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I recently started hitting very high temps on my PC while gaming/streaming. 90-99C. Then my PC would get 'stuck' and even after closing all my applications, it would not go under 90C. I assumed my H100i liquid cooler had died -- as it has been about 5 years since I bought it.
I replaced it with a temporary air cooler -- Hyper 212 RBG Black. This worked well and kept my temps reasonable, but I would hit 90C once in awhile while gaming/streaming. But it would go back down to normal after closing applications. I was quite sure I did not have the pipes touching the CPU as best I could. Nevertheless this was only meant to last a week.
I got my H100i Pro in today and installed it. Immediately after booting I am at 99C. This is within my BIOS before I can even get to Windows. The PC had been off for hours, how could it immediately hit 99C? I unscrewed the cooler and looked to make sure thermal paste was making contact -- and I could see it was. Pictures below.
I also am hearing a liquid bubbling -- maybe this is how the pump sounds when it is first being used?
What is going on? I feel like my cooler was screwed in properly and everything was plugged in.
View: https://imgur.com/a/Qv67Zm1
Pictures here show my cooler after I removed it (the darker paste is a little bit of my own I put on as I forgot the cooler came with its own. Did not appear to be a problem. I could see the contact was being made with the CPU itself as the paste rubbed off onto it.
The last picture is my CPU fan plug as I wanted to make sure that was correct -- my CPU fan header on the MB has 4 ports, and I plugged it in to the leftmost 3 -- as I believe that was the only way it fit.
What could be going on here?
Is my new H100i Pro DOA? Did my CPU become defective by running at such high temps when my last cooler broke?
I recently started hitting very high temps on my PC while gaming/streaming. 90-99C. Then my PC would get 'stuck' and even after closing all my applications, it would not go under 90C. I assumed my H100i liquid cooler had died -- as it has been about 5 years since I bought it.
I replaced it with a temporary air cooler -- Hyper 212 RBG Black. This worked well and kept my temps reasonable, but I would hit 90C once in awhile while gaming/streaming. But it would go back down to normal after closing applications. I was quite sure I did not have the pipes touching the CPU as best I could. Nevertheless this was only meant to last a week.
I got my H100i Pro in today and installed it. Immediately after booting I am at 99C. This is within my BIOS before I can even get to Windows. The PC had been off for hours, how could it immediately hit 99C? I unscrewed the cooler and looked to make sure thermal paste was making contact -- and I could see it was. Pictures below.
I also am hearing a liquid bubbling -- maybe this is how the pump sounds when it is first being used?
What is going on? I feel like my cooler was screwed in properly and everything was plugged in.
View: https://imgur.com/a/Qv67Zm1
Pictures here show my cooler after I removed it (the darker paste is a little bit of my own I put on as I forgot the cooler came with its own. Did not appear to be a problem. I could see the contact was being made with the CPU itself as the paste rubbed off onto it.
The last picture is my CPU fan plug as I wanted to make sure that was correct -- my CPU fan header on the MB has 4 ports, and I plugged it in to the leftmost 3 -- as I believe that was the only way it fit.
What could be going on here?
Is my new H100i Pro DOA? Did my CPU become defective by running at such high temps when my last cooler broke?