Core i7 920, stock HSF, stock speeds.
My computer was idling at 45C and loading at 82C. So I opened it up, vacuumed out all the dust, and replaced the thermal paste with perfectly-applied Arctic Silver 5. Then I chilled my room and started her up again, seeing idles of 25-35C. Perfect, right? Hum. Every day it went up a little more, and now I'm idling at 46-50C in the same ambient temperature! Load temperatures grazed 70C but never really went higher, stabilizing around 65. Should I be concerned? The paste bottle said it would go down over time as the paste set in, but it's been rising very gradually. I'm pretty freaked out. (48C totally and completely blank of programs as I write this. Sitting in the BIOS I get the exact. Same. Temperature.)
My computer was idling at 45C and loading at 82C. So I opened it up, vacuumed out all the dust, and replaced the thermal paste with perfectly-applied Arctic Silver 5. Then I chilled my room and started her up again, seeing idles of 25-35C. Perfect, right? Hum. Every day it went up a little more, and now I'm idling at 46-50C in the same ambient temperature! Load temperatures grazed 70C but never really went higher, stabilizing around 65. Should I be concerned? The paste bottle said it would go down over time as the paste set in, but it's been rising very gradually. I'm pretty freaked out. (48C totally and completely blank of programs as I write this. Sitting in the BIOS I get the exact. Same. Temperature.)