AMD A10 6800K questions on temps.

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First off I built my brother a computer for Christmas. I'm completely new to AMD APU/CPU's, only ever owning AMD GPU's.

List of components:
AMD A10 6800K
AMD R9 270X
Corsair vengeance 8gb (4 x 4gb) 1600Mhz
1TB Western Digital Blue hard drive
Energex 550w bronze PSU
Bitfenix Prodigy Black
Bitfenix Spectre pro 230mm fan (Front intake)
Corsair AF120MM rear exhaust and top intake
MSI FM2-A75IA-E53 Motherboard
Silverstone Argon series AR02 92mm CPU heat sink

Now with everything listed, I'll state my problem. As said, I'm new to AMD APU's. I've been doing prime 95 to test stability of the temperature. HWMonitor said it would sit at 71-72 degrees celcius at 4.1Ghz. I did the OC genie which clocked it up to 4.4Ghz. The temps went to 73-74 degrees with the 3rd party Silverstone cooler. So I broke everything down which is a pain because I'm not a small guy with small fingers in a mini itx case. lol. Took apart the cooler, re-tightened everything and re installed thermal paste ( Arctic Silver 5). Put everything back together and checked temps again. Still at 71-74 degrees under 100% load doing Prime 95 as before running 4.4Ghz. I then read to check AMD Overdrive. Downloaded that and went into "CPU STATUS." Didn't do anything else. In there it says my core clocks are 4.3-4.4Ghz, all are under 100% load, but my temps are completely different. There the temps say 25 degrees Celsius across the board pretty much which threw me for a loop.

Any ideas what's going on? And any help if I'm doing something wrong would be appreciated. Sorry for the very long explanation and question. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[lazyboy947]

manually lower the voltages prob from auto which normally sit at 1.4v, 1.3v or lower will prob be as low as u can get maybe but lower the voltage will help especially if ur on stock auto voltages.

Is that with the fan speeds set to auto with the cpu temps? try manually upping the fans speeds as its a pwn fan

 

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Everything was auto. Same with the fans. I didn't even go into the advance settings in the bios. After an hour and 15 minutes of Prime 95, I got blue screened. Booted up fine though. I'm thinking maybe it's the cooler or I just installed it wrong. I wouldn't know. The only directions I got were in Spanish and Japanese. I can't really get another cooler in there though due to height restrictions.

 

[lazyboy947]

the cooler seems fine, i would surely lower the voltage and see if u can set the cpu fan for a higher speed and temp profile or completely disable the pwm and run at 100%. Reinstalling may help or possibly the lack of thermal paste used.

 

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I've read that HWmonitor can't read APU temps properly so ignore the core package temp as it will be wrong. They said to look at the TMPIN0 and TMPIN2 for the temps. TMPIN0 is your system temp and all that jazz and the TMPIN2 in the core temp of the APU. Now I don't have TMPIN2, I have TMPIN1. If I go off of that, my temps are around 48 degrees celcius during Prime 95. Is this true or anyone have knowledge of this?

edit: I forgot to mention I'm now using a Antec 620 closed loop water cooler.

 

[erodz1892]

I've read that HWmonitor can't read APU temps properly so ignore the core package temp as it will be wrong. They said to look at the TMPIN0 and TMPIN2 for the temps. TMPIN0 is your system temp and all that jazz and the TMPIN2 in the core temp of the APU. Now I don't have TMPIN2, I have TMPIN1. If I go off of that, my temps are around 48 degrees celcius during Prime 95. Is this true or anyone have knowledge of this?

edit: I forgot to mention I'm now using a Antec 620 closed loop water cooler.

Did you ever figure this out ? I'm having the same problem and it seems that most of these CPUs have the same issue I'm using an h60 with the normal 4.4 freq boost I'm using gigabyte mother board and downloaded their utility tells me that the temps are around 47c seems a bit odd