Possible Heat Issue?

[Majestic12]

Recently while I have been gaming, I have been encountering problems whereby the game would freeze and the screen would hang before going pitch black. No way to exit to desktop other than to do a hard reset.

Using the PC for web browsing, music and watching movies doesn't have any problems. It's only gaming.

After reading around, I suspect it may have something to do with temperatures being too hot internally. Cleaned the air vents but to no avail. Went into the BIOS and found the following:

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Is it normal for CPU temperatures to go as high as 67 degrees C just on bootup?

As my rig is slightly over three years old, I suspect perhaps the thermal paste on the GPU has also decreased significantly? Especially with occasional periods of intense gaming?

Appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

 

[jtjt00]

I think both CPU & GPU stock thermal paste dried up over 3 years.
Remove old thermal paste with IPA and apply fresh drop.

 

[jtjt00]

This is kinda too hot, from cold condition power up should see temperature not more than 40°C.

....Is it normal for CPU temperatures to go as high as 67 degrees C just on bootup?.....

 

[devilwahaha]

67 degrees is a bit too hot for idle, your chip should be idling in the range of 40-50 degrees at the most at stock clocks. Cleaning the CPU heatsink and the fan, and reapply the thermal paste should fix the problem.

 

[Majestic12]

Thank you all for the advice. Is there a recommendation for where to do the cleaning and paste replacement? Am also looking at possibly upgrading GPU.