My desktop ran great for many years, however after a long time away from my home country (11 months), I came back and when I powered on my PC, I noticed the CPU temps were 100C.
I cleaned the CPU (and liquid cooling surface) with rubbing alcohol, and applied new thermal paste, but when I powered it up, temperatures went to 100C right away (using HWInfo64).
I want to avoid buying a new CPU liquid cooling system... I'm not sure if a new liquid cooling system will even fit my computer, as it's a 2011 Cooler Master tower.
(I'd like to avoid just buying a new computer, as this one worked very well before it started overheating. I don't really have the money to buy a new computer at the moment, and I really need this one to work, for my small business.)
Is there anything else I can do to fix this computer?
Is the only next logical step to buy a new liquid cooling system? I'm not sure if they still make any that would fit my frame.
Pictures here:
https://ibb.co/KNr70Z8
https://ibb.co/dPvJz4w
Computer stats:
Motherboard: GA-X58-UD3R
Windows 10 LTSC
12GB Ram
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 Ghz 4 Core
Radeon HD 6950 2 GB (256bit) GDDR5 Eyefinity
Corsair H70 Liquid cooling
I cleaned the CPU (and liquid cooling surface) with rubbing alcohol, and applied new thermal paste, but when I powered it up, temperatures went to 100C right away (using HWInfo64).
I want to avoid buying a new CPU liquid cooling system... I'm not sure if a new liquid cooling system will even fit my computer, as it's a 2011 Cooler Master tower.
(I'd like to avoid just buying a new computer, as this one worked very well before it started overheating. I don't really have the money to buy a new computer at the moment, and I really need this one to work, for my small business.)
Is there anything else I can do to fix this computer?
Is the only next logical step to buy a new liquid cooling system? I'm not sure if they still make any that would fit my frame.
Pictures here:
https://ibb.co/KNr70Z8
https://ibb.co/dPvJz4w
Computer stats:
Motherboard: GA-X58-UD3R
Windows 10 LTSC
12GB Ram
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 Ghz 4 Core
Radeon HD 6950 2 GB (256bit) GDDR5 Eyefinity
Corsair H70 Liquid cooling