Hey folks, soooo a couple weeks back I had an M.2, my primary drive, crap out on me. It just died. The BIOS would no longer recognize it. Luckily I had made a clone on an 2.5" SSD. However, during my trying to figure out what went wrong with my M.2 I noticed that my machine was running really hot. Idling in the 60 C range and even touching 98 C from time to time when playing World of Warships. I did a bunch of cleaning which seemed to help. The radiator did have a lot of dust on it. Next I applied some new thermal paste.
I started looking at a bunch of other stuff in Task Manager and found some Windows processes that were running in the background that were using up ridiculous percentages of my CPU (Intel i7 6850K). I researched online and turns out that these processes have been problematic for many over the past couple years. Sorry I don't remember which they were. Removing them alleviated some of the heating issues though. I then downloaded Intel's CPU Diagnostic tool thinking the issue might be the CPU but according to the diagnostic tool the CPU is in good health and functioning normally. Intel's documentation says max temp on this processor is 127 C.
I haven't bothered monitoring the temps of this PC for a while now. When I built it 4 years ago I monitored temps a lot and it would idle in the low to mid 30's C and when playing World of Warships this machine was hard pressed to hit a temp in the high 60's.
Now however, when I play WoW, it idles at the game screen in the mid 60's and bounces between mid 70's to mid 90's during game play. As of this writing, with no other applications running, the machine is running at 47 C.
I have a Corsair H115i AIO cooler that I installed about 6 months after completing the build. So the cooler is maybe a little more that 3 1/2 years old. A hands-on test was next. I opened up the PC and put my hands on the cooler's input and output tubes, the output is really hot of course but the return is very cool. Both 240mm fans on the radiator are at 1500 RPM give or take as are the rest of the fans. I never had to run my fans that fast before. As of this writing, Corsair's ICU software says the cooler pump is running at 3200 RPM give or take at any second and the coolant temp is 40.5 C.
The case, Coolermaster Stryker (White one. Not sure if its available any longer) has excellent ventilation. I have 2 fans in the front pulling air in and the large fan at the rear is pushing out. The 2 fans on the cooler are on the underside of the radiator inside the case and pushing up and out of the case. The air coming out of the case at that top and rear is very cool. I tried running it with the side wall removed and that did nothing to drop temps.
Not sure why, that at some point this machine started running hot or what could be causing it.. Not one component has been changed since the original build except for the install of the M.2 which is being RMA'd. The only thing I can think of is that with all the updates that World of Warships has made to the graphics of the game, maybe that was enough to push my CPU hard enough to jack up temps to stupid levels.
I'll post the rest of my specs but I'd appreciate any input that the community has to offer. I'd like to get my in-game temps back down into the 60' or 70's. I know these things don't last forever. I don't mind the idea of replacing a part or two but I shutter at the thought of building a similar machine again at today's prices.
Thanks very much.
Specs:
I started looking at a bunch of other stuff in Task Manager and found some Windows processes that were running in the background that were using up ridiculous percentages of my CPU (Intel i7 6850K). I researched online and turns out that these processes have been problematic for many over the past couple years. Sorry I don't remember which they were. Removing them alleviated some of the heating issues though. I then downloaded Intel's CPU Diagnostic tool thinking the issue might be the CPU but according to the diagnostic tool the CPU is in good health and functioning normally. Intel's documentation says max temp on this processor is 127 C.
I haven't bothered monitoring the temps of this PC for a while now. When I built it 4 years ago I monitored temps a lot and it would idle in the low to mid 30's C and when playing World of Warships this machine was hard pressed to hit a temp in the high 60's.
Now however, when I play WoW, it idles at the game screen in the mid 60's and bounces between mid 70's to mid 90's during game play. As of this writing, with no other applications running, the machine is running at 47 C.
I have a Corsair H115i AIO cooler that I installed about 6 months after completing the build. So the cooler is maybe a little more that 3 1/2 years old. A hands-on test was next. I opened up the PC and put my hands on the cooler's input and output tubes, the output is really hot of course but the return is very cool. Both 240mm fans on the radiator are at 1500 RPM give or take as are the rest of the fans. I never had to run my fans that fast before. As of this writing, Corsair's ICU software says the cooler pump is running at 3200 RPM give or take at any second and the coolant temp is 40.5 C.
The case, Coolermaster Stryker (White one. Not sure if its available any longer) has excellent ventilation. I have 2 fans in the front pulling air in and the large fan at the rear is pushing out. The 2 fans on the cooler are on the underside of the radiator inside the case and pushing up and out of the case. The air coming out of the case at that top and rear is very cool. I tried running it with the side wall removed and that did nothing to drop temps.
Not sure why, that at some point this machine started running hot or what could be causing it.. Not one component has been changed since the original build except for the install of the M.2 which is being RMA'd. The only thing I can think of is that with all the updates that World of Warships has made to the graphics of the game, maybe that was enough to push my CPU hard enough to jack up temps to stupid levels.
I'll post the rest of my specs but I'd appreciate any input that the community has to offer. I'd like to get my in-game temps back down into the 60' or 70's. I know these things don't last forever. I don't mind the idea of replacing a part or two but I shutter at the thought of building a similar machine again at today's prices.
Thanks very much.
Specs:
- MSI Gaming Pro Carbon MB
- Intel Core i7 6850k (max temp per Intel is 127C)
- Nvidia GTX 1080 (ASUS Strix 8gb)
- Corsair H115i AIO (2 - 240mm fans)
- G-Skil Ripjaws 32g RAM
- CoolerMaster Stryker Full Tower (3 fans)
- Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD (OS)
- Crucial 1TB (Secondary)
- Seagate Barracuda 4TB (Tertiary)
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