H100i v2 Water Cooling - Too high idle temperatures?

Aug 7, 2018
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Hey guys!
So I recently noticed that my CPU is at around 55-60°C when idling (I literally refreshed the thermal paste 5 minutes before I wrote this post). When I stress the CPU it goes up to easily 95°C. Is there any way I can try to fix it or can I expect the pump being broken? As I switched the thermal paste I also made sure that the cooler block is definitely sitting on the CPU and it's not movable at all, it really sits there.
Another thing that came to my mind: It is insanely hot in my appartment (Opening the Windows etc doesn't really help, it's just hot and nearly impossible to fix as I'm only a student who can't afford insane air conditioning). Could that also effect the degrees of the water cooler? Like if it already intakes "hot" air into the case? It may sound dumb, but that came to my mind earlier.

I'm running an i7 4790K, the Corsair H100i v2 water cooler on an ASUS Maximus VII Hero (No overclocking on the CPU).

Thanks for your help!
 

Lutfij

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1| What are your ambient room temps and where are you located? The world has been seeing a spike in temps(both up and down).
2| Are you on the latest BIOS update for your motherboard?
3| If you're not overclocking on your CPU, what are you working with? Full Auto?
4| Might want to share your full specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

If you're on Windows 10, open up Task Manager and scope out the resource usage tab. If t's abnormally high when idle, you're undergoing a memory leak.
 
Aug 7, 2018
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CPU: i7 4790K
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Hero
Ram: 2x 8GB Kingston DDR3 (Can't find the exact name atm)
SSD/HDD: Samsung Evo SSD 840 (120GB), 1TB HDD, 2TB HDD (Don't remember the names)
GPU: nVidia GTX 1060 OC 6GB
PSU: EVGA 600B
Chassis: Corsair Vengeance C70
OS: Windows 10 (Home), 64-bit

As my thermometer in here strikes I'd say that I have easily around 28° in here, located in Germany. Latest BIOS update was installed like 2 days ago. CPU is running on Full Auto and the turbo mode of Intel got disabled. usage of the CPU in idle (having the browser and some programmes open) shows a usage of around 15-20%.