Good day,
Long story short I was recently cleaning my case before installing a new GPU and very spectacularly hit the fan blade of my cpu cooler with the nozzle of the compu-cleaner. A fan blade snapped off. I booted my system up just to see if it was possible and my cores were running at 97-100c. I turned off pretty immediately. So I bought a new Alpine 17 LP cooler. It's basically an 'enhanced stock cooler' I wanted something of similar dimensions as I suck at changing parts however my system had been doing fine for 2+ years on a basic intel stock but this new cooler is giving me huge fluctuations on the desktop 29-62 I've seen and just resting on the menu screen of multiple games it's all cores in the 90's.
I'm wondering if I had this thing installed properly. I removed all old paste from my cpu with a proper thermal paste remover (arcticlean) and placed the cooler down. Now here's the thing, this Alpine cooler came with some pre-applied thermal paste, it looked like a big grey circle. I'd never seen that before so I put it down. Could my issue be this default pre-applied paste? It wasn't dried out or hard. Also when trying to put the 4 pins down and locked I'm not 100% sure they're all locked, there always seems to be 1 corner that has a little wobble and when I readjust it another corner gets a little give, I've tried individually and two at a time diagonally, looked behind motherboard and the pins do seem to be through and look like they're all equal distance through but I don't know.... The internet also seems to give conflicting info on where the arrows on the 4 clips should be facing....
I've installed a stock cooler before which is basically almost what this is and I remember it being pretty dummy proof so I'm not sure what's wrong here.
Long story short I was recently cleaning my case before installing a new GPU and very spectacularly hit the fan blade of my cpu cooler with the nozzle of the compu-cleaner. A fan blade snapped off. I booted my system up just to see if it was possible and my cores were running at 97-100c. I turned off pretty immediately. So I bought a new Alpine 17 LP cooler. It's basically an 'enhanced stock cooler' I wanted something of similar dimensions as I suck at changing parts however my system had been doing fine for 2+ years on a basic intel stock but this new cooler is giving me huge fluctuations on the desktop 29-62 I've seen and just resting on the menu screen of multiple games it's all cores in the 90's.
I'm wondering if I had this thing installed properly. I removed all old paste from my cpu with a proper thermal paste remover (arcticlean) and placed the cooler down. Now here's the thing, this Alpine cooler came with some pre-applied thermal paste, it looked like a big grey circle. I'd never seen that before so I put it down. Could my issue be this default pre-applied paste? It wasn't dried out or hard. Also when trying to put the 4 pins down and locked I'm not 100% sure they're all locked, there always seems to be 1 corner that has a little wobble and when I readjust it another corner gets a little give, I've tried individually and two at a time diagonally, looked behind motherboard and the pins do seem to be through and look like they're all equal distance through but I don't know.... The internet also seems to give conflicting info on where the arrows on the 4 clips should be facing....
I've installed a stock cooler before which is basically almost what this is and I remember it being pretty dummy proof so I'm not sure what's wrong here.