Thermal Paste

My Core rig is 5 years old. sporting a i5 4690K. I just dropped a new RX 5700 XT graphics card in and thought about putting some fresh thermal paste on the CPU. But When testing under heavy load My max core Temp Hit was 53C... Do I even bother? I use a cooler master Hyper N520 cooler. case fans...

So my XFX RX 570 started to overheat due to dried out thermal paste (yes I am sure) and I am about to replace it but currently I got this thermal paste: View: https://imgur.com/a/QCDljHz Is that thermal paste worth using 9n my precious GPU? Will it help my GPU run cooler? Is it safe? I...

Hello everyone, I have recently noticed that my XFX RX 570's temps go as high at 75 C even without increasing the power limit and running it at 1120 MHz, And even if I increase the fan speed it doesn't lower the GPU's temps, This problem started happening after I replaced the GPU's cooler...

I an building my pc and I realized after I installed my Deepcool Gammaxx GT cooler that it was crooked. It got late while I was working on it so I figured I would fix it later and I had to work the next few days so I came back to it several days later and I tried twisting it with moderate...

Hi. CPU : core i5 9600k Cooler : cooler master hyper 212 led (thermal paste included) Motherboard : gigabyte z390 gaming x. Q : How much thermal paste needed? and how to apply? Note : i don't have graphic card, HDD, optical drive. only have SSD. can i start the system? or need to buy graphic...

I accidentally bought 70% Ethyl Alcohol instead of the Isopropyl Alcohol. I am wondering if it is fine to use to clean off thermal compound off my CPU.

Hi guys, My friend has recently attempted to build his first gaming PC, only to get a small amount of thermal paste stuck in his CPU socket and on his CPU. After a BIOS update, he managed to get his computer to post long enough to install Windows and a couple of programs, only for the computer...

Hey all, so today i realised i had to re-apply my thermal paste on my cpu but now the pc wont boot properly. In more detail, I saw my temps were over 60 C while doing nothing on my pc and went out bought thermal paste, came back took everything apart. I also have to add i removed my cpu to clean...

So, I have a terrible dell motherboard that came with my prebuilt. I upgraded everything in the pc, so now I have a CX650M, GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition, an i5 7400 which came with the prebuilt and the regular Dell tower case. The RAM I had was 8GB (2*4) GB and it was made by an unfamiliar...

i currently have a CM X Dream i117 cooling my CPU (i5 6600 non K) , but since this summer , my CPU Temps were really high , running at 90-100°C even when idling So knowing that shipping prices are always the same and that i don't have any PC hardware stores nearby , Should I : 1- Buy a new CPU...

I bought an i7 3770K but it came stained with thermal paste, although the rear of the CPU is clean (shown in pictures) Is it safe to put it in the motherboard? It won't explode? I don't want to Removed up the CPU or the Mobo, or both. Please help. View: https://imgur.com/lxU140k View...

Hi, I recently bought this thermal paste in order to pass my cpu and lower the temperature, I have a video card purchased a few months and that heats up too, reaching 80 ° C in the heaviest games, it is worth it change the thermal paste of the video card for this? View: https://imgur.com/cZIBxkr

Hi, Below are my system specs - MOTHERBOARD (Chipset - Z370) = Asus TUF Z370 PRO gaming CPU(Socket - LGA 1151) = i7 8700 GPU = ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Twin Fan RAM = Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR 4 SSD = Samsung 750 evo 120GB HDD = Seagate Barracuda(Green) ST1000DM010-2EP102 1TB PSU =...

I installed a new CPU / Liquid Cooler yesterday (9900k & NZXT X72). After fastening on the NZXT heatsink, I realized my RAM would not fit due to the position of the heatsink’s water tubes. So, I lifted off the heatsink, rotated 90degrees, and re-fixed it down. Unfortunately, that orientation...

So ive been playing the new call of duty and i had noticed my GPU clock speed kept lowering itself even though i have set the GPU to run at maximum clock speed from the nvidia control panel. The GPU in question is a watercooled Aorus RTX 2080 super. It hits 77 degrees Celsius and does not...

I applied thermal paste on CPU. After few days PC restarts and cabinet & CPU becomes too HOT. This happens in the middle of game Fifa 20(I only play fifa). Everything just works fine pc restarts only during gaming due to overheating. When I take out processor I found some paste spread over pins...

about a month ago I upgraded my GPU to a GTX 1660 ti and added more RAM. everything was fine until a 2 days ago when my screens would shut off but my systems fans would start spinning very loudly. at first, it was when i was playing a game but now it does it randomly while playing the temp...

Hello. I have had my computer for 7 years now, I built it in anticipation for Diablo 3 in 2012. It was a Windows 7 that later "upgraded" to Windows 10. My CPU is an Intel i7 2600k Sandy Bridge and I have only very mildly overclocked it over the years. I never used the stock heatsink and fan at...

So I removed and dusted my whole PC with X Power A-2 Airrow and then cleaned and reapplied thermal paste. It turned on and was working right after I finished and when I turned it off to move it to a different spot, it didn’t boot into windows and has constantly boot looped since. If needed I...

Hi, So I'm building my first pc and my CPU air cooler comes with it's own thermal paste(in a syringe, not pre-applied). But I also bought quite expensive, 8 eur Arctic Silver 5 paste. Now which paste should i use? The CPU cooler is here...

View: https://imgur.com/a/QobwO3W - link to photos

Do Cooler Master MasterAir CPU coolers come with thermal paste? I can't find the answer on their site.

before I ask the main question, I'm wondering am I freaking out too much? I'm legit so scared right now that even a milligram of difference might screw up the entire system. I've heard people not being able to boot into windows, and is able to boot successfully after they reapplied thermal...

I just bought some used hardware as a bundle, i5-4690k, 2x 8 GB ram, and be quiet! cooler (Shadow Rock LP i think), to replace my 8 gb ram and i3-4170 with its factory cooler. The i5 has no thermal paste on it, the i3 had some from the factory (was like 3-4 years old). After the change I...

I just got a 2600x and was noticing my temps were a bit high so I took off the CPU fan and reinstalled it. Idk if i have to reapply the thermal paste or not because this all took place in the span of like 3 hours. I should add that after reinstalling the fan my CPU speed was below (2.5Ghz) the...

Is this enough or did I use too much thermal paste on my laptop? View: https://imgur.com/H08bRBO

Never replaced thermal paste as such, and currently have high core temps and performance issues - could this possibly be the problem?

I was replacing my thermal paste on my Asus 980 ti Strix OC and I got a bit of the stock paste in the little circuits surrounding the GPU. I'm just wondering if that is alright and I'm not too sure if the stock paste is electrically conductive.

I had a overflowing thermal paste on cpu issue, so I took it in to the shop to check it out. They are telling me I need to replace both the motherboard and my graphics card, because "thermal paste got in the teeth of the gpu, shorting it out". Is this possible? Or is it a sales tactic? I cant...

Hello friends I need a thermal paste better and it can take longer time than these two for my laptop. It will be used to render video 4k in after effects. Who is better and can take longer time thermal paste Grizzly Kryonaut or Arctic? I hope you help me to choose better thermal for my laptop...

I applied thermal paste, then booted my PC back up. I found all my drivers uninstalled, then reinstalled them. I opened up CS:GO and found I was maxing around 30 fps. Normally I would get around 100-80 fps all game modes and maps. Even League Of Legends was Max at 30 fps. Before I would get...

http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/cooling/high-performance/high-performance-thermal-paste.html I purchased it last week and have had no issues, but I was wondering if it is safe in the event that I may have applied too much? I have heard that certain thermal pastes can cause...

I am new to pc building. I currently have a i9 9900k, z390 pro mobo, cooler master 240 aio with 2 attached 120mm fans, 5 additional 120mm fans (3 corsair ll 120, 2 cooler master 120mm) and a 140mm rear exhaust. I have 16gbs of ddr4 ram GeForce gtx 970 and a corsair rm 850x PSU. I somehow figured...

So here's the whole story. I was trying to repair this laptop i.e. Lenovo B560. It had lagging issues. The way it was lagging, I was pretty sure it was cause of tons of viruses in it. So I started installing a fresh windows on it. And after that, when I was about to install the antivirus, I...

Hi! just replaced my dell precision 5510 laptop's motherboard with a new one because it was said to be malfunctions by the dell lab here. the new one started off great, but after a while (about two hours of installations and updates) it showed a blue screen of windows, said there was a problem...

(Hi, I'm pretty new to PC maintenance and have never built a PC before so apologies for any noob moments in advance. :ouimaitre:) PC specs I could find - G6 Fusion 600 X2 - 6 Core AMD Gaming PCCase: G6 Vantage Red (ATX) Processor (CPU): AMD FX 6300 (6x 3.50GHz) AM3+ Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE -...

My laptop CPU get in high 80s when gaming for a while, due to the surface it’s on. My glass desk doesn’t allow it to get air very well, if I put it on it’s back and let it get more air from my room, my temps decrease by around 10°C. I will try and get both thermal paste and a cooling pad but for...

Hello everyone. Recently, I just bought a tube of Arctic MX-4 thermal paste to re-apply on my graphics card. But today I just found out that I already got a tube of Arctic Silver 5 in my house. The AS5 must have been not less than 5 years old now from when I recall buying it. The package has...

I bought an i5 8400 back when it was first released. Since then i have been having heating issues with cpu temp going to 90 degrees Celsius and above. After turning off the turbo boost from bios resolved the issue. I think it could be improper installation and it had preapplied thermal paste on...

So today i bought a new CPU cooler whose seal was opened by shopkeeper to show me contents of box. When i opened the box at home i saw that thermal paste on that stock cooler was little yellowish in colour and looks dirty and applied more than what should be. Manufacturing is mid 2018. Can...