Hey all,
I have an intel i9 7940x - default settings, i never bother with overclocking. I have a corsair hydro H100i v2 liquid cooler on it. I think i installed it about 4 years ago. I'm pretty sure when i first installed it it was pretty quiet. but now it's pretty much a vacuum cleaner all the time.
When i open corsair link it shows the cpu sitting at around 80c while idle and the fans on the cooler are pretty much running at full - 2600rpm.
I'm assuming whatever thermal past I have on the cpu has dried out and it needs to be cleaned and re-applied. I ordered some high end thermal paste (thermal grizzly conductonaut). But just thought I'd post on here in case there could be something else I might have missed that's causing the higher temps and loud fans.
I have an intel i9 7940x - default settings, i never bother with overclocking. I have a corsair hydro H100i v2 liquid cooler on it. I think i installed it about 4 years ago. I'm pretty sure when i first installed it it was pretty quiet. but now it's pretty much a vacuum cleaner all the time.
When i open corsair link it shows the cpu sitting at around 80c while idle and the fans on the cooler are pretty much running at full - 2600rpm.
I'm assuming whatever thermal past I have on the cpu has dried out and it needs to be cleaned and re-applied. I ordered some high end thermal paste (thermal grizzly conductonaut). But just thought I'd post on here in case there could be something else I might have missed that's causing the higher temps and loud fans.