My kiddo is using my previous rig which I assembled back in 2015/2016. I haven't changed or replaced anything in it since and it still runs like clockwork. Pretty impressive I dare say.
A long time ago I built a watercooled system around the i7-3930k and I used IC Diamond 7 paste. About 5 years later I overhauled the loop and I saw about a 1c temperature drop with Kryonaut paste. Yes, IC Diamond is nasty, it pitted the IHS, and it erased the print on the IHS, but it worked well. I rolled with this system for around 10 years as well, but I upgraded to the Xeon E5-1680 v2 for the last 3 years of my x79 system's life. PSU that's more than 10 years old is too risky. The caps become too iffy at that point. I have an old Seasonic X-1250 that I'm going to retire here shortly.
It's always a good idea to re-paste your CPU, heck even GPU. I don't have issues with thermal throttling because I'm using a decent cooler and good enough airflow, but whenever possible, I reapply some good old paste. My favorite is the HY500 from Ali, pretty good price/performance ratio :) Anyways, great vid, keep up to good work
I had to recently move up to 850w from 600w. System wouldn't even boot with an extra 100w load. Kept cycling the trouble LEDs. Worth a shot, Apevia has some decent and cheap units on Amazon.
Kind of surprised to see someone using a 3930k in 2024. Still kind of neat. I remember it was almost a legendary processor at the time. It was really hyped up as this workhorse of a cpu, that people were throwing ridiculous amounts of cash at. Especially loading it with quad SLI. I remember seeing people even put 64gb's in these systems. It was such a weird time, it was looked upon as such a high end cpu. It was for sure, but when the 5th gen launched, it didn't seem as exciting and people seen an 8 core for $1000 and 10 core launch after spending $1000 on a 6 core cpu. You weren't seeing as many high end builds posted up anymore. It was a weird time. I would imagine if you could put an nvme ssd on a pci-e card, the system should hold up reasonably. The system like yours having 2133mhz ddr3 at 2400mhz with quad channel is a lot of bandwidth. I remember people getting that cpu to around 4.7ghz relatively easy. I think I would push it to at least 4.5-4.6ghz. As for the thermal paste, if you notice your temps are higher than normal, after 3-5 years, probably check and replace it. I am currently using arctic silver mx-4 for my cpu and gpu. I did a repaste. I would rather be using mx-6 now. However mx-4 is long lasting. If you are up in the high 95c+, a lot of thermal pastes tend to break down at those temps and it may have had the pump out effect and would be all dried out. For older systems, heating is a good idea, but also twisting the cpu cooler first is a pretty good idea after removing any retention screws or brackets. If you are using old systems you want to keep around or doing a laptop, I think it might be a good idea if you plan on keeping a system and dont want to repaste to possibly use those reusable thermal pads instead. There are some really good ones that you don't have to worry about ever replacing and do nearly as good as most thermal pastes. I did that for a laptop and don't regret it.
@JeordieEH Thanks! I hope to do an upgrade soon.. I could put a nvme ssd on a pci-e card like you said. But even with the Sata SSD i have it runs well. At some point I will try to push the overclock to atleast 4.5 and see what kind of performance numbers we can get. Thermal pads are a great idea! Thanks for the great comment and advice!
Is there any liquid left in that AIO? I just removed the same old h100 unit from a decade old system and a lot of the liquid had evaporated out through the tubes.
@kevintipcorn6787 That is a good question. The temps are staying consistent under load and aren't that high. around 50c. I assume that at this point some has evaporated. I may do an AIO maintenance video sometime down the road.
@@DinosaurTalksTech At that point I would look into swapping in a good robust air cooler if there's room for it and if it could handle the heat as I'm well aware that CPU is drawing well over 130W with that overclock. That's just my thought as air coolers have gotten better over the years and I enjoy the peace of mind of never having to worry about a leak which is a real possibility with an AIO cooler of that age. Perhaps you could do a video about their reliability.
I think you needed to repaste your cpu because you used a non liquid metal paste or just a crappy paste which loses it's properties overtime. My 5930K has like almost a decade and after cleaning the dust it needs like 5 minutes to go above 60 degree celsius under max load with prime 95 which is between 130 and 140 watts. It idles usually somewhere between 36 and 40 and doesn't go above 50 when gaming.
@SuperBase2 It Depends on the cooler as well as ambient temperature. Liquid metal paste is to be changed every 1-3 years depending on workload and cooler material. After the re paste. The CPU does not seem to get as hot as it did before. Even pushing it to a 4.0 GHz overclock.
@@DinosaurTalksTech Mine is usually on for 12 to 16 hours daily since I bought it, but I can't see any reason to repaste it with these temps. Room temp is around 23 or 24.
@jasonmeister6988 I would recommend changing the thermal paste on that GPU. The pads are a difficult thing to try and swap out since too thick or thin would affect the GPU. unless the pads are dry like a chalk and breaking. I would keep the pads on there and just change the Paste
I just built a new rig using thermal paste that's been in my tool drawer for 12 years. Back during the Pentium 4 days we used never seize because it was available locally and worked comparably. People make far too much of a fuss over nothing.
Doesn't it crash sometimes in CPU Bound games? My friends 10 year old gpu crashed a lot and I told him to replace the paste, he did and we even overclocked it, runs 60% better as its a GT 730 DDR3.
@boxscorewatcher413 108 fahrenheit (around 42 c) that is not that bad. Especially if you're able to keep it that cool. If you are saying 108 c. The PC should have shut down the minute it reached 100. Or the cpu would have throttled itself.
@Admiral_Jezza . That may be a possibility. The pressure from the CPU cooler should remove if any air bubbles or pockets. It's always good to double check and make sure you have an even spread. I may have put too much on for this video. But temps seem to be running stable.
Nah! As the paste gets heated in it will spread just fine. You could see how it spread itself just by placing the cooler block on it. For laptops I just use a small dot as the CPU and GPU dies are so small. For desktop CPUs and GPUs I usually just apply an X.
Nah not needed that quickly at all unless you are using poor paste. Just repaste it when you notice temps rising a bunch... Have had my 3080 never been repasted and it's temps are the same as the day I got it on release. That's 3+ years of hardcore usage as well. CPUs are pretty much the same as well.
What i find the most shocking is that you play lol with a controller
Try playing a fighting or racing game with MNK
@@cryptosapien8420Try being my friend and playing a fighting game with a gear shift and a steering wheel
It's a bliss to see such old hardware still holding up for todays tasks.
I replaced thermal paste on my 10 year old cpu recently and tbh it was still fine. It was also some nobrand one :D
iv even repasted a 2 year old GPU with $8 thermal paste which bought temps from around 82 to late 60s so yes do it.
My kiddo is using my previous rig which I assembled back in 2015/2016. I haven't changed or replaced anything in it since and it still runs like clockwork.
Pretty impressive I dare say.
Your static sound on the subscribe button when you flipped the power supply on made my heart drop!!
A long time ago I built a watercooled system around the i7-3930k and I used IC Diamond 7 paste. About 5 years later I overhauled the loop and I saw about a 1c temperature drop with Kryonaut paste. Yes, IC Diamond is nasty, it pitted the IHS, and it erased the print on the IHS, but it worked well. I rolled with this system for around 10 years as well, but I upgraded to the Xeon E5-1680 v2 for the last 3 years of my x79 system's life.
PSU that's more than 10 years old is too risky. The caps become too iffy at that point. I have an old Seasonic X-1250 that I'm going to retire here shortly.
Agreed. I just swapped mine because the older PSU wouldn't do a Ryzen 5 and R580 lol. (spare parts PC)
It's always a good idea to re-paste your CPU, heck even GPU. I don't have issues with thermal throttling because I'm using a decent cooler and good enough airflow, but whenever possible, I reapply some good old paste. My favorite is the HY500 from Ali, pretty good price/performance ratio :) Anyways, great vid, keep up to good work
cpu yes, gpu - absolutely not worth it unless you want to mess with thermal pad measurements and messing it up even more
I had to recently move up to 850w from 600w. System wouldn't even boot with an extra 100w load. Kept cycling the trouble LEDs. Worth a shot, Apevia has some decent and cheap units on Amazon.
Could the PSU have been faulty? normally a psu upgrade should not cause the system to not boot.
just did the same upgrade and mine was fine, along with my 3080 addition
Kind of surprised to see someone using a 3930k in 2024. Still kind of neat. I remember it was almost a legendary processor at the time. It was really hyped up as this workhorse of a cpu, that people were throwing ridiculous amounts of cash at. Especially loading it with quad SLI. I remember seeing people even put 64gb's in these systems. It was such a weird time, it was looked upon as such a high end cpu. It was for sure, but when the 5th gen launched, it didn't seem as exciting and people seen an 8 core for $1000 and 10 core launch after spending $1000 on a 6 core cpu. You weren't seeing as many high end builds posted up anymore. It was a weird time.
I would imagine if you could put an nvme ssd on a pci-e card, the system should hold up reasonably. The system like yours having 2133mhz ddr3 at 2400mhz with quad channel is a lot of bandwidth. I remember people getting that cpu to around 4.7ghz relatively easy. I think I would push it to at least 4.5-4.6ghz.
As for the thermal paste, if you notice your temps are higher than normal, after 3-5 years, probably check and replace it. I am currently using arctic silver mx-4 for my cpu and gpu. I did a repaste. I would rather be using mx-6 now. However mx-4 is long lasting. If you are up in the high 95c+, a lot of thermal pastes tend to break down at those temps and it may have had the pump out effect and would be all dried out. For older systems, heating is a good idea, but also twisting the cpu cooler first is a pretty good idea after removing any retention screws or brackets. If you are using old systems you want to keep around or doing a laptop, I think it might be a good idea if you plan on keeping a system and dont want to repaste to possibly use those reusable thermal pads instead. There are some really good ones that you don't have to worry about ever replacing and do nearly as good as most thermal pastes. I did that for a laptop and don't regret it.
@JeordieEH Thanks! I hope to do an upgrade soon.. I could put a nvme ssd on a pci-e card like you said. But even with the Sata SSD i have it runs well. At some point I will try to push the overclock to atleast 4.5 and see what kind of performance numbers we can get. Thermal pads are a great idea! Thanks for the great comment and advice!
Is there any liquid left in that AIO? I just removed the same old h100 unit from a decade old system and a lot of the liquid had evaporated out through the tubes.
@kevintipcorn6787 That is a good question. The temps are staying consistent under load and aren't that high. around 50c. I assume that at this point some has evaporated. I may do an AIO maintenance video sometime down the road.
@@DinosaurTalksTech At that point I would look into swapping in a good robust air cooler if there's room for it and if it could handle the heat as I'm well aware that CPU is drawing well over 130W with that overclock.
That's just my thought as air coolers have gotten better over the years and I enjoy the peace of mind of never having to worry about a leak which is a real possibility with an AIO cooler of that age. Perhaps you could do a video about their reliability.
I think you needed to repaste your cpu because you used a non liquid metal paste or just a crappy paste which loses it's properties overtime. My 5930K has like almost a decade and after cleaning the dust it needs like 5 minutes to go above 60 degree celsius under max load with prime 95 which is between 130 and 140 watts. It idles usually somewhere between 36 and 40 and doesn't go above 50 when gaming.
@SuperBase2 It Depends on the cooler as well as ambient temperature. Liquid metal paste is to be changed every 1-3 years depending on workload and cooler material. After the re paste. The CPU does not seem to get as hot as it did before. Even pushing it to a 4.0 GHz overclock.
@@DinosaurTalksTech Mine is usually on for 12 to 16 hours daily since I bought it, but I can't see any reason to repaste it with these temps. Room temp is around 23 or 24.
Meanwhile my pc is idling at 50C. Interesting.
I think we have the same case, it has a rear mounted 5.25 disc drive? Phantek something?
Hi @kiwiasian Thanks for the comment! This case is a Corsair Vengeance C70.
Ok, so what about GPUs`? I got an 980ti from eBay and I wonder if I should do that, never did it on a GPU before tho
you should repaste is its a very old gpu
@@istvangaming9406 I would need some new pads for the Vram, right? Guess I can't go wrong with the thermal Grizzly package
@@jasonmeister6988 i dont think most people replace the pads tho if u want to u can
@jasonmeister6988 I would recommend changing the thermal paste on that GPU. The pads are a difficult thing to try and swap out since too thick or thin would affect the GPU. unless the pads are dry like a chalk and breaking. I would keep the pads on there and just change the Paste
@@DinosaurTalksTech thx
I just built a new rig using thermal paste that's been in my tool drawer for 12 years. Back during the Pentium 4 days we used never seize because it was available locally and worked comparably. People make far too much of a fuss over nothing.
@GenuinelySeven Very interesting. Thanks for Sharing!
tx650 psu oh the memories
My CPU has been running at 108 degrees for 9 years straight and it's doing fine.
Doesn't it crash sometimes in CPU Bound games? My friends 10 year old gpu crashed a lot and I told him to replace the paste, he did and we even overclocked it, runs 60% better as its a GT 730 DDR3.
what cpu is that?
@@kubeceu2715hes capping dude impossible 109 after 10 days will blow the fuck up💀
@@VladimirPutin-y6j could be F not C lol
@boxscorewatcher413 108 fahrenheit (around 42 c) that is not that bad. Especially if you're able to keep it that cool. If you are saying 108 c. The PC should have shut down the minute it reached 100. Or the cpu would have throttled itself.
Ironically, I just repasted my CPU from the cheap shit I bought initially and got some KPx and it has been a noticeable improvement.
Cheap new thermal paste is better than top end crusty thermal paste from my experience
Aren't you gonna have a bunch of air bubbles locked inside with that paste pattern?
@Admiral_Jezza . That may be a possibility. The pressure from the CPU cooler should remove if any air bubbles or pockets. It's always good to double check and make sure you have an even spread. I may have put too much on for this video. But temps seem to be running stable.
Nah! As the paste gets heated in it will spread just fine. You could see how it spread itself just by placing the cooler block on it. For laptops I just use a small dot as the CPU and GPU dies are so small. For desktop CPUs and GPUs I usually just apply an X.
LOL everybody commenting about the controller even though it clearly said it was stock footage. 😂
u play league with controller?!?
Yes, the aim assist really helps when I jungle
Why no one use Corsair thermal paste ? Ive been running my stuff for like 5 years no complains
I had this thermal paste already.
playing league on a controller is wild :3
best to repaste every 2 years.
That is a good rule of thumb.
Nah not needed that quickly at all unless you are using poor paste. Just repaste it when you notice temps rising a bunch... Have had my 3080 never been repasted and it's temps are the same as the day I got it on release. That's 3+ years of hardcore usage as well. CPUs are pretty much the same as well.
I change the thermal paste every week
@TheRomanianCrow you must have a lot of practice then.
10 seconds intro AND and obnoxious music? NO thanks.
thermal paste is just forum bait and ocd.
literally talk about anything else man.