dirkpitt45
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I've had terrible luck with coolers, finally got one today and it doesn't seem to do much. The core contact 120mm was a b**ch to get on. I had to get my sister to hold it while I put the second clamp thing down.
Anyways I put about two pea sized drops of tx-2 evenly spaced apart on the cooler, but it got moved around a bit while I was struggling to put it on. It didn't do anything to improve my idle temp, still 31-32 stock. It also seems to spike up then cool down quickly whenever I open a program. It did that before, but only to about 34-35, now its 36-37. Haven't run prime95 or any games yet to test load.
Just from the reviews I'd read people were saying they'd idle in the mid-high 20s with a 940 then loads up to 40. It really didn't improve my temps at all, unless I'm just being overly optimistic.
Would it be something I'd done? or just thats average. Another thing, the fan on the heatsink is almost perfectly lined up with my back case fan. The case one pulls and the heatsink blows, I assumed that was fine but I really don't know much; my first build.
Anyways I put about two pea sized drops of tx-2 evenly spaced apart on the cooler, but it got moved around a bit while I was struggling to put it on. It didn't do anything to improve my idle temp, still 31-32 stock. It also seems to spike up then cool down quickly whenever I open a program. It did that before, but only to about 34-35, now its 36-37. Haven't run prime95 or any games yet to test load.
Just from the reviews I'd read people were saying they'd idle in the mid-high 20s with a 940 then loads up to 40. It really didn't improve my temps at all, unless I'm just being overly optimistic.
Would it be something I'd done? or just thats average. Another thing, the fan on the heatsink is almost perfectly lined up with my back case fan. The case one pulls and the heatsink blows, I assumed that was fine but I really don't know much; my first build.