwares used: Corsair Link (Anime Edition) MSI Afterburner OpenRGB Lively Wallpaper OBS Studio Shutter Encoder Avidemux FSResizer Audacity VLC WMP GIMP HWiNFO64 Paint 3D Paint GitHub Desktop Superposition Prime95 Aida64 GPUZ CPUZ Generic Logviewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 9, 2021 Author On 1/2/2021 at 12:12 PM, unclewebb said: @angramainyu I agree with @genexis_x The cores are equally loaded in your screenshot. A 20°C difference between the first two cores is almost always a sign of a heatsink that is not sitting square to the CPU cores or the thermal paste needs to be replaced. so my heatsink is a defect unit ? im gonna try using themal pads and put it around its ihs and paste in the middle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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