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nimalev130
Journeyman III

Ryzen 5 3600 idle temps too high

Hello,

I have been using my PC for a few years and suddenly my CPU temps are idling at ~70C. I have tried changing thermal paste and leaving my pc case panel off, live booting to Linux but still getting the same temps.

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
CPU Cooler: Stock
Case: Corsair 275R

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Mfriez
Journeyman III

If you use windows I would check in the task manager for high cpu usage tasks. I would also make sure you don't have steam updating games and such in the background. I would recmmend getting rid of the stock stealth cpu cooler and getting at least a hyper evo 212 black/rgb. It's a tower cooler and I have mounted lots of those in pc builds at work for people. Hope this helps you a little. Also I would use thermal grizzy,noctua,or arctic silver thermal compund....about a pea size in the middle of the cpu. 

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