High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 Well... shit. the other month I upgraded my pc to AMD's new platform, getting a 3700x cpu and an x570 motherboard. I ran out of thermal compound back then (the goop that goes between cpu and the heatsink for better transfer of heat) so I ended up putting very little on it back then, so it was a case where my idle temps were like ~45c. I finally got around to ordering more thermal compound a couple days ago. And yesterday I went to do maintenance on my pc, but I fucked up big... Yesterday morning I took a shower, and after that I went to work on my pc, me having water dripping off my hair. I saw a couple drops land on my motherboard while I was moving my pc, and was careful to keep that happening anymore. I figured since it was only a couple drops and my pc wasn't plugged in it wouldn't have caused any harm... fast forward to after I finished working on my pc and hooked it back up, pressed the power button and... nothing. The lights turn on but the motherboard doesn't post. I fiddled with it for awhile, still nothing. I had to leave for the day, but was hoping when I came back my pc would be working, if maybe things would have dried out and... nothing. So this morning I had to replace the motherboard. Good times 1
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 That does suck. That's why I havent even messed with the original thermal paste I applied in this set up. I get some weird fan noises on boot and sometimes during heavy loads. That'll probably be the first thing I have to replace. I think it's just one of the basic airflow fans on my case making the noise. I put an upgraded cpu cooling fan in this build so I hope it's not that one making the noise. 1
High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, PhilosipherStoned said: That does suck. That's why I havent even messed with the original thermal paste I applied in this set up. I get some weird fan noises on boot and sometimes during heavy loads. That'll probably be the first thing I have to replace. I think it's just one of the basic airflow fans on my case making the noise. I put an upgraded cpu cooling fan in this build so I hope it's not that one making the noise. I have a triple rad AiO cooler for my cpu. So 45c at idle wasn't particularly good. Fortunately though I had a second x570 board lying around. When I built this pc I bought an MSI board but I thought it was bad, turned out to be the cpu was dead on arrival. I got the cpu exchanged but still nothing, so I went to a Micro Center over in St Louis and bought a Gigabyte x570 board came back and replaced the board but still nothing. I thought I got two dead boards in a row, but it turned out the power supply cables for the graphics card came unplugged from the psu in the back, that being why it wasn't posted. I just decided to continue using the Gigabyte board since I didn't want to replace the board again. I hung onto the MSI board and was about to sell it on ebay, glad I held onto it. 1
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 I have an application for overclocking that comes with this motherboard... There should be a way to view my CPU temps with it but I guess not. I've been curious about my temps as well.
High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 1 minute ago, PhilosipherStoned said: I have an application for overclocking that comes with this motherboard... There should be a way to view my CPU temps with it but I guess not. I've been curious about my temps as well. I'd say download core temp. Though if you're rocking a 1st or 2nd gen ryzen cpu then from what I hear, Ryzen Master is the only program that'll let you check cpu temp
High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 1 minute ago, PhilosipherStoned said: I have an intel I5 then yeah, core temp will work fine. https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ 1
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 I just googled it and Core Temp popped up. So I guess it is a pretty decent app. I beleive I've found other ways to look at my cpu temp when I was genuinely concerned anyway, but It'll be nice to have an app to tell me my temps without a bunch of configuring.
Recommended Posts