AMD FX-8350 Temperatures!!

[clutchc]

I have an unbranded mid-tower case, where my motherboard and graphics card hardly fitted in.
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I'd say 50% of your heat issue is probably the case. Can you post a pic of it w/the side off so we can see the inside? If not, Does the case have a vented top? Is the PSU top or bottom mount? Is there a side vent on the removable side panel?

Getting a good after market cooler will help, but it will still be hampered by a small case with limited air flow. The heat from the CPU will be trapped inside the case.

 

[Afraz Hussain]

I'd say 50% of your heat issue is probably the case. Can you post a pic of it w/the side off so we can see the inside? If not, Does the case have a vented top? Is the PSU top or bottom mount? Is there a side vent on the removable side panel?

Appreciate your reply but i guess the thermal paste needed sometime to settle down. Now i go hardcore on the gaming part and I get about 65C on the CPU and about 80-85 on my GPU 😀

As far as your questions are concerned, no, my case doesn't have a vented top. The PSU s bottom mount. And there is a 220mm stock fan on the removable side panel. I am thinking of replacing this fan because I think there are better case fans out there which can keep my case cooler. So, I was thinking of getting a 120mm 2500RPM fan for the back of my case and upgrade my current vent fan on the side panel. Any suggestions on that?

 

[praveen1996]

yes you can buy a new fan for the back side and dont waste your money on getting side panel fans and after reading so many issue i conclude that the case plays a major role on air cooling cpu fans(reply whats ur cpu cooler) and if u can buy a water cooler. the reason why amd did nt publish their max temp because the normal opt temperature with their cooler is around 70c.so dont be afraid warranty can be claimed for overheating reasons if not overclocked

 

[Nathan Sempsrott]

I'm using the stock cooler too at the moment. Also 4 case fans, 3 intake 1 exhaust. I don't know what software options your motherboard comes with, if any, but I have an ASUS M5A97 R2, and the software suite that came with it gave me an option to adjust the fan speed a different temps. It was running a little hot so I just adjusted the fan's speed to kick up at lower temps than it was set to. Still a little hotter than an aftermarket cooler would be, but since I'm not doing a whole lot of heavy processing its a temporary way of keeping things from going too wrong.

Right now I idle with light usage (web browsing, youtube, stuff like that) around 33 C. Using prime95 I pushed the temp in about 30 seconds to over 65 (don't know exactly, wasn't actively monitoring at the time). Gaming gets me to around 50, but for me gaming right now is just CoD4 and BF2, since I'm only running an HD5450 right now.

So basically my input is if you have no money, try to raise the fan speed. If you have a little bit of money, get an aftermarket fan cooler. If you have more money to spend, I'd try to get a new case and water cooling.

 

[Nathan Sempsrott]

Also, be wary of core temp if its showing you crazy low temps. Sometimes if I have my motherboard's monitoring software up and I open up core temp, it shows much lower values than it should be showing.

 

[clutchc]

+1^
Yes, Core temp (and several other temp monitoring pgms) seem to have trouble getting an accurate temp reading with these latest AMD processors; FX, APUs...

 

[Afraz Hussain]

Yea what you guys are saying must be true, but till now, I guess, I did not get any inaccurate temp from the temp monitoring prgms. But yea the core temp software does show me 255C all of a sudden when i will be running prime95. So i guess that counts as an inaccurate reading.

i havent OC'ed my CPU yet, but when I do I will make sure that I buy a new aftermarket watercooler. Until then, I am happy with the stock cooler.
It just need to be configured from the bios. you should disable Q&C and set fan speed to about 85%. thats what i did at the beginning. and then got satisfied with the stock cooler.

 

[clutchc]

If you can put up with the noisy stock cooler with C&Q turned off, you're good to go. If it gets too noisy, go with an aftermarket cooler and turn C&Q back on. My 212 EVO is very quiet with Speedstep on (equivalent of C&Q for Intel)

 

[Afraz Hussain]

true. It does get alot noisy. But I really don't mind it at all. If anyone else is looking for a less noisy PC then I would recommend you to get an aftermarket cooler, preferably watercooler.

 

[Zer Inerte]

i have a secondary question.... what if you live where there is no AC and the room temperature gets to the 36°C

 

[Nathan Sempsrott]

i have a secondary question.... what if you live where there is no AC and the room temperature gets to the 36°C

You hope you have a good enough cooler. Or stay at stock speeds and don't push the cpu too much. I live where it gets up to around 30 where my computer is, and have never had to much of a problem. Granted, never been in that situation with my 8350, as I have only had it a couple months now.

Anyways, just watch your temps, increase fan speeds if needed, and don't try and push it if it gets hot.

 

[clutchc]

If you are going to be stressing the CPU for long periods of gaming in 36C (97F) temps, you probably should invest in an aftermarket cooler. Not that the high temps would cause the processor to overheat and damage itself, but when the core temps get close to the TjMax, the processor will start to throttle back to save itself. The result will be loss of performance.

 

[praveen1996]

@clutchc iam also in same problem..
i want to know that loss of performance will even exists after installing a water cooler.
and explain about performance loss..
i will buy a new watercooler in 3months

 

[vinnovs]

If you are really that worried, buy the Hyper 212 evo. I have it on my FX 8350, and under max load it usually is 38 degrees Celsius, at idle it is usually at room temperature or a little above it, which right now is about 14 degrees Celsius in NJ. Thats with the Vcore calibration set to high and the turbo core set to 4.4 GHz. Gaming wise it will probably keep it around 34 degrees, since all of the cores wont be used and the cores won't be maxed out all the time. For peace of mind, buy an after market heat sink, especially if your gaming for longer periods of time.

 

[vinnovs]

If you are really that worried, buy the Hyper 212 evo. I have it on my FX 8350, and under max load it usually is 38 degrees Celsius, at idle it is usually at room temperature or a little above it, which right now is about 14 degrees Celsius in NJ. Thats with the Vcore calibration set to high and the turbo core set to 4.4 GHz. Gaming wise it will probably keep it around 34 degrees, since all of the cores wont be used and the cores won't be maxed out all the time. For peace of mind, buy an after market heat sink, especially if your gaming for longer periods of time.

 

[Katana man]

what happens if the cpu over-heats upto 70C?? It just went upto 71C now

Don't try to O/C with the stock cooler. It is just able to manage cooling the 125W TDP of the processor at stock. When you O/C and then stress the CPU, it will produce more than 125W.

No I did not OC the CPU. Its running at its stock speed with these temperatures! And like I said, it went upto 71C Max when I played Crysis 3 at Max setting for about 2 hours
Should I get an aftermarket cooler? Which one would you recommend?

I'm running an fx8350 overclocked to 4.4 ghz, with a proper cooler and lots of fans I can game at 4k 60fps on some games and downsample from 4k to 2k in others like black ops 3. The cpu gets hot enough that I've had to take a cheap option of just placing the midi tower case on it's side with side open and fan in background nearby because the demands of 4k and 2k gaming really push this cpu to the max. The point is that 4.4ghz made the games run fine at 60fps on hdmi2 kogan uhd 4k 60hz, I tried at stock speeds and there was noticable micro stutter whereas just overclocking to 4.4 made all the difference. This is on a gigabyte gtx 1080 g1 on a slowly dying sabertooth 990fx mb with 16gb ram. It's pretty easy to do a small overclock in bios and it helps significantly with the fx8350.
Proper gaming case and proper fans or improvise on side with fan technique sadly, Really need to upgrade to zen when it's out next year but for now the fx8350 is still holding on tooth and nail to high end gaming.