Hi, I helped a friend clean is pc, and I had the idea of cleaning the cpu fan also, so I unscrewed the legs and the fan went out with the heatsink (I guess it suppose to), I rememberd that I saw a video saying that whenever you do this you should reapply thermal paste, but I had nearly none, so I just added like a dot to what was already there, then I started the pc and went straight to bios and the cpu temp was going up rapidly and passing 80 cel, I forced a shut down and discovered that one of the legs wasn't all the way down, then I booted again and it was dancing between 54 and 55 cel, the ambeince temp was about 30 so that possibly helped also, the cpu is i3-7100 3.9GHz if it matters. (all the temperature are in celsius)
So,
Is it fine that the cpu is on 55 cel on idle?
Does this specific cpu has a bigger idle temp?
Did any of my stupid doings contributed to this?
Thank you.
(I ordered a thermal paste arctic mx-4 in the meantime)
So,
Is it fine that the cpu is on 55 cel on idle?
Does this specific cpu has a bigger idle temp?
Did any of my stupid doings contributed to this?
Thank you.
(I ordered a thermal paste arctic mx-4 in the meantime)
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