Yeah, I thought that the base was 4 ghz as well, but I guess not

I do have 8 cores though so that’s good for gaming, streaming and small blender projects

depends on the games

if they support it or not

what thermal paste you using?

Well World of Tanks is just about to implement multi-threading I think. I can’t remember exactly how they put it, but what they plan to do with the core engine is to rig it so that the more cores there are the more data can be streamlined directly to the GPU.

That being said, even if most games don’t use any more than 6 cores under full load, that’s still a good deal of space for recording the gameplay.

I’m using the thermal paste that came with my cooler, the H100i RGB Platinum I think.

It might be the 150, let me double-check

i still play world of tanks from time to time

well if you ever run out of whatever you're using id suggest getting some arctic mx-4 paste

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That comes with pre-applied paste, I don’t know how good it is.

probably garbage

Am I supposed to replace the thermal paste every now and again?

i still have my old h100? h110? watercooler probably should replace it..

H-something-or-other, the one that has the RGB waterblock

the old corsair h100's

non rgb

Oh

but ive been watching my temps and haven't seen a spike telling me the pump or water is bad

also depending on you. you'd change the paste every 1-3 months

What’s the lifetime of the unit, I can’t imagine that it’s as long as CPUs generally last.

id say get a cpu temp viewer program and just keep eye on it

watch your idle temps and slight rise would mean you'd probably need to blow out the fans/replace thermal

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff I’m going to have to look at getting software-wise.

do you have thermal paste on hand?

I do not, no. I had a tech shop in the city build my PC, my father managed to convince me that they’d have thermal paste.

theres a program called core temp

That being said, my father is in his late 40s/early 50s and built computers when GPUs couldn’t snap the PCIe slots off.

atm my cpu is at 30cish doing minor websurfing etc

https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Yeah, just above summer room temp should be idle

but if i were you id just buy a stick of arctic mx-4 off amazon

Thanks for the advice

it's carbon based so it won't fry your shit if you apply to much by accident

You’re only supposed to apply as much as a dot, right?

theres different ways you could go by doing it

some do a small X on the cpu i just do a pea size dot right in the middle

the heat/pressure of the heatsink will spread it for you

Yeah, JayzTwoCents made a point that if you spread it our before applying the heatsink that you were more likely to get air that would disrupt heat transfer trapped in there

well ive had this cpu for about 5 years

my temps have always been in the 30s or below at idle