Things are getting pretty warm over here

[Poroto]

Hello,

After building my first pc build ever (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vtyKbj) I decided to grab a pretty lightweight game such as CS: GO to test the overall performance of my PC.. After 15minutes of gameplay approximately, I see that temps are kinda skyrocketing. Please see pictures.

Afterburner: http://imgur.com/okRjLu8
Speccy: http://imgur.com/zj5hW8r
HWMonitor: http://imgur.com/XFKbPYF

Yes, according to afterburner one of my cores was at 96 Cº, is that even possible while playing CS? I thought that maybe it was reading the temps wrong, so I grabbed Speccy and HWMonitor to track temps, turns out they didn't give me such extreme results as Afterburner, but they did give me 70+Cº which is pretty much either way, right?

I'm running intel stock cooler since I thought getting a third party cooler for a locked CPU wasn't worth it, but now I'm kinda re-considering it... should I grab a 212 evo or something? I'm kinda worried honestly.

Thanks.

PD: Also, out of pure curiosity, I was a laptop fan until I decided to give Desktops a go so I don't know much about their "noise". I have my PC literally next to me, but are the fans/cpu cooler fans supposed to be heard when idle? Cause I can hear my PC the whole time, either gaming or browsing the web.. is this normal?

 

[James Mason]

Uhh, what pins is your CPU fan plugged into?
I'm wondering if it's plugged into a regular case fan port...

Or you didn't install the stock cooler right.

What are your idle temps like? (when the computer has been sitting doing nothing for an hour or so)
What is the ambient temperature of the room?

Since your GPU temps are fine, you probably... didn't secure the stock cooler down well since it was your first build.

 

[Sarofendor]

Buy some new thermal paste, remove the cooler and replace the old thermal paste with the new, put the cooler back on and see if that fixes it.

 

[Poroto]

Uhh, what pins is your CPU fan plugged into?
I'm wondering if it's plugged into a regular case fan port...

Or you didn't install the stock cooler right.

What are your idle temps like? (when the computer has been sitting doing nothing for an hour or so)
What is the ambient temperature of the room?

Since your GPU temps are fine, you probably... didn't secure the stock cooler down well since it was your first build.

It's plugged into CPU_FAN (guess that's where it's supposed to go, right?).

Idle temps seem to be fine (35-40 Cº).

Room temperature is also normal.

 

[Poroto]

Buy some new thermal paste, remove the cooler and replace the old thermal paste with the new, put the cooler back on and see if that fixes it.

Gotcha. Thanks for the tip.

 

[bitwright]

As the others have said, it's likely an installation issue. You might have put too much thermal paste or too little, or just not secured the cooler correctly. I'm not going to add much to that conversation.

But, in response to your fan noise question, fans on a desktop are always spinning, so your desktop is always going to make some noise. You can try to reduce the amount of noise your PC makes by fiddling with fan speeds or just by buying quieter fans. You can also reduce the number of fans in your case to make it quieter. A lot of people tend to install more fans than they need. I think the 2 that came with you case should be enough for your build, assuming you get your CPU temp problem under control 😉

 

[Poroto]

As the others have said, it's likely an installation issue. You might have put too much thermal paste or too little, or just not secured the cooler correctly. I'm not going to add much to that conversation.

But, in response to your fan noise question, fans on a desktop are always spinning, so your desktop is always going to make some noise. You can try to reduce the amount of noise your PC makes by fiddling with fan speeds or just by buying quieter fans. You can also reduce the number of fans in your case to make it quieter. A lot of people tend to install more fans than they need. I think the 2 that came with you case should be enough for your build, assuming you get your CPU temp problem under control 😉

Just opened up the case and there was indeed little to none thermal paste on the CPU, so that may be the issue. I'll grab one in 2-3 days since where I live they only sell cheap generic ones and I guess it would be wise to get arctic silver or something more high quality, right? In the meantime, is it ok if i use the pc for regular web browsing? Or would it be recommendable to just leave it until i grab new paste?

Check pics (deleted the numbers on the top cpu in case they were sensitive info or anything)

http://imgur.com/a/gnYme
http://imgur.com/a/JGF2W

 

[Poroto]

Quick Update: Just replaced thermal paste and reinstalled stock cooler, things seem to be much cooler now, temps were 62ºC maximum approx while playing CS:GO, are this temps normal for my build? Thanks.

 

[James Mason]

Quick Update: Just replaced thermal paste and reinstalled stock cooler, things seem to be much cooler now, temps were 62ºC maximum approx while playing CS:GO, are this temps normal for my build? Thanks.

normal/nothing to worry about, that amount of paste did seem too low, so glad that was all it took to fix it.

 

[Poroto]

Quick Update: Just replaced thermal paste and reinstalled stock cooler, things seem to be much cooler now, temps were 62ºC maximum approx while playing CS:GO, are this temps normal for my build? Thanks.

normal/nothing to worry about, that amount of paste did seem too low, so glad that was all it took to fix it.

Appreciate the help to everyone who reached out and suggested me to swap the paste, apparently that was the culprit. Now I need to test this in more intensive games. Thanks again!