High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I have an intel I5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Ground Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted September 11, 2019 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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