Normal night. Playing Minecraft with Nick. Hearing my CPU fan sounding like a mini tornado siren, but I ignore it.
Five minutes later, sound gets more intense. So I decide to fire up CPUID HWMonitor to check my temps, and froze when I saw my CPU’s temp was 58*C.
I knew I had the damn heater over my window on. So I got up and closed the vent, thinking all I need to do is just cool down the room and everything will be fine.
Room temp started to slowly go down, but my CPU temp hit 62*C. Yet my computer seemed fine.
For ten minutes I didn’t speak a word to Nick. I was paralyzed with fear, thinking “Ohh FUCK I’m going to have to take my computer up there and get it looked at! And Father is not going to like this!!!”
I asked angry who kept on asking me if I had an air can. I eventually said yes. Then told me to hold it upside down with my computer off and spray it on the fan.
Knowing this could be potentially fatal (it says on the can to DO NOT TILT) I refused. But angry claims he wouldn’t be telling me this if he knew it wasn’t safe. Still, I rather listen to the warning on the can than angry.
Almost puking when I kept seeing my temp hovering around 55-59*C, I told Nick that I’m shutting the server down on the count of my temps. After shutting it down I watched my CPU slowly cool down. Soon it was idling around 37-40*C.
Knowing taking my computer up to the Geek isn’t a good option for me (unless I walk it up there which is hard as hell), I’m going to try a different approach to hopefully fix this. I believe there might be something maliciously running in the background causing my CPU to overwork — like a virus or something. Plus it’s been a good long time since I did system maintenance.
Windows 7 is running slower than normal when it comes to booting up as well. So there has to be something like Adware running without my permission.
Then again it may be the CPU. The thermal paste could be failing on me. This is something only a professional can fix.
UPDATE: So far my scans are coming out negative for any harmful files running in the background. This is both good and bad.
Good that it’s not a virus. Bad that it won’t be a cheap fix.
Maybe it was something Nick was doing that was causing my CPU to overheat. Because I was playing Minecraft today with no issues. Angry was even in my server and other than the lag I had no issues.
It could just BE dust for all I know. Or even maybe the temp readings I was getting with HWMonitor were false. 10*C higher than what it really was.
Some of the replies on Facepunch say it’s “perfectly normal” for my CPU to get that hot on load. And now I see proof what they say is true. 70*C is OHH FUCK temp. And the fact my computer didn’t auto-shut off should had told me I was overreacting, once again.
Still, I need to closely monitor my temps for awhile. Maybe dust out my system for good measure. I still feel that if I don’t do something soon it’s going to get worse.