[SOLVED] Cpu overheating like crazy on new gaming build

[mixengas]

So I’m new to pc gaming and didn’t have any experience building one but I did anyways. It went pretty well I think but my cpu is overheating like crazy. In a matter of minutes it goes to 90c and I haven’t got passed the bios. My friend gave me his old mother board (ASROCK fatal1ty z97 killer) and it has a i7-4790k with 16gb vengeance LP DDR3. I know it should work fine cause he was using it 3 weeks prior. He got a new one for Christmas. He gave me the motherboard with all of this plugged in and I didn’t mess with the fan. At first I though that it must be a mistake cause I’m only just in the bios. But I felt the back of the mobo and it’s hot soooo. Not sure if this could be anything but maybe needing a new fan even tho he said it worked in his set up.

 

[punkncat]

Did you reseat the cooler?

It sounds like you may need to get some good paste and cleaner. Take off the cooler, clean the CPU, re-apply new paste, and then reseat the cooler and see if the issue resolves.

As a side note...good friend to give you such a capable core. Where that isn't new, it's still very much within spec to game well.