A week or two ago before putting tara on a ssd, i used to run mint 18.3 on a hdd and after about 15-20 minutes of 0ad (relatively low spec game) gameplay the pc shut down, presumably due to gpu overheating.
So today for the first time i opened it up (it was not dusty, i have taken care of that several times before) and changed the 8 year old heat sink paste (was a sad sight) with the dot method.
Now right after boot the temperature according to nvidia x server settings is ~42 C but in a period of 3-4 minutes it steadily grows up to 65-68 C at about 1 degree per 10 seconds while only having the nvidia setting open (these are my start up programs, basically the same as a clean tara install, i even disabled the print applet https://imgur.com/26EF42B)
could i try anything else to reduce the temperature? maybe change some settings from nvidia x server settings? in the PowerMizer tab there is a Preferred Mode option set to Auto while it can also be set to Adaptive or Prefer Maximum Performance
thanks
EDIT: the heat sink paste i used https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3pcsx5g ... 38004.html
perhaps it's low quality
EDIT2: output of
inxi -Fxz
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System: Host: tarauser-Z87M-D3H Kernel: 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z87M-D3H v: x.x serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: F11 date: 08/12/2014
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-4460 (-MCP-)
arch: Haswell rev.3 cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 25539
clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 1318 MHz 2: 2328 MHz 3: 2050 MHz
4: 2340 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 9600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.106 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Def. Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-24-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (9.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_860 size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 220G used: 15G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
ID-2: /boot size: 704M used: 215M (33%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.52GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 0.0:68C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 204 Uptime: 15 min Memory: 1395.8/7914.2MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56