AMD fx 6300 idle temp high

[Snacks_1]

Hi, my idle tempature on my pc from startup is 78 celcius and gets higher from their... i have nothing running and i have noticed that it may be involved with me getting bad performance in games.

specs:


AMD FX-6300
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 667MHz
MSI 760GM-P34(FX)
GeForce GTX 960 4GB
600 watt psu
1TB Western Digital

 

[Rogue Leader]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

 

[geofelt]

At idle, a properly mounted cooler should show 10-15c. over ambient.
Perhaps a bit higher for a FX and stock cooler.

Remount the cooler.
Clean off the old paste.
Use only a small rice grain sized drop of new paste in the center.
It will spread out under heat and pressure.
Too much will act as an insulator and be worse; it is hard to use too little.

Make certain that the cooler is on square.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

With a 3+1 POWER PHASE and no heatsinks on the VRM it's going to run pretty warm.

Not a good board for an FX chip.

 

[Snacks_1]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

Iam using speccy. shows all my temperatures for my hardware. and a couple months ago i overclocked to 3.8ghz the stock is 3.5

 

[Snacks_1]

With a 3+1 POWER PHASE and no heatsinks on the VRM it's going to run pretty warm.

Not a good board for an FX chip.

so your saying my mother board isnt good for my cpu? should i change motherboards?

 

[Rogue Leader]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

Iam using speccy. shows all my temperatures for my hardware. and a couple months ago i overclocked to 3.8ghz the stock is 3.5

Ok the first thing you need to do is disable that overclock. That board should not ever be used to overclock an FX processor, the power phase can't handle it. Its possible you even did some damage along the way. And yes that motherboard is not good for any higher powered 6 or 8 core FX processor, and definitely not for overclocking one.

Second download AMD Overdrive

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

Check your temps in there. The temp in there is based off the thermal limit (the max temp of your processor), so the higher number the better. Let us know what that number is. AFTER you get rid of that overclock!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

That motherboard has FX in the title of the product , but isn't designed for one , for the reasons I stated before.

 

[Snacks_1]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

Iam using speccy. shows all my temperatures for my hardware. and a couple months ago i overclocked to 3.8ghz the stock is 3.5

Ok the first thing you need to do is disable that overclock. That board should not ever be used to overclock an FX processor, the power phase can't handle it. Its possible you even did some damage along the way. And yes that motherboard is not good for any higher powered 6 or 8 core FX processor, and definitely not for overclocking one.

Second download AMD Overdrive

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

Check your temps in there. The temp in there is based off the thermal limit (the max temp of your processor), so the higher number the better. Let us know what that number is. AFTER you get rid of that overclock!

recently just went in amd catalyst control center and saw that my minumum clock speeds of the cpu were the same as my max. RIP. i changed it backed to default now i' m a little cooler i guess. also i dont really no how to go back to my stock clock speeds because i overclocked on a different os and now ive recently installed a new os on a new hdd, so maybe windows thinks my oveerclocked speed is my stock. Still trying to see if i can go back

 

[Rogue Leader]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

Iam using speccy. shows all my temperatures for my hardware. and a couple months ago i overclocked to 3.8ghz the stock is 3.5

Ok the first thing you need to do is disable that overclock. That board should not ever be used to overclock an FX processor, the power phase can't handle it. Its possible you even did some damage along the way. And yes that motherboard is not good for any higher powered 6 or 8 core FX processor, and definitely not for overclocking one.

Second download AMD Overdrive

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

Check your temps in there. The temp in there is based off the thermal limit (the max temp of your processor), so the higher number the better. Let us know what that number is. AFTER you get rid of that overclock!

recently just went in amd catalyst control center and saw that my minumum clock speeds of the cpu were the same as my max. RIP. i changed it backed to default now i' m a little cooler i guess. also i dont really no how to go back to my stock clock speeds because i overclocked on a different os and now ive recently installed a new os on a new hdd, so maybe windows thinks my oveerclocked speed is my stock. Still trying to see if i can go back

What do you mean you overclocked on a different OS? If it was a software overclock it is gone. Or did you do it in your BIOS? You should go in and set your BIOS back to stock then if it may be set in there.

 

[Snacks_1]

How are you measuring 78 degrees celcius? That processor really should not be run over 75. Do you have a heatsink? Is it installed properly? Have you done anything inside the PC recently?

Iam using speccy. shows all my temperatures for my hardware. and a couple months ago i overclocked to 3.8ghz the stock is 3.5

Ok the first thing you need to do is disable that overclock. That board should not ever be used to overclock an FX processor, the power phase can't handle it. Its possible you even did some damage along the way. And yes that motherboard is not good for any higher powered 6 or 8 core FX processor, and definitely not for overclocking one.

Second download AMD Overdrive

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

Check your temps in there. The temp in there is based off the thermal limit (the max temp of your processor), so the higher number the better. Let us know what that number is. AFTER you get rid of that overclock!

recently just went in amd catalyst control center and saw that my minumum clock speeds of the cpu were the same as my max. RIP. i changed it backed to default now i' m a little cooler i guess. also i dont really no how to go back to my stock clock speeds because i overclocked on a different os and now ive recently installed a new os on a new hdd, so maybe windows thinks my oveerclocked speed is my stock. Still trying to see if i can go back

What do you mean you overclocked on a different OS? If it was a software overclock it is gone. Or did you do it in your BIOS? You should go in and set your BIOS back to stock then if it may be set in there.

i overclocked it on amd catalyst on an old os. now iam on a different os and i recently just installed catalyst and shows no state of being overclocked.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Which is correct as you did a software overclock. The only overclock that would hold is if you did it in the BIOS.

So this is good, no longer overclocked (keep it that way).

How are your temperatures now. Have you tried AMD Overdrive like I said to check the temps (its the most accurate way)?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

That board should never be used for overclocking.