Carrizo and MSI A68HM-E33 V2
mainboard. I had several issues with cooling and airflow in my computer case, but I'm finally getting to the bottom of the main problem.
After playing around with the Cooler Master Hyper TX2 CPU cooler and trying different things, I decided to give the stock cooler one more try, as I read in many reviews that temperatures should be at least 10 degrees lower.
So yeah ... the pre-applied stock thermal paste was the problem. Now I installed the stock cooler with the cheap OEM goop I bought 10 years ago, and now temps are normal. Under 100% CPU load the stock fan spins at up to 65% in 24*C ambient and the CPU stays under 55*C. Under the same conditions, the Cooler Master Hyper TX2
has let CPU temperature go up to 61-62*C at 100% fan speed.
I'm very disappointed in Cooler Master, BUT considering that it's a very old CPU cooler and it was dropped on the floor several times, maybe it doesn't function properly anymore.
AMD also disappointed me a little bit, as the pre-applied thermal paste has very poor quality, BUT it's a minor problem, when compared to Intel's glued CPU cap and the same crappy thermal paste inside, and also on the stock cooler.