Pox22

Hello, fine citizens of Kansas and abroad. Little about me before my silly question. I graduated last December with a degree in history education to teach high school social studies. Here in Illinois, the teaching job market is TERRIBLE. Even in tiny little rural schools in the middle of nowhere, you can generally count on 250-500 applicants for the position. And up to 4,000 applicants for a position up north in a really nice school. All year, I would say I've applied to 50-60 different schools--not even an interview. My lack of success in Illinois has turned my eye to a national level. I recently applied for a director of young adult ministries at a church in Augusta, KS. Had a very long and very positive interview-esque talk over the phone with the pastor, and he said I should expect to hear from him soon. Which brings me to my question.

Aside from tornadoes, making everything go technicolor, and being synced with Dark Side of the Moon, what's up with Kansas? I've traveled quite a bit, but I've never lived outside my home town. The prospect of packing everything up and moving 10 hours away is both exciting and intimidating. What should I expect? What would make this easier? This is also open to people who've gone through a similar migratory experience--not just those who can provide intel on Kansas.

Thanks!

Yep! I took off the heatsink, used rubbing alcohol to remove the paste from the heatsink and cpu with a coffee filter (all without taking out the cpu or mobo, and not getting any alcohol or paste on anything else), applied some new paste (the stock cooler didn't have paste applied to the entire surface, just a moderately-sized dot), and then entered the BIOS to check temperature. After setting the power plan back to performance and making all 4 cores active again, the temperature is hovering nicely at around 40C.

Thanks for the help, everyone!

@Zelyre: I've wiped off the residual paste with 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol, and am about to apply some thermal paste. Going with the "apply a small dot in the center and install heatsink so it naturally spreads itself" plan. This seems to be the easiest and most straightforward method I can find on the interwebz.

I'll see how/if this stock heatsink stays in place after getting it back in. If it continues to disappoint, do you have a recommendation for its replacement?

Thanks for all the help!

@nintendoeats: There is not.

@Korwin: Upon further inspection, I found that a single pin had become a little loose. I thought just pushing it back in would be good enough--it was not, and further validated by your post. I'm off to pick up some paste now. Hopefully that will do the trick, because $10 would make for a cheap fix.

Hey bombers, I know tested's a bit better for this sort of thing--but those forums get even less traffic these days than they used to. Hoping I can get some help.

I built my PC about 11 months ago, and it's been working fine with no problems. As of this morning, the CPU starting running at a significantly higher temperature--triggering automatic shutdowns. I was generally running at 50-65C, and now at 85-90C. I dust and clean my computer every few months, the heatsink and paste were correctly applied at its building and remain securely in place. I was able to keep the computer on long enough to enter into the BIOS and change the power plan to "power saver" and to turn off two cores of my i5 2500. This has brought down the temperatures to about 60-70C, which is a safe temperature and all...but still high even for when the power plan was on "performance" and all four cores were whirring.

Any ideas as to why my CPU is suddenly running much hotter and how I can correct it? It's been just under a year with this pc, is it already time to drop $30 or so on a good heatsink and thermal paste?

For reference, here's my build...

i5-2500, ASUS P8H61-M, XFX Radeon 6770, 4 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws ddr3 RAM, EarthWatts EA650 650w PSU, Samsung Spinpoint 1TB HDD, boring case, boring optical drive, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Thanks for any help!

Previously, I made my money by scoring standardized tests and evaluating student's essays for said standardized tests. It's about as exciting as it sounds.

Currently, I make my money by being a residential counselor for a Methodist summer camp. I also have a hand in leading their sailing and rock climbing program.

Eventually (hopefully very soon), I would like to make my money by putting my degree to work--teaching high school history.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

-John 15:13

@pyromagnestir: Just check out some thrift stores and buy a suit for $10.

I used to keep the boxes for all electronics I bought/received. Then I realized it was a lot of wasted space in my closet. Now I only keep the boxes of ones I still have and use, so that moving and storing them isn't a hassle.

Three noonwraiths jumped me in The Witcher--hit me with three successive stuns and chipped my health away while I couldn't do anything.

Good times.