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...
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...
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...
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...
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...