Intel CPU Overheating

[trevory323]

My Intel i5 4690K Haswell is reaching 100 degrees celsius. The fan was loose, I re secured it, but to no avail, it still overheats. Curiously however, it doesn't turn off due thermal issues, and doesn't throttle. Programs are laggy and often do not respond. I have a suspicion that it is the fan that is broken, but could it also be the sensor? Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

[Enderman]

you need to replace the thermal paste every time you remount the cooler

[Guest Kloaked]

What cooler are you using for it?

 

Regardless, even the stock cooler should show better results. Replace the thermal compound.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

My Intel i5 4690K Haswell is reaching 100 degrees celsius. The fan was loose, I re secured it, but to no avail, it still overheats. Curiously however, it doesn't turn off due thermal issues, and doesn't throttle. Programs are laggy and often do not respond. I have a suspicion that it is the fan that is broken, but could it also be the sensor? Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

DON'T HAVE YOUR CPU RUNNING AT 100C! It will very quickly kill it what cooler are you using?

[VerticalDiscussions]

Also its unlikely that the motherboard sensors would be damaged and the cpu voltage regulation neither.

[Sharif]

Try diferent app

Change toothpaste 

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

My Intel i5 4690K Haswell is reaching 100 degrees celsius. The fan was loose, I re secured it, but to no avail, it still overheats. Curiously however, it doesn't turn off due thermal issues, and doesn't throttle. Programs are laggy and often do not respond. I have a suspicion that it is the fan that is broken, but could it also be the sensor? Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

if programs are laggy, it probably is thermally throttling.

I'd recommend removing the heatsink fully and reinstalling it with new thermal compound (reusing thermal compound results in bubbles, which are BAD). when thermal compound is squeezed out from a line or dot in the center, it squeezes out bubbles as well. I prefer the thin vertical line method for intel quad and dual cores, as they are a long vertical chip beneath the IHS.

[Majestic]

DON'T HAVE YOUR CPU RUNNING AT 100C! It will very quickly kill it what cooler are you using?

 

Brah, Intel has very good thermal protection. It will not die so quickly.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Try diferent app

Change toothpaste 

LOL

I've heard that actually works in a pinch. I really need to try that to compare temps on my system.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Brah, Intel has very good thermal protection. It will not die so quickly.

Then why would it be it's not thermal throttling? I reckon the temp sensor is dead.

[trevory323]

What cooler are you using for it?

 

Regardless, even the stock cooler should show better results. Replace the thermal compound.

Using stock cooler, I don't have spare paste. It shouldn't be hitting 100C even with old paste on anyways should it?

[trevory323]

Then why would it be it's not thermal throttling? I reckon the temp sensor is dead.

Well I don't think its throttling, not sure, because my frequencies are normal, its still clocking up to 3.0 and up.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Temp sensors dead.

[VerticalDiscussions]

Temp sensors dead.

Temp sensors are very well made but it can happen pretty rarely.

[trevory323]

Temp sensors dead.

Then what's the lag? It sometimes goes down to 80-90 if i put another external fan (like a fan for people), but shoots back up to 100 after some time.

[trevory323]

Temp sensors are very well made but it can happen pretty rarely.

And if its the temp sensor, could it be the motherboard one, cpu one or both?

[VerticalDiscussions]

And if its the temp sensor, could it be the motherboard one, cpu one or both?

Could be both but mostlikely motherboard.

[trevory323]

Could be both but mostlikely motherboard.

Thats what i thought, because CPU's are damage resiistent from physical movement from what i've heard.

[Guest Kloaked]

Using stock cooler, I don't have spare paste. It shouldn't be hitting 100C even with old paste on anyways should it?

 

But if you've taken the cooler off at all, even just a little bit you need to replace it. Air pockets could be separating the cooler from the CPU.

[runit3]

In b4 auto-OC'd with software >_>

Using stock cooler, I don't have spare paste. It shouldn't be hitting 100C even with old paste on anyways should it?

It shouldn't be, provided you haven't removed it and then reattached it without cleaning off the old thermal paste and applying new paste. If you're actively viewing the temperature and it is rising/falling the temp sensor is not blown, a blown temp sensor will have a static or null reading.

 

You are, in all likelihood, thermal throttling the shit out of your CPU and you will blow it eventually if you don't reduce the voltage manually for core and replace the TIM/stock cooler.

 

If you're hell bent on running your CPU without new TIM, at the very least turn down the CPU voltage and clocks.