AMD-8350 Temps ok? PLEASE HELP!!

[xXxPoserxXx]

So I'm recently new to PC building and built my first rig earlier this year. The other day I picked up a AMD-8350 Black Edition, 8 Cores, 32 nm, and at stock clocks. I had a Cooler Master D92 on my previous AMD-6300 (wanted a little extra horse power for some games coming up this year
😉). I installed it with some Arctic Silver 5 to hopefully keep it cool but I am unsure if this is the case. It was running VERY HOT, 55C at idle. So I decided to re-seat the heatsink and reapply thermal paste. (Cleaned off CPU and heatsink with 91% Isoproply alcohol.) I decided to try my last little bit of Arctic MX-2 to see if that helped. It brought my idle temps down to about 40-45C. Then I ran Battlefield: Hardline to see if my CPU was ok now, It was running at about 60% load. I am unsure if this is too hot or not. Should I RMA the chip or get my money back and put in my 6300 again?

Specs:
AMD-8350 @ 4.0Ghz (stock)
ASrock 990FX Killer Fatality Mobo
Cooler Master D92 heatsink (With stock fans)
XFX AMD R9 280X (stock)
Corsair Force LS SSD 240GB
WD Black 1TB HDD
ASUS Wireless PCIE Wireless Card
Corsair Spec-01 Case
Arctic MX-2 Thermal Paste
Corsair 750 Bronze 80+ certified power supply
3 Corsair Case fans (1 that came with case, 2x are 120SP Red LED. Setup in 2 Intake front mounted fans and a rear exhaust fan.)
Windows 10 64-Bit

Temps:
http://imgur.com/gallery/lSsja/new

 

[clutchc]

Yeah, something is not quite right. At stock with an aftermarket cooler, you should be around low 30Cs at idle and not exceed low 60Cs at load. Are you sure the cooler is properly mounted? Both fans blowing in the same direction? Cable management good and not preventing air flow throughout the case?

What are you using to read temps with, and are you reading core temps? If you want verification, use AOD and see what it shows for Thermal Margin. http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive
TM will be the opposite of core temps. The lower the TM, the higher the core temps. Let me know what that shows.

 

[xXxPoserxXx]

Yeah, something is not quite right. At stock with an aftermarket cooler, you should be around low 30Cs at idle and not exceed low 60Cs at load. Are you sure the cooler is properly mounted? Both fans blowing in the same direction? Cable management good and not preventing air flow throughout the case?

What are you using to read temps with, and are you reading core temps? If you want verification, use AOD and see what it shows for Thermal Margin. http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive
TM will be the opposite of core temps. The lower the TM, the higher the core temps. Let me know what that shows.

The cooler is properly mounted, both fans pushing air AT the exhaust fan. Like this : ------> HEATSINK ------> Exhaust Fan ------>
Cable Management is fine but there is a Optical Drive on the top of the case, from where the heatsink is pulling air from.
I've had my thoughts that the thermal paste is not being properly spread out of maybe too little or too much, not enough mounting pressure?
Cable management is mediocre but not obstructing any air flow.
Core temps bounce around a TON at idle, I think its because of the algorithm AMD uses to determine Core Temp, my core temps at idle bounce from 20C-45C in seconds. So I just went with the CPU temp on SpeedFan.
I will try AOD and get back to you!

EDIT: Tried AOD, Idle Thermal Margin are bouncing from 29C-38C in a few seconds averaging 33.66C. Will try gaming. ALL cores seem to be pulling 1.4 at idle.

 

[clutchc]

Idle TMs are good, but it shouldn't be bouncing like that. Since AMD only has a single sensor for core temp, all temps or TMs should read identical. Run AOD at 100% load and see what the thermal margin is. If it drops below 0, stop the test. While running the test, check to see if any cores drop from full clock speed; i.e. throttle.

 

[xXxPoserxXx]

Ran Prime 95 stress test for 30 minutes, temps stoped rising after that. Thermal Margins: MIN: 22.50C, MAX 37.25C, Average: 25.83C. No cores throttled. Is this ok?

 

[clutchc]

Ran Prime 95 stress test for 30 minutes, temps stoped rising after that. Thermal Margins: MIN: 22.50C, MAX 37.25C, Average: 25.83C. No cores throttled. Is this ok?

Yes, those are great numbers. Plenty of headroom with a TM of 22C. Did the numbers jump around like before?

 

[xXxPoserxXx]

Ran Prime 95 stress test for 30 minutes, temps stoped rising after that. Thermal Margins: MIN: 22.50C, MAX 37.25C, Average: 25.83C. No cores throttled. Is this ok?

Yes, those are great numbers. Plenty of headroom with a TM of 22C. Did the numbers jump around like before?

Thanks so much! The numbers only jump around at idle. Like all 8 cores show the same temp, just that temp jumps around at idle, but under load it is quite consistent.

 

[clutchc]

At idle that would be normal. "Housekeeping" that is going on at idle does not use all cores equally.