A10-5800K Cooling Problem?

[ajunner]

Hello,
I recently asked you guys if I should replace my thermal paste due to there being a tiny bit over the edge. I just took of my hyper evo 212 and used both articlean products to clean my CPU. This time I put less on and it hasn't gone over the edge however, temperatures or no better. It still idles at 45 C and reaches 78 C under maximum load with prime 95 according to speccy but Easy Tune 6 says it only reaches 51C? . I have disabled the APU as I am using a discrete card. Should I use push pull and if so how would I plug in another fan? Do theyy have to be the same? I am really confused.

Thanks!

 

[de5_Roy]

you should use amd overdrive to monitor temperatures instead of other utilities. check out damric's guide for details:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html

 

[LucoTF]

Speccy sucks at reading AMD cpus.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html

Push/pull won't make much difference to temps, a couple degrees at best over a single fan setup

 

[Stoneskinsnake]

Forgive me for asking, but why are you running an A-10 with a dedicated graphics card? I know that an A-10 with a R250X can go into crossfire mode, and with high quality ram (2100 Mhz or higher) the combo can really tear through alot of games that are playable now adays. My thing is, if you're not doing that, then why the A-10? It's a sub par CPU, when a better priced 70$ intel dual core CPU exist that can O.C. to 4.5Ghz easy.

Also, to the problem at hand. 78C ia not that hot for current gen CPUs. More than likely it has to do with the stock cooler provided with the A-10. For a modest amount of cash, (Something like 50$) you can get a CPU cooler that can keep the CPU pretty cool, even under load. If a stock cooler isn't cutting it temp wise for you, then an aftermarket cooler will definately improve the temps.

 

[LucoTF]

Forgive me for asking, but why are you running an A-10 with a dedicated graphics card? I know that an A-10 with a R250X can go into crossfire mode, and with high quality ram (2100 Mhz or higher) the combo can really tear through alot of games that are playable now adays. My thing is, if you're not doing that, then why the A-10? It's a sub par CPU, when a better priced 70$ intel dual core CPU exist that can O.C. to 4.5Ghz easy.

Also, to the problem at hand. 78C ia not that hot for current gen CPUs. More than likely it has to do with the stock cooler provided with the A-10. For a modest amount of cash, (Something like 50$) you can get a CPU cooler that can keep the CPU pretty cool, even under load. If a stock cooler isn't cutting it temp wise for you, then an aftermarket cooler will definately improve the temps.

He's using a CM 212 evo, he said so in the OP. Also the max temp for this APU is 74 degrees so 78 would in fact be unacceptable. Except it's not accurate.

Also, crossfire for the A10-5800k doesn't work very well and can cause some pretty bad stuttering, you're much better off just getting a stronger card and disabling the IGP. And while we're talking about stuttering, that $70 intel CPU stutters pretty badly on games designed for more than two cores.

 

[de5_Roy]

radeon r7 250x can't crossfire with the a10 5800k. only cards like radeon hd 6570, 6670 can.
@OP: when monitoring, check the thermal margin on load and idle. at idle, the thermal margin will be large and shrink when you load the cpu cores. the higher the thermal margin on load the better (edit: that means you're that far away from hitting the maximum temperature). if you notice any throttling or data loss during stress tests, check yout fittings, fan configuration, dust etc.