Need Help... Temps have bumped up 10C

baseball7

baseball7

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yea im back with another problem...

so i took out my stock fan, and put in a new Hyper N520 i used xigmatek thermal paste.. i just installed the cpu fan earlier today.. and running the same programs that i normally run, my cpu has jumped 10C...
with the stock cooler -- averaging between 28-40C
with the N520-- 40-48C

i also have the AllCPU gadget running on my desktop.. and it says that im using about 60-95% of my cpu... but with my old stock cooler i was usually running between 30-75% of my cpu.. I am looking to OC a little bit, so thats why i bought the aftermarket cooler.

The big question is... Why in the $%&^ is this happening? do i just have to give the N520 some more time? or should i just take it back to the store and get another better cooler?

Rig setup is below so please help me out and i have a ThermalTake V4 chasis just for size measurements for the cooler..

Thanks much as always
 
how much thermal paste did you use and how did you apply it? a little goes a long way, and too much will just make the paste act like an insulator.
 
ahh... yea prob a lil too much.. first time ever applying it :)... i even took a good amount off... but i put a very thin layer on and didnt get the edges... just thinking that the paste would smoosh in and cover the entire cpu...
 
but whenever i pulled off the old stock cooler, the preapplied thermal paste seemed to be dry as a bone... which obviously aint good
 
I dont think the cpu cooler will raise you cpu usage. More CPU usage will cause more heat so the problem might not go away with less thermal paste.:confused: I think I used that CPU gadget also but found I have the info in the task manger all ready so I unistalled it.
 
I echo Metal Man 2. If your CPU is working twice as hard it's bound to be a lot hotter so the temperatures are of no immediate value. At low CPU an aftermarket cooler won't make a big difference anyway. If the ambient temperature is say 22 degC, the inside of the case will be a few degree hotter so the best cooler in the World will not do much better than your 28 degC with the stock cooler. You need to look at why the CPU is running more.
 
im no computer wiz... but right now i was running at idle at a steady 34C and under 10% of the cpu being used...

But yall just brought up brand new problems for me... guess more research .. if anyone else could help answer nanobyte... would be greatly appreciated

Nanobyte said:
You need to look at why the CPU is running more.
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go to task manager and look at what processes are running and try to remove what you dont need running. Just type them into google to see what they do
 
To clarify the thermal grease issue, it's only there to remove any micro air pockets between the heat sink and CPU. Both are quite flat but not completely. Air is an insulator so it's better to have the heat-conductive paste there instead. Put too much paste there and it acts as an insulator in places where the CPU and heatsink are very close or touching.

Re your last temps, 34 sounds a bit warm for a mega heatsink on idle. The 28 was good. It depends to an extent on the room and case cooling. Your MB temperature is yardstick for case temperature if you have no indication of that. Your MB utilities may have detailed monitoring. AllCPU does not show everything. Speedfan or a number of others are quite useful for general monitoring.

When checking your running processes, only the ones using CPU are relevant to your issue. The rest are just using memory.

Edit: I was reading one article about thermal paste where the author actually made some tests. It's a subject prone to a lot of unsubstantiated claims and general BS. He found that no paste is worst; thick paste next to worst; almost any thermal paste were about equal and toothpaste beat the lot. I would not recommend toothpaste - it may prevent CPU cavities but could cause a host of other problems. For you Down Under, Vegemite is pretty good in emergencies too apparently.
 
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