Hello,
Bare with me here, a bit of a story, but I'll try to keep it short. i7-6700K, Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 and Corsair H100i GTX. So I updated to BIOS ver. F20, turned out it had a bug that messed up the vcore voltage and temps were getting out of control, I was hitting 100C at one point. Managed to implement some voltage offsets that helped.
4 Months later, version F21. Finally the issue is fixed, or at least seems that way. I still had heat issues. Turned out the OEM paste that came with my corsair closed loop liquid cooling system turned to clay. I had spare Arctic Silver 5 that had been laying around for at least 5 years. Put that on, temps were now back to normal.
Now as time goes on, my idle temps keep getting worse again, and I start hitting into the 80C when gaming sometimes (normal would only hit 70C and would be in 65C area). I re-applied thermal paste again, temps went back to normal again for a few days, but again my idles are now climbing and max temps are spiking to 80C-90C web browsing.
I thought maybe it was the thermal paste being old and laying around for so long. So I bought new thermal paste (more Arctic Silver 5), but it seems to be doing the same thing. Temps normalize for a few days and then temps start climbing again and I'm spiking 80C-90C.
I'm not sure why this keeps happening, and why it normalizes for a few days each time I apply fresh thermal paste. Is my processor just messed up from the high temps now?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to further troubleshoot this?
Thanks.
Bare with me here, a bit of a story, but I'll try to keep it short. i7-6700K, Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 and Corsair H100i GTX. So I updated to BIOS ver. F20, turned out it had a bug that messed up the vcore voltage and temps were getting out of control, I was hitting 100C at one point. Managed to implement some voltage offsets that helped.
4 Months later, version F21. Finally the issue is fixed, or at least seems that way. I still had heat issues. Turned out the OEM paste that came with my corsair closed loop liquid cooling system turned to clay. I had spare Arctic Silver 5 that had been laying around for at least 5 years. Put that on, temps were now back to normal.
Now as time goes on, my idle temps keep getting worse again, and I start hitting into the 80C when gaming sometimes (normal would only hit 70C and would be in 65C area). I re-applied thermal paste again, temps went back to normal again for a few days, but again my idles are now climbing and max temps are spiking to 80C-90C web browsing.
I thought maybe it was the thermal paste being old and laying around for so long. So I bought new thermal paste (more Arctic Silver 5), but it seems to be doing the same thing. Temps normalize for a few days and then temps start climbing again and I'm spiking 80C-90C.
I'm not sure why this keeps happening, and why it normalizes for a few days each time I apply fresh thermal paste. Is my processor just messed up from the high temps now?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to further troubleshoot this?
Thanks.