So, you're a few months or a year into your build, concerned about high CPU temperatures, even when your chip is mostly idle. It's easy to pin all the blame on your CPU cooler, especially if it's an ...

So, you recently acquired a new CPU cooler, but your system still heats up enough to fry an egg. The fans are screaming, your temper is rising with the CPU's temperature, and you're just about to rage ...

The stock thermal paste isn't the problem it's made out to be ...

Repasting is cheap and easy to do, generally. I'd give that a shot. While you're doing that, make sure no dust bunnies have built a nest in the heatsink fins. Modern systems will park cores and do ...