AMD CPU Overheating Issues

[CornBeef]

Hello everyone,
I've been having some fairly worriesome overheating problems with my CPU.

My rig is an AMD FX-8150 Eight Core Processor, a Sabretooth 990FX motherboard, an EVGA GTX 480 graphics card, and a Thermaltake water cooler.

Recently my CPU has been overheating for reasons I can't explain. I've been battling this issue on and off for about a year now, with no success. My rig idles at around 35° to 40°, but while working on something intensive like a game or photoshop, it jumps up to between 60° and 70°. I get temp warnings at 65° and my computer shuts itself down at 70°. It’s to the point where I’m getting warnings while simply trying to work in photoshop. I have good thermal paste which I apply fairly regularly, clean my computer weekly, and have a water cooler installed, yet still the temperature warnings occur. I had the CPU overclocked around a year ago, but once I started getting these warnings I reverted it back to the normal settings, but that didn’t solve the problem.

I’m not sure what to do and could really use some advice. I’m self taught so most of this is still quite new to me. I’ll greatly appreciate any help with this issue.

Thank you

 

[lukelaw]

The bulldozer based CPU's are extremely hot. try resitting your cooler, also check to see if you remembered to lower your voltage after removing your overclock

 

[Tetric]

Recently i had this same issue with my AMD 4170, got helped here, i have the same board than you, my MB randomly set my processor at 1.38 V (considering normal voltage for my processor is 1.25), this maybe your same issue! check it out on CPUz and the motherboard monitor itself.
This was my help post, i think it may help http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2192954/amd-4170-overheating-stock-cooler.html

 

[CornBeef]

Thanks for the feedback!
I've looked into it via my BIOs , and it seems like my Vcore voltage is at 1.35, but I'm hearing that it should actually be down near 1.25. I've attempted to change that with the Overdrive feature, but it doesn't seem to be working. In Overdrive I turn the voltage down to 1.25 and turn off the Turbo Core, which seems to work. Except upon a system reset (to check via the BIOS) everything resets.
I assume I'm doing something quite wrong. (my inexperience is showing)
I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to go now.

 

[Tetric]

I do think thats the normal voltage for your processor tho, if you want to change it open the bios, in the Ai tweaker put the voltages on manual and move your vcore voltage with + and - until you reach the appropiate voltage, one that doesnt reach too high temps and doesn't fail in performance, go step by step attempting to undervolt from 1.35 and slowly test under prime95 with every change until you find the one you looking for.

 

[CornBeef]

Thank you for the reply. My question now is, if that's the proper voltage for my CPU, then why is it overheating so badly and what can I do to stop that?

 

[CornBeef]

(Bump)

I've been attempting to reduce heat by making sure my machine is nice and clean, but that doesn't seem to be the issue. If my CPU is supposed to run at 1.35, then I'm hesitant to lower it. That also makes me think that there must be something wrong elsewhere, as the standard voltage probably shouldn't be overheating it.

 

[CornBeef]

Alright, thank you all for the replies.
I've just basically cleaned the entire computer as thoroughly as I could, applied new thermal paste, and reset the water cooler.
It seems to have cooled the computer down a couple degrees, and I haven't seen a heat warning since. The heat still remains high, but not at warning levels. I will continue monitoring it. Should the heat spike again, I believe I will need either a new water cooler or a new cpu. Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that.

Thank you all for the help.

 

[RealBboy360]

I have the same " AMD FX-8150 Eight Core Processor, a Sabretooth 990FX motherboard" and have major heat problems when playing video on a browser. Bigger the video screen the more heat problems. Maybe because my video is Nvida. I'm hoping windows 10 will maybe fix it. If not I might have to switch to intel

 

[Arshal Metallicka]

lol your processor is a power hungry machine """125W"", i know that most people here doesn't care about the their electrical bills, but you should know that the more power your processor consumes the more it'll be likely be prone to problems , APU is a bad idea in my own personally opinion because having your chip doing the job of both videocard(gpu) and CPU together would mean it'll overheat fast even though it's just 65 watt and never buy any AMD CPU that exceeds 65W if u want it to last long and never forget to get yourself an after market CPU cooler for your gaming rig