I have an i7 930 with the stock fan and thermal compound. It's mounted on a
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R in a HAF 932 case. I have never had any problems with heat before. In the last few weeks my computer started randomly shutting down whenever I would play graphically intensive videogames or anything that requires much processing. I though it might be my CPU so when I started it up I checked my PC Health in BIOS. After turning it off for around 15 hours I boot up and CPU is at 80C and it goes to around 90C after a few minutes of idling. I then download an application to monitor CPU temperature and it gave me the same results.
I thought it might be a dust problem so I took off my heatsink and dusted it off. I put it back on without any new heat gel because I didn't have any. Now it will only stay on for around 30 seconds booting at 90C and going to 110C before it force shuts down. Now this is in BIOS so this should be minimum idle. I just ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212 heatsink and Arctic Silver 5 Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound. I haven't done anything with overclocking and never had heat issues until very recently. Is this a problem with the heatsink and thermal gel or could it be a problem with the motherboard or the temperature sensor on my CPU? Do you know of any ways to check? Thanks! I would appreciate any help.
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R in a HAF 932 case. I have never had any problems with heat before. In the last few weeks my computer started randomly shutting down whenever I would play graphically intensive videogames or anything that requires much processing. I though it might be my CPU so when I started it up I checked my PC Health in BIOS. After turning it off for around 15 hours I boot up and CPU is at 80C and it goes to around 90C after a few minutes of idling. I then download an application to monitor CPU temperature and it gave me the same results.
I thought it might be a dust problem so I took off my heatsink and dusted it off. I put it back on without any new heat gel because I didn't have any. Now it will only stay on for around 30 seconds booting at 90C and going to 110C before it force shuts down. Now this is in BIOS so this should be minimum idle. I just ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212 heatsink and Arctic Silver 5 Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound. I haven't done anything with overclocking and never had heat issues until very recently. Is this a problem with the heatsink and thermal gel or could it be a problem with the motherboard or the temperature sensor on my CPU? Do you know of any ways to check? Thanks! I would appreciate any help.