Intel CPU Running too hot

[kRiShNa_96]

I am currently using a newly purchased i5-4590 (non k) and I installed its stock cooler. I have been using it for around 2 weeks and I am starting to believe it is overheating, and I can tell there is performance issues on games such as stuttering, which would otherwise run fine. I have run HW Monitor and it shows that it reaches temperatures of around 45°C when idling and can reach 65°C when running an intensive game.

I have checked that the CPU Cooler lies firmly on the CPU and all of the four push-pins are in securely and as far as they go, so that is not the issue.
If the Intel Stock Cooler is unable to provide sufficient cooling, I have an Asus Silent Knight II from my old PC if that would be advantageous, but I would need to apply some thermal compound, so could anyone recommend any?

Kind Regards

 

[crashtech]

65C is not overheating. That CPU won't throttle until about 100C. You should look elsewhere for the problem.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I am currently using a newly purchased i5-4590 (non k) and I installed its stock cooler. I have been using it for around 2 weeks and I am starting to believe it is overheating, and I can tell there is performance issues on games such as stuttering, which would otherwise run fine. I have run HW Monitor and it shows that it reaches temperatures of around 45°C when idling and can reach 65°C when running an intensive game.

I have checked that the CPU Cooler lies firmly on the CPU and all of the four push-pins are in securely and as far as they go, so that is not the issue.
If the Intel Stock Cooler is unable to provide sufficient cooling, I have an Asus Silent Knight II from my old PC if that would be advantageous, but I would need to apply some thermal compound, so could anyone recommend any?

Kind Regards

I'm not sure that 65C in gaming is abnormal. It's well within normal operating range for Haswell chips. It would of course depend on what sort of games you're playing. For instance, I love the GRID2 stock-car racing simulator, and I only have a 1080p HD gaming monitor. I always choose the best heatpipe cooling solution I can find, while planning to start using water-cooling soon on a new computer build. GRID2 still pushes my CPU temperature to somewhere around 60 to 62C. Of course, my "old" Sandy Bridge chips are OC'd to 4.7 Ghz, so that explains why my temperatures are close to yours with your (crappy) Intel stock cooler.

The stock coolers for Intel are always the worst. They are just adequate -- nothing more. So I don't see a problem with your rig.

You'll get a lot of different advice about TIM compounds here. The three best that I know of based solely on thermal resistance or performance are Indigo Xtreme, Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra or "CLU," and IC Diamond.

IX is a pain to install, requiring you to heat up the processor to 80C so that the metallic film melts and forms an amalgam with your heatsink base and IHS.

CLU is much easier -- also a "liquid metal" formulation, although it's still conductive material and requires a little care to keep it off the motherboard or electronic components.


IC Diamond is a thick sludge of nano-diamond particles in an oil base.
It is hard to spread on the IHS, and a razor-blade or expired credit card comes in handy, together with a little patience. ICD is non-conductive.

It may be that IX outperforms CLU by about 1C, and CLU outperforms ICD by about 1C. But for the simple reasons of thermal conductivity and resistance, they all outperform everything else.

Take your pick. I use IC Diamond, myself.

 

[LTC8K6]

65C is not overheating. That CPU won't throttle until about 100C. You should look elsewhere for the problem.

This.

65C is absolutely fine.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

65C is not overheating. That CPU won't throttle until about 100C. You should look elsewhere for the problem.

Yes. I forgot to even think about that problem because the OP, attempting to diagnose a barely-mentioned stuttering problem, has taken us down this detour about his cooler and CPU temperatures -- which are fine.

He didn't say what sort of graphics processor he's using. I think we'd better backtrack to that or a similar direction -- don't you?

 

[videogames101]

65°C ain't no thang

 

[frozentundra123456]

Yea, what games and what gpu? Sounds like some problem other than CPU.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Yea, what games and what gpu? Sounds like some problem other than CPU.

The OP isn't clear as to whether he'd purchased an OEM system and replaced the original processor, or that he built it himself. He is especially unclear about his "graphics circumstances." So I'm tempted to speculate that he's using the processor's iGPU. Who can say?

Nor is this meant to disparage or criticize Krishna_96, and I should try better to show "public relations skills." But we need to know more to address his stuttering problem.