Hi,
I built my PC about 2 months back and everything is working great. Idle temps were 45 to 52 even on hot days. This is all with the stock cooler, which I was happy about. Then all of a sudden a few weeks back temperatures got higher and now I get 60 to 70 idle. I figured the issue must be dust so I opened it up and found that there was indeed a thin coating of very fine dust on the cpu cooler which I cleaned off (probably due to air quality). Also removed the front panel and got some dust out there too. I put everything back together and I'm still getting the same temps. What could be going on, and is there a solution that doesn't involve buying another cooler, since this was working just fine? Thanks!
Also, the graphics card temps are great so I doubt it has to do with the case or airflow.
Full specs:
R9 3900x
Stock Cooler (Wraith Prism)
ROG Strix B550-F Gaming
MSI GTX 1660S Gaming X
Fractal Design Meshify C
32GB g.skill Trident Z neo 3600mhz
Samsung 970 evo
I built my PC about 2 months back and everything is working great. Idle temps were 45 to 52 even on hot days. This is all with the stock cooler, which I was happy about. Then all of a sudden a few weeks back temperatures got higher and now I get 60 to 70 idle. I figured the issue must be dust so I opened it up and found that there was indeed a thin coating of very fine dust on the cpu cooler which I cleaned off (probably due to air quality). Also removed the front panel and got some dust out there too. I put everything back together and I'm still getting the same temps. What could be going on, and is there a solution that doesn't involve buying another cooler, since this was working just fine? Thanks!
Also, the graphics card temps are great so I doubt it has to do with the case or airflow.
Full specs:
R9 3900x
Stock Cooler (Wraith Prism)
ROG Strix B550-F Gaming
MSI GTX 1660S Gaming X
Fractal Design Meshify C
32GB g.skill Trident Z neo 3600mhz
Samsung 970 evo