I7-4790K Heat problems

[aholland1432]

My idle temps run at about 45C and my running temps will go up to 100C. Looking for some help as it was working fine and running 30C idle and 72C under full load less then a week ago.

Asus Z97-A
I7-4790K
Corsair GTX H100i
Vampier 900W power supply
2x8gb of corsair vengeance
All ran on windows 10

 

[HamBown81]

How old? Has anything changed other than that?

 

[aholland1432]

How old? Has anything changed other than that?

I bought it off someone and they had had it for about a year or a little more now. They never overclocked it. And nothing else really changed.

 

[HamBown81]

How old? Has anything changed other than that?

I bought it off someone and they had had it for about a year or a little more now. They never overclocked it. And nothing else really changed.

15C is a pretty big jump in a few days...

I would try replacing the thermal paste and cleaning the radiator. I can't really see that causing such a big jump in the absence of anything else though. Your usage and everything is exactly the same, just the temp is higher?

Did you check all of your case fans?

Are you using software fan control like SpeedFan?

 

[Computers Taste Like Metal]

100c is deadly dude. Don't run it anymore if it gets above 70-80.

Maybe it needs new thermal paste, perhaps the room temperature has changed recently?

One trick is that if your case allows: you can remove drive bays that aren't in use, which significantly helps airflow. Try cleaning case/fans with compressed air.

Check and make sure clock speeds are still default.

 

[azaran]

100 degrees is the throttling temp so your cooler is not doing it's job.

While case airflow is important, short of all the airways suddenly having gotten clogged with a pet cat or something you're issues likely don't stem from that. Check thermal compound as suggested. Check the fans on the radiator, if they're not spinning you're not going to get much in the way of cooling, and a seized up bearing in a fan is easy enough to have happen. Check your CPU settings like Computers Taste Like Metal suggested, if you're doing an overclock something could have gotten fouled up in a setting.

That said, off the cuff I'm guessing one of two things.
1. The pump on the Corsair may have bitten the dust. As AIO's are want to do after a few years and the Corsairs have had more than their share of it happening to them.
2. Your PSU might not be giving your AIO enough power. Raidmax PSU's are not exactly the most well built and it's possible the power isn't going where it's supposed to. Try testing your system with a different PSU. If you have a spare PSU or a buddy who'll loan you theirs it'll save you a trip to the hardware aisle.

 

[aholland1432]

I actually completely cleaned out all the dust. Reverted to stock settings changed my fans to run at 100 at all times. Changed thermal paste. I have tried all of that. The pump is running I watch the rpms using corsair link. I will try to find a psu.

 

[HamBown81]

I actually completely cleaned out all the dust. Reverted to stock settings changed my fans to run at 100 at all times. Changed thermal paste. I have tried all of that. The pump is running I watch the rpms using corsair link. I will try to find a psu.

How old is the AIO? Is it possible that it is low on coolant?

 

[aholland1432]

I actually completely cleaned out all the dust. Reverted to stock settings changed my fans to run at 100 at all times. Changed thermal paste. I have tried all of that. The pump is running I watch the rpms using corsair link. I will try to find a psu.

How old is the AIO? Is it possible that it is low on coolant?

I think its about a year and a half but the temp on it only gets up to 60 max when the cpu runs really high

 

[aholland1432]

Oh and also when I changed the thermal paste at first the idle went down to about 36 and not too long after it rose back up and it still ran high load temps

 

[HamBown81]

Are both the inlet and outlet tubes warm when the pump is running?

 

[HamBown81]

Oh and also when I changed the thermal paste at first the idle went down to about 36 and not too long after it rose back up and it still ran high load temps

Just the time it took for the parts and coolant to get saturated probably.

 

[aholland1432]

Only one is warm and it has actually been since july 2015 that the water pump has been in there

 

[HamBown81]

Only one is warm and it has actually been since july 2015 that the water pump has been in there

If only one side is warm after the coolant is up to temp I'd say the pump failed or some other issue.

Just because it is spinning doesn't mean it is pumping efficiently.

 

[aholland1432]

Alright Ill try that