• Computer getting hotter a lot more than normal?
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Hey guys, I bought my desktop back in the early summer of '13, built it myself and whatnot, here's the specs: AMD A8-3870k (oc'ing to 3.2ghz) 8GB Corsair Vengeance (oc'ing to 1866mhz) MSI AMD R7 260x Biostar A75MG When I first got it, it all was cool and fast, and lately (the past week) it's been having real issues. I usually reformat my hard drive every 6 months (windows 8.1) (last time was about when this problem started happening), and first I encountered a "corrupted folder" in my secondary hard drive. I went to go play Warcraft III Frozen Throne LAN (yes, it still is played) with my brother, and when I started up, it launched the regular one, not frozen throne. I tried reinstalling, however when I went to go delete the folder for WC3 I got a strange error saying it was corrupted, then that started a bunch of ugly hard drive issues. However, what I came to ask, is lately when I feel on [URL="http://i59.tinypic.com/24y8oy0_th.jpg"]one of the side exausts of my computer[/URL], it felt hot (not even sticking hand in or touching it, it was ~3-4 in. away), I could feel the heat. My speedfan says my core is ~60C (too hot for me) when I play, however as I'm typing this, my graphics card is idling at 50C, and the AC is on at my house and it's 78F. I have one fan in the back (blowing into computer), and two fans on the top (also both blowing into it). What's the issue?? PS. if this helped, right before I reformatted I went and cleaned all the dust out of my computer (I took my CPU cooler off and also my GPU heatsink and fan off, and now my GPU fan makes this odd sound when it's at 100% power)
60C is fine most parts are rated for 80C. It honestly sounds like HD errors, or your hard drive controllers are going. Go to [url]http://www.hdtune.com/[/url] download the trial and click on the health tab, you can see the health or errors of an HDD. If it is not that then you may want to download the latest chipset drivers [url]http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset[/url]
I think that fixed it, however what's with my temps? My core usually never goes past 45 while gaming (even on pretty intense games). Also why's my graphics card fan making noise?! One last thing, Is my fan setup good?
What cooler do you have? 45 under load is pretty damn good for a 100w proc. And make sure everything is screwed on correctly from when you took off the cooler. And I'm assuming you reapplied thermal paste on both when you took the coolers off?
[QUOTE=Levelog;45503022]What cooler do you have? 45 under load is pretty damn good for a 100w proc. And make sure everything is screwed on correctly from when you took off the cooler. And I'm assuming you reapplied thermal paste on both when you took the coolers off?[/QUOTE] That's what I think it is too.. I don't have any thermal paste on me and I think that's the problem.. I have an [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?gclid=Cj0KEQjwo82eBRCR1Yr2u-G-sK8BEiQAbrSjVOfYPIfMRTdwyr1N7NIDGzOH98csuw0tMihMbclioB4aAj3l8P8HAQ&Item=N82E16835186062&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-CPU+Fans+%26+Heatsinks-_-N82E16835186062&ef_id=U8tdtQAAAQMavqBU:20140726143603:s"]Alpine 64 GT Rev. 2[/URL]. Believe it or not this little thing can cool my CPU 20 times better than my stock cooler.
Are you sure your temperature sensors are reading correctly in whatever program you're using? Try CoreTemp or Speccy..
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