mmkay, so the fan in my old heatsink broke causing it to wobble uncontrollably, I got a new one, an upgraded model from the original, I took the old one out, wiped off all the old thermal paste, got out my trusty arctic silver 5, put a little dot on the CPU, smeared it around and attached the new heatsink, now my CPU thinks its overheating, it might ACTUALLY be overheating but I doubt it, I start my computer up and in between 30 seconds and 3 minutes it shuts off again, I'm fucking baffled at this, I installed the heatsink the exact same way I've put in all my other ones, it's not wobbly and it's firmly attached to the CPU, making as much contact as possible, it's pissing me off, my computer worked just fine before hand when I had my heatsink held in place with a fucking rubberband and a c-clamp, now i give it a shiney new heatsink and it flips shit, ungrateful little bastard.
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got in long enough to look at bios, my cpu temprature has skyrocketed up, it got to 110 C before it shut off, why the fuck is it getting so hot? there's no reason it should be overheating that much, the fan is working fine, the heatsink would have to be fused to the motherboard itself to get any tighter, it's brand fucking new, brand new thermal paste on it why the hell is my CPU running so hot?
More paste needed.Usually I put a rice sized amount, not a dot.
You did it wrong, so redo it.
110C? Is the HSF even making contact with the CPU?
Try a lot more than a dot. The paste might have lost it's effectiveness over time in the tube.
You don't need too much, but also not too little.
found the problem, turned out it was the shitty new mounting system, it was lifting the HFS up too much so it wasn't even touching the CPU, fixed it by taking the actual heatsink of my old one, which worked fine, and sticking the brand new fan on it, now it works flawlessly.
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