Hey everyone, hope you're doing well!
I ordered a new CPU cooler for my I7-8700K, the new CPU cooler being the Be Quiet Pure Rock 2. I installed it with a friend, he works at a PC repair shop so does this stuff for a living. I am no stranger to building pc's as well, so we were pretty confident about it.
We managed to install it quite quickly, applied the thermal paste and of course removed the little plastic thing around the cooler. Only after checking the temps I noticed something was off.
I was hitting a 100 degrees just at the Windows 10 boot, so you can imagine my fear during a stress test. I previously had the Antec A30, which really isn't the best cooler but did a way better job.
I have remounted and reapplied the cooler and thermal paste several times, I haven't taken the backplate off though, as tomorrow my new case will be here so the mobo will be taken out anyways. I did manage to make it all a bit less extreme, I can boot my PC without going into the 100's, more like 80/90 max. I still feel like something's off though,
I am kinda running out of options, and while posting this on Reddit has helped a bit, I still am dealing with temps that are too high for me to be comfortable with. I purchased this cooler because of course, I wanted my CPU to be cooler. Could this be related to airflow? Or is it more plausible that the cooler itself is causing the issue, being a hardware fault or a human mistake?
Before you ask, all the fans are spinning and being recognized. Setting the cooler curve to a minimum of 100% doesn't solve the peaks, so right now I have a CPU cooler that from everything I can check, should work better than it does. While typing this my CPU cores are 33/34 degrees celcius, as I am only using my browser. The problems really start once it's starting to get a load of 30/40%, where hiting 70/80 degrees really is not rare right now.
Any help or advice is more than welcome, please do let me know if I can help you by providing info or photo's, I will do my best!
I ordered a new CPU cooler for my I7-8700K, the new CPU cooler being the Be Quiet Pure Rock 2. I installed it with a friend, he works at a PC repair shop so does this stuff for a living. I am no stranger to building pc's as well, so we were pretty confident about it.
We managed to install it quite quickly, applied the thermal paste and of course removed the little plastic thing around the cooler. Only after checking the temps I noticed something was off.
I was hitting a 100 degrees just at the Windows 10 boot, so you can imagine my fear during a stress test. I previously had the Antec A30, which really isn't the best cooler but did a way better job.
I have remounted and reapplied the cooler and thermal paste several times, I haven't taken the backplate off though, as tomorrow my new case will be here so the mobo will be taken out anyways. I did manage to make it all a bit less extreme, I can boot my PC without going into the 100's, more like 80/90 max. I still feel like something's off though,
I am kinda running out of options, and while posting this on Reddit has helped a bit, I still am dealing with temps that are too high for me to be comfortable with. I purchased this cooler because of course, I wanted my CPU to be cooler. Could this be related to airflow? Or is it more plausible that the cooler itself is causing the issue, being a hardware fault or a human mistake?
Before you ask, all the fans are spinning and being recognized. Setting the cooler curve to a minimum of 100% doesn't solve the peaks, so right now I have a CPU cooler that from everything I can check, should work better than it does. While typing this my CPU cores are 33/34 degrees celcius, as I am only using my browser. The problems really start once it's starting to get a load of 30/40%, where hiting 70/80 degrees really is not rare right now.
Any help or advice is more than welcome, please do let me know if I can help you by providing info or photo's, I will do my best!
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