whats wrong with my pc..?

[joyghost]

for some reason my mobo bios was showing 70 degree temperature of my processor just being idle...i changed the thermal paste...then the temperature still shows 50 degree in idle....whenever i start games like battlefield 4 my pc restarts....then when i enter the bios again the temp goes to over 75-80 and up....is this a bios prob...will i have to update my bios...??

 

[cowboydude99]

Do you have decent airflow in the case?

What cpu and what cooler are you using?

 

[vagrantsoul]

did you clean all the old paste off properly and not OVER apply the new stuff?

could be due to an overclock in the ram, airflow, heatsink not being secured properly, please provide more info.

 

[joyghost]

i m using i5 3470 with stock cooler..the cooler is doing good....my chassis is thermaltake v3..with chassis cooler as well....the thing is...when my bios showed 80 degree i opened the processor and it wasn't that hot when i touched it...the heat sink of the cpu cooler was also not that hot...

 

[cowboydude99]

install HWMonitor. Check temps from there.

 

[joyghost]

one of my frnd was saying its maybe coz of the bios is reading wrong...can it be,,

 

[joyghost]

did you clean all the old paste off properly and not OVER apply the new stuff?

could be due to an overclock in the ram, airflow, heatsink not being secured properly, please provide more info.

yes i have cleaned it...the ram is not overclocked....the airflow seems to be alright as my gpu temp and mobo temp is only 30-35.....heatsink is also put in

 

[cowboydude99]

one of my frnd was saying its maybe coz of the bios is reading wrong...can it be,,

I can't really say 100% if that is your problem.

Have you upgraded the BIOS for the motherboard? It could just be a bad sensor...

 

[joyghost]

yes my frnd also said that...but what should ido

 

[cowboydude99]

What system board?

 

[joyghost]

MSI H77a-g43...

 

[cowboydude99]

http://us.msi.com/support/mb/ZH77AG43.html#down-utility

Download the Live Update utility. It should do the update for you.

 

[joyghost]

well i don't have any internet connection at my home right now....but i have downloaded the bios update file from the msi support page....and i have it in my pen drive but how will i update it....

 

[joyghost]

i forgot to mention that i had 8 gb corsair 1600 mhz ram...but now i m using only 2 gb 1333 mz ram...and trying to play bf4....or AC revelations..

 

[cowboydude99]

I don't see any utilities to do this offline.

 

[cowboydude99]

Considering the games crash when you run them, is it possible that RAM is bad?

It could explain the higher temps on the CPU.