Temp paranoia

Forum discussion tagged with Temp paranoia.
  1. xTiddi

    Question Ryzen 7 7700 non-X

    So I am using an ID cooling 360mm zoomflow, previously using the pre-applied thermal paste, I idle around 50-53c. (Disclaimer, I live in a humid environment no AC for now 30-40c ambient). And that's fine. I upgraded my GPU, and thought "hey, I'll just repaste while I'm at it, it's a good...
  2. Mugsy

    Question Has anyone compared "blower" fans vs overhead fan effectiveness?

    I'm looking to get a new video card. I've always preferred "blower" fans that blow air across the card and exhaust heat out the back of the computer vs "overhead" fans that blow straight down on the card (often with another card next to it blocking the fans) and dissipate the heat back into the...
  3. K

    Question RTX 2060 Temp

    Hey everyone. I just had a question. I bought D4 2 weeks ago and I've noticed my GPU isnt "liking" it within the first 24hrs I noticed an increase in my fan speed to the point I could hear it but that could've been any fan in my system right??? I wasn't monitoring it. Then I went back to play...
  4. S

    [SOLVED] Should I clean off excess thermal paste?

    So I might have gone a little overboard since I'd rather have too much instead of too little. I didn't think about the heatsink wouldn't cover the whole chip so I guess I should have put it on the heatsink like the instructions said but now I have excess on parts of the cpu not covered. Should I...
  5. J

    Question Temps just got 10-20C higher

    So I have this lenovo legion y540 laptop and I am ussually playing with turbo boost turned off to keep the temps pretty low. So I ussually get temps max. 67C but yesterday I noticed that temps are between 70-80C while playing the same game. This happened overnight. Yesterday after seeing the...