High Temperature on rig

[geniusboi]

Hi guys, just to check if an average of 97-98 degrees for motherboard, processor and gpu is normal. When I start up my computer it is around this temperature. After like 10 to 15 minutes of idling it will drop to 68-84 degrees. And when I do video editing it goes back to 98.

Question is, if this is abnormal, what should I do?

Buy and install more fans? Invest in a cooling system?

My system is very old, about 5 to 6 years and it is not overclocked. Currently have like 2 stock fans that comes with my casing. Below are my computer specs.

Processor Intel I7-870
Mainboard Asus P7P55D-E Pro Mainboard
Graphics Card Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 290X 4098 MB
Memory 4 x Kingston DDR3 4GB 1333Mhz
Storage Drive Crucial M500 480GB Samsung 1TB SATA2 + Western Digital 2TB Green Caviar
Display 2 x Dell U2311
Audio N/A
Power Supply Unit Cooler Master 550W Extreme
Casing Cooler Master 690 Advance II
Operating System Windows 8 Pro

Advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[jimlwk]

Yes. It's extremely hot. I would say do a thorough clean up of your system first. Blow out or vacuum whatever dust tt's accumulated over the years. Max out whatever fan slots there are and finally, reapply thermal paste to CPU and GPU.

 

[geniusboi]

Yes. It's extremely hot. I would say do a thorough clean up of your system first. Blow out or vacuum whatever dust tt's accumulated over the years. Max out whatever fan slots there are and finally, reapply thermal paste to CPU and GPU.

Thanks for the quick reply. Recently just cleaned the dust off my system. The Gpu is only a few weeks old. Think I shall head your advice and get more fans and probably a new and more powerful heatsink for my processer and if course reapply thermal paste.

 

[superzheny]

Thanks for the quick reply. Recently just cleaned the dust off my system. The Gpu is only a few weeks old. Think I shall head your advice and get more fans and probably a new and more powerful heatsink for my processer and if course reapply thermal paste.

Open the side panel. Blow a house fan directly onto your innards. See if temps drop to the 40s. If it doesnt, chances are a few tiny case fans wont help. In that case consider thermal paste. Or any other reasons for high temps

 

[sglords]

go reapply thermal paste on ur cpu.
then use hwmonitor to chk ur cpu

 

[tungsten2]

If after reapply thermal paste still does not solve your problem, then replace your CPU cooler to those AIO water cooling unit for your CPU.

 

[geniusboi]

Open the side panel. Blow a house fan directly onto your innards. See if temps drop to the 40s. If it doesnt, chances are a few tiny case fans wont help. In that case consider thermal paste. Or any other reasons for high temps

Tried blowing the house fan directly. Doesn't work. Idle temperature still around 70. Will get thermal paste to try out tomorrow. If it still doesn't work I would have to get a water cooling unit right?

 

[geniusboi]

If after reapply thermal paste still does not solve your problem, then replace your CPU cooler to those AIO water cooling unit for your CPU.

Will try out with thermal paste tomorrow. If it still doesn't work I will get one water cooling unit cause the normal fan like no effect. Any recommendations for water cooling units??

 

[jtjt00]

Will try out with thermal paste tomorrow. If it still doesn't work I will get one water cooling unit cause the normal fan like no effect. Any recommendations for water cooling units??

Try one step at a time and don't think too far.

 

[Jian19]

Ref 290x ? i"m not surprised

 

[GrimaH]

The processor and GPU should have separate temperature tracking. It makes no sense that they'd have the same temp reading.

Check whether the 90C reading you're talking about is the CPU or GPU.

Also, this isn't related to temps, but you're basically asking for trouble by powering that system with a 550W Coolermaster Extreme PSU.

 

[geniusboi]

The processor and GPU should have separate temperature tracking. It makes no sense that they'd have the same temp reading.

Check whether the 90C reading you're talking about is the CPU or GPU.

Also, this isn't related to temps, but you're basically asking for trouble by powering that system with a 550W Coolermaster Extreme PSU.

My gpu has a relatively lower temperature at about 70 to 85 degrees. The mother board and processor are the ones almost at the limit with an average of 98 when doing video or photo editing. Just upgraded my gpu probably that's why my PSU seems mismatched. Will go to 750W if I need to buy a new cooling system. But first let me try with thermal paste tonight.

 

[uniquely_ad]

My gpu has a relatively lower temperature at about 70 to 85 degrees. The mother board and processor are the ones almost at the limit with an average of 98 when doing video or photo editing. Just upgraded my gpu probably that's why my PSU seems mismatched. Will go to 750W if I need to buy a new cooling system. But first let me try with thermal paste tonight.

wah if idle temp for gpu its 70-85 its hot aldy!!(my another rig msi r9 290x idle temp its between 50c-60c) 90+ cpu temp will make it go bust! buy a cpu radiators

how many fans do u have in your rig?

you should have gotten yourself a 650w psu

 

[geniusboi]

wah if idle temp for gpu its 70-85 its hot aldy!!(my another rig msi r9 290x idle temp its between 50c-60c) 90+ cpu temp will make it go bust! buy a cpu radiators

how many fans do u have in your rig?

you should have gotten yourself a 650w psu

The system was with me since 2009.At that time 550W seems more than enough. Hahaha. I have one heatsink on processor. 4 fans. One top one bottom one front one back. My gpu bought from lazada a few weeks back. I think it's the ref version so will tend to be hotter.

 

[geniusboi]

I think your temperature sensor is either inaccurate or you are reading it off the wrong one.
It sounds like how hot a 290 should be.
Anyway, A good 550W is enough. don't need to go way overkill with a 750W.

Shall post screen shots of the charts I am reading from tonight. Just in case I am reading wrongly. Using cpu-z and speecy, both are showing the same temp.

 

[Alphidius]

Could be the dust trapped on the processor that causes the heat to be trapped.
Other than that, check which application is consuming CPU in task manager.

 

[jtjt00]

TS is very lucky guy, cm extreme PSU yet to blew up his rig for 6 years.

 

[GrimaH]

The CPU cooler could be improperly mounted, which means it loses contact with the CPU itself, explaining the high temps.

Is the CPU cooler fan actually spinning when the computer is running?

I can't think of any other reason your CPU would run that hot, even on stock cooling.

TS is very lucky guy, cm extreme PSU yet to blew up his rig for 6 years.

Well, he wasn't using the 290X for most of those years

 

[geniusboi]

Update:

I have just removed the stock fan / heat sink and removed most of the dust on it. Use a camera blower and a very tiny paintbrush but still cannot totally remove them

Reapply thermal paste. Use nail polish remover (don't know if i did right, lol) to remove the old ones. Then apply a generous amount of Arctic MX-4. About a rice grain onto the centre of the processor. Then painstakingly reattached back the fan (quite difficult actually).

Fix back everything but the temperature still the same.

 

[geniusboi]

TS is very lucky guy, cm extreme PSU yet to blew up his rig for 6 years.

You all don't scare me leh.