So recently my computer has been overheating, I turned it on this morning to see what temperature it booted at. RealTemp showed it to start at around 55-60 degrees C, normally I would expect it to be at this while playing games. It's about a year old machine now but it was working fine a week ago. No stress at all, around 50 degrees while playing League of Legends, now all of a sudden it boots up at 60 and within 10 minutes of idling it hits 105+ degrees C, seems a bit odd that this could happen all of a sudden, if anything I'd expect the temperature to go up gradually, over the course of a few years. Before I spend $20 on new thermal paste, does anybody have any solutions as to why it would hit such a high temperature so suddenly? I wouldn't even think the thermal paste would make the CPU hit that temperature.
- I have not overclocked or changed anything I do on the computer over the last few months.
This is what I think could be wrong:
- Thermal paste needs to be re-applied. (Seems to sudden to be thermal paste though)
- Somethings happened to the heat sink somehow and may need to be replaced (Seems fine though)
- Voltages need to be changed (Not sure how to do this, and why would it happen all of a sudden.
- I have not overclocked or changed anything I do on the computer over the last few months.
This is what I think could be wrong:
- Thermal paste needs to be re-applied. (Seems to sudden to be thermal paste though)
- Somethings happened to the heat sink somehow and may need to be replaced (Seems fine though)
- Voltages need to be changed (Not sure how to do this, and why would it happen all of a sudden.