Upgrading PC parts

[Ruttlik]

Hello there,

I bought my current PC almost 3 years ago, but I would like to upgrade some parts (upcoming black friday sales). Note that I have been hitting very high temperatures while gaming (80-90s) and I'm not sure why, is it that a part can't keep up with the rest? or do I just have a bad fan? If you have any questions regarding my specs or anything that I didn't post (I downloaded speccy and just copy pasted) please let me know.

 

Here are my current specs (nothing open):

 

Operating System

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 40 °C

Haswell 22nm Technology

RAM

8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard

MSI Z97 GAMING 3 (MS-7918) (SOCKET 0) 37 °C

Graphics

VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)

VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)

4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI) 59 °C

Storage

232GB Crucial CT250BX100SSD1 ATA Device (SATA (SSD)) 28 °C

931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08Y20A0 ATA Device (SATA ) 29 °C

931GB Western Digital WD Elements 10B8 USB Device (USB (SATA) ) 24 °C

Optical Drives

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224FB ATA Device

Audio

Realtek High Definition Audio

 

 

[Brooksie359]

What is hitting 80-90c? Also what is the question you want answered as I am having a hard time figuring out what you want help with. 

[Ruttlik]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

What is hitting 80-90c? Also what is the question you want answered as I am having a hard time figuring out what you want help with. 

Thanks for your reply,

Both my CPU and GPU are hitting those temperatures. Why is my PC hitting those temperatures while gaming and what can I upgrade to both fix that and improve the performance of my PC?

[Brooksie359]

7 minutes ago, Ruttlik said:

Thanks for your reply,

Both my CPU and GPU are hitting those temperatures. Why is my PC hitting those temperatures while gaming and what can I upgrade to both fix that and improve the performance of my PC?

Is this a recent occurrence or something that has been a long standing issue? It could be that you need to reapply thermal paste as this usually needs to be done as things get older. 

[Ruttlik]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

Is this a recent occurrence or something that has been a long standing issue? It could be that you need to reapply thermal paste as this usually needs to be done as things get older. 

This has been happening for a couple months now, I guess I might just have to replace the thermal paste as it might have worn off after all those years. I will probably buy a tube of some sort and look up a video explaining on how to do it, thanks anyway.

[Brooksie359]

3 minutes ago, Ruttlik said:

This has been happening for a couple months now, I guess I might just have to replace the thermal paste as it might have worn off after all those years. I will probably buy a tube of some sort and look up a video explaining on how to do it, thanks anyway.

Yeah the cpu should be easy but the gpu will be the harder one. You could always upgrade the gpu if you wanted to avoid this or simply live with the temps. 

[asand1]

What CPU cooler, what case, what case fans and where, what GPU model (specifically?)

 

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