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The same thing was happening with my GPU so I underclocked and undervolted it to hell using msi afterburner and now instead of getting 85 C during gaming sessions it's around 70 C. my CPU fan is always loud. i think the thermal paste is gone. I'm not willing to take my computer apart because where my computer is it's really awkward and if it bricks itself i have the money to buy a new one. rn the package temp is idling at 46-55 C, jumping every second. min temp is 45 C. the max temp is 80 C idling according to hwmonitor. i'm getting spikes in high temperature that last a second or so but when I'm playing a game it can spike to 95-100 C

UPDATE: Disabled Boost and undervolted my CPU, now temp spikes are much more reasonable. Max idle temp after 1 hour according to hwmonitor is 53 C which is a lot better than random spikes to 80 C lol. thx to everyone who commented!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

This website seems to indicate that you can either do it in the bios directly, or with traditional overclocking softwares like MSI's Afterburner.

Though you specified you don't want to take it apart, i'd recommand changing your thermal paste anyway to avoid damaging your cpu. Maybe you can bring your pc somewhere else if the place where it's at is the problem. But anyway, that's none of my business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

i'll try that. thx!

UPDATE: Disabled Boost and undervolted my CPU, now temp spikes are much more reasonable. Max idle temp after 1 hour according to hwmonitor is 53 C which is a lot better than random spikes to 80 C lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Do you have an all-in-one liquid cooler on your CPU by any chance? Something like this

I've had one of these leak slow enough that after 7ish years the liquid evaporated and my CPU killed itself.

I had another fail the same way but I caught that one before the CPU failed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Had something similar, but for a GPU. Also corsair.

Yeah, the tubing on the AIO failed and fried the GPU. There did not appear to be any external damage to the tubing. Just... dripped out over the years. Good bye 2080 TI, you served me well during the pandemic and the scalping of GPUs.

I went back to air cooling after that, just with a lot more focus (from me) on airflow, orientation, etc.

Plus, the high end air cooling stuff is good. Like, in the 90s (decade) we dreamed of cooling that good with air, and then water cooling came along. I just never cared for the concept of water running inside my electronics.

Now if I could get that super expensive crap from 3M that isn't conductive and has similar thermal capacities to water, and run that through a water cooling system, I'd be fine with it. Its just prohibitively expensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Same. I went all in on noctua and haven't looked back. Just needs a a good dusting a few times a year to maintain peak performance.