Crazy temperature problem

[Spookas]

Hello,

 

For the past year, I'm still living with my old i3-2120 that has a really strange temperature problem. It is always at 99-100°C (~210°F). Other components are at 20-35°C. I even switched to different mobo this summer,  nothing. It can't be a cooling problem, because every time I boot it up (let's say a cold start in the morning) the temps are showing 90°C and quickly jumps to 100°C. My best uneducated guess that there's something wrong with the chip, not showing the right temps. The worst part is that it throttles the CPU and I stutters everything I do and can't get the full potential out of it. I'm not really willing spend any additional cash on this POS, but if it's a software-side of a problem I'll try to do my best. 

 

Some pics:

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

S

[Derpologist]

What's your cooler?

[Bl00dgod]

did you try to get some "fresh" thermal compound on the cpu?

sometimes there's "bad" compound on the stock coolers or they didnt apply the pads well

[Spookas]

What's your cooler?

Stock one, I don't think it's the problem with it, it used to do the work just fine. I don't imagine myself putting a hyper 212 on this beast.

[psycoUSA]

Hello,

 

For the past year, I'm still living with my old i3-2120 that has a really strange temperature problem. It is always at 99-100°C (~210°F). Other components are at 20-35°C. I even switched to different mobo this summer,  nothing. It can't be a cooling problem, because every time I boot it up (let's say a cold start in the morning) the temps are showing 90°C and quickly jumps to 100°C. My best uneducated guess that there's something wrong with the chip, not showing the right temps. The worst part is that it throttles the CPU and I stutters everything I do and can't get the full potential out of it. I'm not really willing spend any additional cash on this POS, but if it's a software-side of a problem I'll try to do my best. 

 

Some pics:

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

S

try updating the bios and drivers

[SaladFingers]

" It can't be a cooling problem, because every time I boot it up (let's say a cold start in the morning) the temps are showing 90°C and quickly jumps to 100°C. My best uneducated guess that there's something wrong with the chip, not showing the right temps. The worst part is that it throttles the CPU and I stutters everything I do and can't get the full potential out of it"

 

Well, 90C is still dangerously high. There definitely is a problem with your config. Also even if the shown temperature is reported falsely, it still shouldn't trigger any kind of throttling if it's actually not running that hot.

 

You said you switched the motherboard, did you re-apply fresh thermal paste on the CPU?

What CPU cooler are you using? Fan(s) working properly?

What are the temps in the rest of your system? Is there a good amount of airflow going on inside the case?

 

edit: Could you post a screen of HWMonitor like you did above, but with all of the temps for the rest of the parts? You can minimize irrelevant stuff to get it to fit the screen.

[Spookas]

try updating the bios and drivers

I had this in mind, could anyone provide me with a link? For the mobo, everything is up to date.

 

did you try to get some "fresh" thermal compound on the cpu?

sometimes there's "bad" compound on the stock coolers or they didnt apply the pads well

Yes, I did. Same old story.

[Spookas]

" It can't be a cooling problem, because every time I boot it up (let's say a cold start in the morning) the temps are showing 90°C and quickly jumps to 100°C. My best uneducated guess that there's something wrong with the chip, not showing the right temps. The worst part is that it throttles the CPU and I stutters everything I do and can't get the full potential out of it"

 

Well, 90C is still dangerously high. There definitely is a problem with your config. Also even if the shown temperature iss reported falsely, it still shouldn't trigger any kind of throttling if it's actually not running that hot.

 

You said you switched the motherboard, did you re-apply fresh thermal paste on the CPU?

What CPU cooler are you using? Fan(s) working properly?

What are the temps on the rest of your system? Is there a good amount of airflow going on inside the case?

 

 

Sorry for double posting, yes I did everything you listed. I'm running a stock one, everything else runs cool, there's plenty of airflow going into the case, even had the case open for a while, hoping that this was the problem.

[Naijin]

Have you tried an aftermarket cooler, one that performs better than the stock cooler?

[SaladFingers]

Sorry for double posting, yes I did everything you listed. I'm running a stock one, everything else runs cool, there's plenty of airflow going into the case, even had the case open for a while, hoping that this was the problem.

 

Sounds like the issue is most likely isolated on the CPU then. Have you got anything else that fits your socket to try? Could be that the chip is dying, or somehow it's reporting high temps on a lower level. If it's the latter, I'm not very sure how one would go about fixing it. But my guess would be that the CPU is somehow starting to die on you

 

edit: @Naijin Well, the stock cooler is pretty bad but those numbers are unreal. If the stock cooler works as it supposed to, it should still be pretty safe to use even if you don't get high end performance from it.

[Spookas]

Have you tried an aftermarket cooler, one that performs better than the stock cooler?

That's something I haven't tried. But I can't imagine this old i3-2120 overheating so much without an aftermarket solution. Bear in mind that minute after the boot up, it's already at 90 degrees.

[xnoobftw]

Sorry for double posting, yes I did everything you listed. I'm running a stock one, everything else runs cool, there's plenty of airflow going into the case, even had the case open for a while, hoping that this was the problem.

Try clearing CMOS

[Spookas]

Sounds like the issue is most likely isolated on the CPU then. Have you got anything else that fits your socket to try? Could be that the chip is dying, or somehow it's reporting high temps on a lower level. If it's the latter, I'm not very sure how one would go about fixing it. But my guess would be that the CPU is somehow starting to die on you

 

edit: @Naijin Well, the stock cooler is pretty bad but those numbers are unreal. If the stock cooler works as it supposed to, it should still be pretty safe to use even if you don't get high end performance from it.

Yeah, that's what I thought too... ;( 

 

 

Try clearing CMOS

Will try that now.

 

 

EDIT: Jus cleared CMOS and guess what... same thing.

[xnoobftw]

Yeah, that's what I thought too... ;( 

 

 

Will try that now.

 

 

EDIT: Jus cleared CMOS and guess what... same thing.

 

Try physically touching it while the PC is on... Is the heatsink hot af? Heck try booting without the cooler on for like 30~ seconds before shutting down and hold the CPU with your hands and feel whether issit as displayed on the screen

[Snadzies]

While the system is off open your case and grab the CPU cooler and give it a good shake.

It should be very solid and you should be able to really rattle the case with out the cooler budging at all.

I've had a pin on a stock CPU cooler pop out and as such the cooler was not making firm enough contact.

When that happened the CPU would shoot up to around 100c very quickly.