Recent content by dan_jenkinson

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    [SOLVED] Could applying more thermal paste reduce core temps and improve performance?

    Update: took pc apart as much as I could and blasted the shit out of it with compressed air. Managed to remove old thermal paste and apply more going off all the replies in here. And it's still fucked. Anyone have anymore suggestions? I can hear the fans start spinning super fast, as if it's...
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    [SOLVED] Could applying more thermal paste reduce core temps and improve performance?

    I'm gonna go out in the morning and get some paste and see if i can sort it out. Thanks for your time , i need to go to bed now haha. I'll update tomorrow with results.
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    [SOLVED] Could applying more thermal paste reduce core temps and improve performance?

    I remember using Speccy a little while ago (like 2 -3 months) and seeing temps were reasonable high like 70 ish . Wasn't too concerned as its a reasonably older build. The fan is spinning, and with the water cooling, one pipe is noticeably hotter than the other which i seem to think it how its...
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    [SOLVED] Could applying more thermal paste reduce core temps and improve performance?

    Thanks for the reply, i'm deffo gonna give it a go. Pretty concerned that i shouldn't be using my PC atm as these temps seem to all of a sudden climbed up and probs causing more harm. Operating System Windows 10 Home 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz 88 °C (this climbs to 95...
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    [SOLVED] Could applying more thermal paste reduce core temps and improve performance?

    Never replaced thermal paste as such, and currently have high core temps and performance issues - could this possibly be the problem?
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    Monitor has faint blue lines accross it.

    Having some issues with PC recently, games won't load and just crash with PC restart followed after and just noticed faint blue lines accross my monitor in the background. These also apear in BIOS so think it might be a hardware issue? Temps on PC aren't drasticly high so I think my GPU is on...