- Jul 15, 2003
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Its been running fine for 5 years, never felt the need to toss it. Still using the same LGA 1156 motherboard too.
BUT, lately (last month or so) it seems to not be driving my games very well, especially anything CPU intensive.
Fallout 4 performance has dropped sharply, most noticeable in downtown areas with lots of junk all over the place.
Also getting benchmark scores much lower than systems with my exact same hardware. (3DMark among others.)
Hardware monitor tells me all 4 cores tend to idle at 60 degrees and max out at 99 degrees when I do anything like a stress test or run a game. Clock speed maxes out at 3ghz but with turbo boost enabled they should be able to get all the way to 3.6ghz.
Never get any heat errors from the motherboard, BUT, I did notice a slight increase in CPU benchmark scores after I opened the case and pointed a Vornado fan at it.
Do I need a new heatsink or do I need a new CPU?
BUT, lately (last month or so) it seems to not be driving my games very well, especially anything CPU intensive.
Fallout 4 performance has dropped sharply, most noticeable in downtown areas with lots of junk all over the place.
Also getting benchmark scores much lower than systems with my exact same hardware. (3DMark among others.)
Hardware monitor tells me all 4 cores tend to idle at 60 degrees and max out at 99 degrees when I do anything like a stress test or run a game. Clock speed maxes out at 3ghz but with turbo boost enabled they should be able to get all the way to 3.6ghz.
Never get any heat errors from the motherboard, BUT, I did notice a slight increase in CPU benchmark scores after I opened the case and pointed a Vornado fan at it.
Do I need a new heatsink or do I need a new CPU?