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I have had my PC for about a year and a half now and noticed that the Idle temps have been rising and rising, The other day i cleaned it all out but the Idle temps still aren't great. I also need to re-apply the thermal paste on the CPU so i thought i may as well just get a good cooler while i'm at it. Idle CPU temps are around 40 - 50C, my GPU temps are also around 50C while Idle but that may be to the fact i have 3 monitors running off it. Any suggestions on what cooler i should get? also thermal paste suggestions would be nice.

Specs:


Ram: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Desktop PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 11-11-11-30, 1.5V

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3, S 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.3GHz Base, 3.7GHz Turbo, 8MB Cache, 80W, Retail
LN51907

Case: Fractal Design ARC Mini R2 micro-ATX Compact Performance Case with USB 3.0 w/o PSU
LN54112


PSU: 520W Seasonic M12II EVO Edition, Full Modular, 80 PLUS Bronze, 40A 12v Single Rail, SLi/Crossfire, 1x120mm Fan, ATX, PSU
LN55705


Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-HD3, Intel H97, S1150, DDR3, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI, Micro ATX
LN57125


GPU: 4GB Zotac GTX 970 Gaming Ed, 7010MHz GDDR5, GPU 1076MHz, Boost 1216MHz, 1664 Cores, DP/DVI/HDMI
LN59904

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In terms of thermal paste, I've always used Arctic Silver 5 for my computers and consoles. It's cheap and does the job well. Now regarding the cooler, do you want to stick with air cooling, or move to liquid cooling? Personally, I use liquid cooling and get idle temperatures of around 15C, and have only hit 34C once under heavy load. I'd suggest liquid cooling with a Corsair H100i GTX if you've got the space / funds.
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Kinda depends on your budget.

A good budget cooler is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO.

But if you post your budget on a cooler and your currency, then it would help a lot.
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Sorry forgot about a budget, not too sure if i want to go liquid cooling although it would be nice so my budget is around 100 GBP. Thanks
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Even though you wont be overclocking but you want a cooler, you might as well get a decent one that performs well and looks good and if you do go down the route of overclocking in the future then you already have a cooler for the job.

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Either one of them two will do fine, both nice looking coolers and perform well.

For thermal paste, get yourself some Arctic MX-4 or Noctua NT-H1
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Thermal paste makes minimal difference. The majority of coolers come with pre-applied paste anyway that will do the job. Don't get an AIO, that'd be pointless and a waste of money, considering you have a locked CPU. 212 EVO is bad, m'kay, there are better/cheaper coolers. I wouldn't spend anything more than £40-£50 since you're not going to be overclocking, you just want something a little nicer, quieter, and cooler. A nice little budget air cooler would more than do the job. The Phanteks cooler above would be nice, you can get a Cryorig H7 for like £25 or something these days, which would be perfect IMHO, as long as it matches your aesthetic preference.

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Think i will go with the £25 cooler, thanks for suggestions
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