- Aug 26, 2010
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So heres how it went down, I was playing my video game and I noticed my FPS would drop way down when i got in to heavy load areas , they where acting really strange dropping to single digits. So I restart my computer to see if that would solve the problem but it did nothing. I started checking my comp to figure out what was going on. I ran some temp readings from a third party program and they said I was running at 60C at idle and up to 80's under load. I would say it ran at the 60-80 range for and hour or two before I started running temp programs.
I though it was my graphics card acting up so I was troubleshooting that. When I checked the temp through bios it was reading 97C in red. I opened my case and noticed my cpu heat sink was somewhat lose( One of the plastic lock downs was not locking down and it had pulled away from the cpu a little. So I tightened it back down and turned my pc back on the the temps were the same. So i shut it off and haven't turned it on since. Im guessing the thermal compound dried up when the heat sink was pulled away.
With temp so high, how damaged is my cpu from that kind of temps and also my motherboard? I have a !5-760 and a Sabertooth 55I Motherboard. I don't have any thermal paste so I cant see if that fixes the problem, I am in the process of ordering a aftermarket heat sink since the Intel one does latch right and getting some thermal paste with it. How can you tell if a cpu is burned out or motherboard. I just bought this system so im still in the 30 day return policy for newegg, and well within the manufacturer warranty.Should I try and return the motherboard and cpu just to be on the safe side? Or am I over reacting for something that is not that big of a deal? Any help would be thankful, I'm really stress-en this.
*Edit The temp program is Coretemp. Also when I was trouble shooting it when I still though it was the video card, it did power off on its own, that's what made me start the temp checks.
I though it was my graphics card acting up so I was troubleshooting that. When I checked the temp through bios it was reading 97C in red. I opened my case and noticed my cpu heat sink was somewhat lose( One of the plastic lock downs was not locking down and it had pulled away from the cpu a little. So I tightened it back down and turned my pc back on the the temps were the same. So i shut it off and haven't turned it on since. Im guessing the thermal compound dried up when the heat sink was pulled away.
With temp so high, how damaged is my cpu from that kind of temps and also my motherboard? I have a !5-760 and a Sabertooth 55I Motherboard. I don't have any thermal paste so I cant see if that fixes the problem, I am in the process of ordering a aftermarket heat sink since the Intel one does latch right and getting some thermal paste with it. How can you tell if a cpu is burned out or motherboard. I just bought this system so im still in the 30 day return policy for newegg, and well within the manufacturer warranty.Should I try and return the motherboard and cpu just to be on the safe side? Or am I over reacting for something that is not that big of a deal? Any help would be thankful, I'm really stress-en this.
*Edit The temp program is Coretemp. Also when I was trouble shooting it when I still though it was the video card, it did power off on its own, that's what made me start the temp checks.
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