High temps on new PC

Hardware Cooling
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hey guys! so i built a new PC today, yay! it has an intel i7 4790k and a be quiet dark rock 3 cooler on it, i activated XMP profile in bios on the RAM, i got intel burn test, i started running it on the "high" setting and i saw my temps jump up to the high 90's on 2 cores so i immediality stopped the benchmark.. the cooler is firm against the motherboard, maybe i put on too little thermal paste? it's arctic silver.

 

should i redo the thermal paste maybe? the installation of the cooler was kinda horrible but i did it right and now it's sitting firm against the motherboard, making good contact with the CPU. i'm sure i didn't put too much thermal paste on atleast, if anything too little. what do i do?

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  • Ambient temp of the room
  • Are you using the fans that came with the heatsink or something else
  • Thats called a burn test for a reason btw.
  • Whats the setup of your air flow, pictures?
  • i7 will run hot because of hyperthreading, have you Overclocked your cpu?
  • Whats the voltage youre running through
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i can't say the ambient of my room, but if i take off my clothes it's not pleasant it's cold if that's to any use probably not but hey

the fan on the heatsink is a be quiet silentwing 2

i have NOT touched my CPU at all yet, everything is on auto. it idles at 30 degrees and when running the intel burntest the volts go up to 1.269

i don't know how i put in pictures sorry. the case is corsair carbide air 540 with 2 stock af 140mm in front as intake and 1 in the back as exhaust.

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i thought a 80 dollar cpu cooler would keep it down a bit better than that.. maybe i did the thermal paste wrong

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Did you remove the protective cover from the contact area on the cooler?

Just rsinstall the cooler and check if everything is ok.

 

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it was my first time building a pc but i'm not stupid :P ofcourse i did, i'll try tomorrow, it's so hard with my heatsink cuz you gotta position it ontop of the 4 screws and you can't see anything o.o

is it a big deal if i try to position it on the CPU, touches it and the thermal paste a bit and then pull it of and go at it again? will it mess up the thermal paste spreading?

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Check your cpu fan setting in bios/uefi. Maybe a cooler reset is in order?

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what do you mean? a cooler reset, like a new cooler?