Savage2001, Thank you for posting in the Intel® Communities Support.
In reference to this scenario, you mentioned "performance on games has gotten low a lot ever since I switched cooler", just to confirm:
How are you detecting/monitoring that the performance of the games is not the same?
Which aspects have gotten slower?
Is it happening with all the games or just with a specific game?
In order to make sure and rule out a possible hardware problem with the Intel® Processor, we can try the following:
-Please get into the BIOS of the board and reset all the values to defaults
-Disable any Overclocking option or feature
-Disable XMP profiles on memory RAM
After that, please run the Intel® Processor Diagnostics Tool, it does an overall test on the unit and if it passed the test it means that it is working properly:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19792/Intel-Processor-Diagnostic-Tool?wapkw=ipdt
In order to monitor the temperature on the system, please install the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility, it will provide a real-time temperature value so we can discard an overheating problem:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29183/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU-
If the problem persists after that, please provide the SSU report so we can verify further details about the components in your platform, please check all the options in the report including the one that says "3rd party software logs":
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25293/Intel-System-Support-Utility-for-Windows-?product=91600
Any questions, please let me know.
Regards,
Albert R.
Intel Customer Support Technician
