CPU temps

[Ymenoa]

Hello everyone,

after a 2 months hiatus away from my computer, took my computer back yesterday in the afternoon.
It's been moved a bit around, so I was wondering if some parts moved during that. So I took my beast for a test run yesterday.
After playing some games for 5-10 minutes, first BSOD. Rebooting the PC, multiple BSOD, one after one.
Error code : 0x00000124, so apparently hardware failure.
Here is the crash syslog if you are interested :
 

Log Name:      System

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger

Date:          13/04/2017 23:34:53

Event ID:      18

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      

User:          LOCAL SERVICE

Computer:      MJOLNIR

Description:

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

 

Reported by component: Processor Core

Error Source: Machine Check Exception

Error Type: Internal Timer Error

Processor ID: 0

 

The details view of this entry contains further information.

Event Xml:

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  <System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger" Guid="{C26C4F3C-3F66-4E99-8F8A-39405CFED220}" />

    <EventID>18</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-04-13T21:34:53.335626100Z" />

    <EventRecordID>180869</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation ActivityID="{547FFC19-3403-4C83-B669-936372F9014D}" />

    <Execution ProcessID="1496" ThreadID="1572" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>MJOLNIR</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data Name="ErrorSource">3</Data>

    <Data Name="ApicId">0</Data>

    <Data Name="MCABank">4</Data>

    <Data Name="MciStat">0xbe00000000800400</Data>

    <Data Name="MciAddr">0x66efe181</Data>

    <Data Name="MciMisc">0x66efe181</Data>

    <Data Name="ErrorType">5</Data>

    <Data Name="TransactionType">256</Data>

    <Data Name="Participation">256</Data>

    <Data Name="RequestType">256</Data>

    <Data Name="MemorIO">256</Data>

    <Data Name="MemHierarchyLvl">256</Data>

    <Data Name="Timeout">256</Data>

    <Data Name="OperationType">256</Data>

    <Data Name="Channel">256</Data>

    <Data Name="Length">928</Data>

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  </EventData>

</Event>

 

 

After doing some temperature diagnostics, I've realised that my CPU was reaching 95-100° celsius in-game.
So I told myself that my thermal paste was probably dead, since I haven't changed it for 1 year. My aircooler is a Noctua product, running pretty fine.
I've so changed my thermal paste 1hour ago. Took care to clean well the cooler plate and the cpu, then got some fresh new paste and applied a rice-size of it on the clean cpu plate.

The computer is now running fine, no more BSOD after 45minutes of various games.
My GPU temps are not reaching more than 50 degrees c on the highest game's settings.
On idle, CPU sitting around 45 degrees...
BUT my CPU is still reaching 75-80 degrees when I'm playing a game on the highest settings.
I've cleaned my PC and fans of all the dust (even the cpu aircooler is clean), I really don't know what I can do to lower my CPu temps... pls halp.


My PC configuration :
i7-4790k
Gigabyte GA-Z97x-UD5H
SLi of Gigabyte GTX 770
Noctua aircooler with 2x fans
32Gb of DDR4 RAM

[MVPernula]

Welcome to the forums!

 

The 4790K is a hot chip for sure, it's fine below the 90's.

[mikeeginger]

Hi Welcome to forums please post

In https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/46-troubleshooting/ 

Not in general Discussion 

 

 

Cheers 

[Ymenoa]

Thanks, I've posted the same thread on the troubleshooting forum section.

[michaelocarroll007]

Feel like the Cleaning/ Dusting of the Cooler is what actually fixed your problem here. thermal paste 1 year old shouldnt cause this unless somehow the thermal paste was done wrong to begin with which is rare. Either way doesn't matter too much its fixed which was the goal and you got that