1800X - Temperature

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Hi guys,

I am new to your forum so please excuse me if am doing something wrong.

My setup looks like this:

Gigabyte GA-AX370 GamingK7
AMD Ryzen 1800X @ stock
F4-3200C14D-16GTZR, Trident Z RGB
Corsair H110i GT
RM850i

I am currently running on stock but I would like to overclock my CPU to 3,9/4.0 if possible.
Bevore starting this I just did a little stress test on stock with Prime95 (Small FFTs) and noticed that the CPU goes up to 75° and the CPU starts throttling.

Is this normal? I thought my cooler should be able to handle the CPU without any problems. Does overclocking make any sense if I am already facing issues on stock?
Anything else I should test?

By the way:
Is there any good guide that covers overclocking with the K7 + 1800X? (Best bios settings etc.)

Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
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[LeKeiser]

First, you can check many videos on YT, you never spread the thermal paste with your finger or with a credit card or whatever you want. You'll never spread it as evenly as when you put a dot on the center on the die (2 grain of rice or something like that like the picture Barty1884 posted) and then fix the cooler. I've posted some videos a while back, but you'll find them easily enough.
I have a a Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 and I have no problem whatsoever with my 1700x and my 2666 RAM. And we are many without any problem on another forum. It's really a great motherboard. I use the F6 BIOS since this week-end, running great.
Oh, the temperatures you'll find in the BIOS aren't surprising at all. Your RyZen will run at full speed, there is no "idle" state when you are in the BIOS, there is no Cool'n Quiet running... You have to check the temps only when you are running Windows or Linux.
RyZen Master has an update, like I told you. It will give you the correct temperature now, which is the temp reported minus 20° if you have a 1800x CPU. The lastest HWInfo does the same I think, but why not trust the AMD program, heh?

Like I said, my idle temps with a Noctua D15s is around 37°, and while encoding, no more than 55° top. I applied the thermal paste the way I told you.
Oh here is one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNgFNH7zhQ&t=1s
Now, do whatever you prefer. But the motherboard is great, the RyZen is awesome, so...

 

[Barty1884]

While the application methods are hotly debated* (and I'll back the 'pea' or 'grains of rice' methods), two specific actions can impact temps dramatically.
1. Too little paste
2. Removal & resecuring of the cooler without replacing paste.

Your first couple of pictures show you removing it, and your last image of "new" is clearly too little.

Sounds like your temps are improving, but you're still struggling on the upper end and suffering throttling.
There's definitely something amiss here - but whether that's a paste/cooler issue or something else is tough to judge without knowing for sure you have an appropriate amount applied.

*I think it was LTT or BitWit that did a video on the different methods of application and their impact on temps - it was rarely more than a couple of degrees (unless either of the above happened).

 

[cyrog]

Hello there,

I have a similar setup as yours - 1800X with MSI X370 Titanium, but using air cooler. I was running Prime95 small FFTs test as well and my computer would crash at around 75c (Tdie) after 1 - 4 hours. When I lower the CPU load (less threads) to about 40%, average temperature is about 73.5c and the small FFTs test could run >4 hours without crashing.

So I disabled "Core Performance Boost" in BIOS, i.e. disable XFR and precision boost, I could run small FFTs at 100% load and the average temp was about 70.6c but average clock speeds were throttled by about 75 Mhz.

With your cooler setup and XFR disabled, I would think you should have no problem achieving stock speed at lower temperatures and oc-ing at stable temperatures. My ambient temperature is about 28-30c.

Hope this helps.

Hi guys,

I am new to your forum so please excuse me if am doing something wrong.

My setup looks like this:

Gigabyte GA-AX370 GamingK7
AMD Ryzen 1800X @ stock
F4-3200C14D-16GTZR, Trident Z RGB
Corsair H110i GT
RM850i

I am currently running on stock but I would like to overclock my CPU to 3,9/4.0 if possible.
Bevore starting this I just did a little stress test on stock with Prime95 (Small FFTs) and noticed that the CPU goes up to 75° and the CPU starts throttling.

Is this normal? I thought my cooler should be able to handle the CPU without any problems. Does overclocking make any sense if I am already facing issues on stock?
Anything else I should test?

By the way:
Is there any good guide that covers overclocking with the K7 + 1800X? (Best bios settings etc.)

Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
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