[SOLVED] My CPU is over heating

[rocklee336]

Yesterday i was putting my motherboard and all other components in my case, while i was doing that i wiped off to me what look to me as excess thermal paste from before when I installedf my motherboard a couple months back (I only used a pea size) Now i wanted to check my temps with HWMonitor and now when i play rise of the tomb raider I get about 70 C or 75C! i have a hyper 212 evo and an AMD-A10 5800K

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Whenever you remove a CPU cooler, you should reapply thermal paste. Get a coffee filter and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the old paste off and reapply with new paste.

 

[rocklee336]

Whenever you remove a CPU cooler, you should reapply thermal paste. Get a coffee filter and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the old paste off and reapply with new paste.

i didn't take off the cooler, i just wiped some thermal paste off the side of it, but would me wiping a small amount off the side effect it?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Whenever you remove a CPU cooler, you should reapply thermal paste. Get a coffee filter and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the old paste off and reapply with new paste.

i didn't take off the cooler, i just wiped some thermal paste off the side of it, but would me wiping a small amount off the side effect it?

I would not think so. I would probably take the cooler off and reapply the paste though.

Are you running everything at stock settings? If not, bring everything back to stock settings and see if you still have high temps. It may be something unrelated to cleaning your mobo.

 

[rocklee336]

Whenever you remove a CPU cooler, you should reapply thermal paste. Get a coffee filter and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the old paste off and reapply with new paste.

i didn't take off the cooler, i just wiped some thermal paste off the side of it, but would me wiping a small amount off the side effect it?

I would not think so. I would probably take the cooler off and reapply the paste though.

Are you running everything at stock settings? If not, bring everything back to stock settings and see if you still have high temps. It may be something unrelated to cleaning your mobo.

ill give it a try because im idling at 177F, and yeahb its stock

 

[scout_03]

sometimes the middle screw in the cooler croos holder get loose and it jiggle on cpu so recheck if it is well seated and do not move you might have to retighten the middle one also check you fans if they spin up as temp raise up .