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Build: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700 3.2Ghz 6 core GPU: EVGA SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti 8GB MB: MSI Z390-A Pro Memory: 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200Mhz PSU: EVGA 600 B1 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply I recently moved my pc from home to my apartment and upon setting it...

Yeah I'm considering getting some thermal paste and an actual CPU cooler. I had a lot of trouble trying to correctly reseat the cooler and even when I did, it still seemed loose so you're probably right about the pins. My PC is sitting at 45-55C right now, which I believe is still hotter than it...

My cooler was a little loose so I reseated it and launched my PC, but it's still sitting around 50-60C idle, which is still way too hot.

I tried wiggling the cpu cooler and I noticed that it has a little freedom to tilt in either direction, so I'm going to unplug my pc and reseat it.

Stock cooler, NZXT S340 Elite ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

The air coming out of the case fans is room temperature. The CPU fan also feels about room temperature. As I was doing this, my temp dropped to 65, then increased to 96, then dropped again. Update: the temperature has been holding at around 60C with the case still open.

Done. I have the stock intel cooler and no thermal paste, which I've learned recently was a mistake, however this overheating problem started very recently and I've had this computer for about 3 years, with the most recent change being 2 more sticks of RAM and a new motherboard about 2 months...

I've been monitoring task manager and HWinfo side-by-side for about 15 minutes and I've noticed that my fan speed and temperature will spike from about 85 to 98-100 with no corresponding increase in CPU usage.

HWinfo has my CPU clocked at 4300Mhz [when the base is 3200 and the max is 4600 ]and at an average temperature of 99C out of a max of 100C even with thermal throttling automatically toggled. These readings were taken seconds after signing in to windows and have stayed around these levels for...

1.) These tests were run not long after boot, so I'm not sure how thermal throttling would have affected the results. 2.) The amount of available space between both tests is more or less the same. 3.) Unless the timings changed on their own somehow, both tests have the same settings. CPU-Z and...

I've noticed in the last week or so that my hardware performance when playing games has drastically decreased. Where I once was getting 70-100 frames on high settings, I now hover around 30-40. My GPU drivers are up to date and I've installed all of the motherboard drivers for my board that I...

I recently bought a Gigabyte GA Gaming B8 motherboard, and in the manual, it says it has "Support for AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ and 2-Way AMD CrossFire™ technologies" and an Intel B250 Express chipset. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card. Will this work?