Okay, it's almost the end of the summer already, so this is kind of dumb. My i7 Socket1155 (GOD I HATE THESE "SINGLE WIPE" SOCKETS!) was overheating as it was getting about and over 93°C (die temperature). As my m/b beeps when this happens I quickly try to stop whatever I'm doing and a few moments it drops back down to about 10°C over ambient. It got so bad that I get beeps running 3 of the 4 cores.
This is the stock low profile copper core, aluminum fin heatsink.
I don't know what the original grayish heat sink compound was (it was "pre applied") but it was flaking all over the place when I removed the heatsink/fan. What a mess, it was crumbling all over the place. I air compressor blew out the dust from the heatsink (what a mess 2) and tried to put it back together...
As I don't have any other other heatsink compound other than some zinc oxide, I had to use it. On goes the white stuff and put back together.
Well at least I got my temperatures down to 84°C while using all 4 cores at the same time once more (where it got to 93°C using 3 of 4 cores), so I guess that's good.
I thought it was my case finally catching up. The case I have is a coolermaster tower/desktop case with PSU in front. So in tower configuration, the PSU is sucking air in the wrong direction (though it does have a large 12mm fan sucking in the "right" direction.) I wonder if it's worth to turn that PSU fan around...
This is the stock low profile copper core, aluminum fin heatsink.
I don't know what the original grayish heat sink compound was (it was "pre applied") but it was flaking all over the place when I removed the heatsink/fan. What a mess, it was crumbling all over the place. I air compressor blew out the dust from the heatsink (what a mess 2) and tried to put it back together...
As I don't have any other other heatsink compound other than some zinc oxide, I had to use it. On goes the white stuff and put back together.
Well at least I got my temperatures down to 84°C while using all 4 cores at the same time once more (where it got to 93°C using 3 of 4 cores), so I guess that's good.
I thought it was my case finally catching up. The case I have is a coolermaster tower/desktop case with PSU in front. So in tower configuration, the PSU is sucking air in the wrong direction (though it does have a large 12mm fan sucking in the "right" direction.) I wonder if it's worth to turn that PSU fan around...
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