Thermal paste is one of those things many people don't think about until they're installing a CPU cooler or troubleshooting overheating issues. But ever since I dealt with high CPU and GPU ...
No, it wasn't the cooler either. Just how it was mounted.
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 ...
If you've every thought thermal paste was a bit boring, you would have been right...until today! Cooler Master for some reason or another has decided to paint a CPU using its multi-colored Cryofuze 5.