So I built in January and my R5 3600 has always had higher temps, idle being from about 35 to 50 and under very high loads it could get up to 80 max. 2 days ago though, I was running an very intensive program and for the few minutes it ran, the temp got up to 87. Now today I was playing COD and I saw my temps GO UP TO 90. I didn't play for more than a few minutes.
Tomorrow I'm going to reapply thermal paste, but I'd really like someone's opinion, is my cpu going to suffer from this? And just to make sure, the reason temps are up now is because thermal paste melted and not because my cpu is like fried now, right?
Edit: So I cleaned the dust off of my fan filters and also adjusted some fan settings in BIOS and apparently everything seems fine now...? I played cod for a while and didn't get higher than 77, ran 3d mark time spy and the max it got to was 81 and i also got the best score I've ever had 🤷♀️ The only thing is my idle temp seems to never get below 43 now.
Tomorrow I'm going to reapply thermal paste, but I'd really like someone's opinion, is my cpu going to suffer from this? And just to make sure, the reason temps are up now is because thermal paste melted and not because my cpu is like fried now, right?
Edit: So I cleaned the dust off of my fan filters and also adjusted some fan settings in BIOS and apparently everything seems fine now...? I played cod for a while and didn't get higher than 77, ran 3d mark time spy and the max it got to was 81 and i also got the best score I've ever had 🤷♀️ The only thing is my idle temp seems to never get below 43 now.
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