cooling system tips

[kresa3333]

Hey guys first of all i got my PC for 3 years without replacing anything. I am having serious cpu heating problems ( which i found out by asking on this site as well) and i wanted to ask you guys about few things before going to the shop and buying a "solution" .
First of all i got the same cooling for 3 years , 1 fan connected to the side of my pc (COOLER MASTER A12025 120mm) and on top of the cpu the cooling (device) (Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler).
1) I noticed that the fans and the metal are very dusty and i was thinking can it go back to cooling the way it used to if i clean it well? ( with compressed air etc) , this will save me alot of trouble! ^^
2) since its an AMD cpu (3+ years old) can it be that its dieing and buying new cooling wont help anyhow? I hope it cant be the case but i wanna make sure before buying new cooling system (its getting close to 70c and by googling around i noticed it should be around 55c!)

What do you think guys? Thanks from advance!

 

[RobCrezz]

Does you case have Dust filters? If so you could run a positive pressure setup, with more intakes than exhaust which will reduce the dust.

 

[RobCrezz]

CPU getting warm might just be it needs the thermal paste replacing.

 

[lewisaro1]

clean the case out of dust with compressed air, then check that all of the fans are working and connected, try and position them so you have cold air coming in from the front and warm air pushing out of the back / towards the top (unless your case design wont allow it) you could look into getting an after market cooler for your cpu but i would just re apply the thermal paste (use a rice sized amount!) and see what your temps are like then make a judgement from that.

 

[brarboy]

Agree with @RobCrezz.
You might want to take off your cpu heat-stink and clean it with compressed air. Remove the previously applied thermal paste with non-static cloth properly. Reapply thermal paste and install cpu heat stink.
According to bit-tech:

It’s better to get hot air out of your case than to pump cool air in, particularly when it comes to CPU cooling.

 

[RobCrezz]

Agree with @RobCrezz.
You might want to take off your cpu heat-stink and clean it with compressed air. Remove the previously applied thermal paste with non-static cloth properly. Reapply thermal paste and install cpu heat stink.
According to bit-tech:

It’s better to get hot air out of your case than to pump cool air in, particularly when it comes to CPU cooling.

Very true, worse for dust though

 

[brarboy]

Agree with @RobCrezz.
You might want to take off your cpu heat-stink and clean it with compressed air. Remove the previously applied thermal paste with non-static cloth properly. Reapply thermal paste and install cpu heat stink.
According to bit-tech:

It’s better to get hot air out of your case than to pump cool air in, particularly when it comes to CPU cooling.

Very true, worse for dust though

yup indeed, lets hope that resolves his problem.

 

[kresa3333]

Hey guys thanks you for all the replays,
I cleaned up the dust and used thermal paste again and now it seems to heat less.
But the problem i been having still aint fixed ( my pc restarts itself alone while playing games )
I was using a program to monitor temperature, and in the last 2 times that my PC restarted itself both the GPU and the CPU were on normal temperature ( not more then 55c at worst ).
So now i totaly lost about the reason behind this, maybe its the PSU after all?

 

[RobCrezz]

It could be the PSU. Have you checked GPU temps also while in game?

 

[lewisaro1]

Yeah sounds like a PSU problem, what make and wattage do you have?

 

[kresa3333]

i got gtx460 1gb graphic card
amd phenom x4 955 3.2Ghz cpu
seasonic ss-500et 500 watt PSU
transced ddr3 1333 2gb x2 memory

also : once i lower my settings low enough ( usuely playing in a small window mode ) it stops restarting!
i also trying now OCCT program and on the power suplay test i got my pc restart after only 10seconds!

It surely feels like PSU no? but hmm can it be something else? like some bad wire? or maybe the fact i got many connections into 1 area in the wall with many spliters ( altough i had no issue with this for 3 years ^^). I wanna be as sure as i can be before buying a new PSU and then finding out its not the poblem after all ^^.

P.S GPU temp while gaming was low every time it happened! ( 55c-65c~ ) - used HWinfo logging report to track it on the restart event.

Also if its indeed the PSU you think another "seasonic ss-500et 500 watt PSU" will be ok? ( I affraid about buying a PSU without connections/Pins i might be needing )

Thanks alot again!

 

[RobCrezz]

Check GPU temps in game.

 

[brarboy]

Power Supply degrade in power as time pass by. Also minimum recommendation psu for your system is 500 watts. Just test your psu, how much power it is providing to you and how much consumption your pc does.

 

[kresa3333]

ok i bought new PSU and tested it on the same program for 2 min so far no restart , i really hope it was indeed the PSU and the new 1 fixed it , because well it aint so cheap + took me a while to install it , such a bad PC design ^^ , next time i buy a PC i will make sure that its easy to work with hardware wise.
So for conclusion thanks for all the help and hopefully all is ok now : )

 

[brarboy]

ok i bought new PSU and tested it on the same program for 2 min so far no restart , i really hope it was indeed the PSU and the new 1 fixed it , because well it aint so cheap + took me a while to install it , such a bad PC design ^^ , next time i buy a PC i will make sure that its easy to work with hardware wise.
So for conclusion thanks for all the help and hopefully all is ok now : )

good luck, hope your problem doesn't bother you any more