my AMD phenom II x4 940 BE seems to be getting way too hot. I did not overclock it at all yet. My case has good airflow... I even opened the side panel and blew a fan in there, but it did not help.
when my computer is idling, the cpu is around 40 C. as soon as I stress it a little, it goes over 50. under full load it can get over 60.
One thing that I suspect it could be is the thermal grease stuff that comes on the bottom of the heat sink. I had to pull the heat sink back off the cpu when I was building it, only to put it right back on. I am wondering if because I did that I should have applied more thermal grease?
I dont have any right now to test it, and I dont want to run out and buy it if it will make absolutely no difference.
If anyone has any advice for me I would greatly appreciate it, as this is the first pc I have ever built and really dont know what I am doing.
my com:
amd pII x4 940 BE
radeon hd 4870
biostar TA779GX
Gskill 4 gb ram
when my computer is idling, the cpu is around 40 C. as soon as I stress it a little, it goes over 50. under full load it can get over 60.
One thing that I suspect it could be is the thermal grease stuff that comes on the bottom of the heat sink. I had to pull the heat sink back off the cpu when I was building it, only to put it right back on. I am wondering if because I did that I should have applied more thermal grease?
I dont have any right now to test it, and I dont want to run out and buy it if it will make absolutely no difference.
If anyone has any advice for me I would greatly appreciate it, as this is the first pc I have ever built and really dont know what I am doing.
my com:
amd pII x4 940 BE
radeon hd 4870
biostar TA779GX
Gskill 4 gb ram