Asus Corsair formula V : Why is motherboard temperature always high? Can this cause freezing?

[kernelfreak]

Hardware :
Motherboard : Asus Corsair Formula V
Processor: AMD FX-9590.

Hello friends,

I am plagued with FX-9590 freezing issue since a long time. I saw sometimes that no matter what the motherboard temperature is always too high, around 55-60 under hardly any load. Can this cause Freezing issue? I just cleaned it last week, and even after cleaning same issue. Thank you.
Images :

Higher temperature :

Thank you.

 

[MeanMachine41]

Hi kernelfreak

Ideal Temperatures are 10-15C above ambient room temperature at idle and 60-65C under load.

Your Crosshair V Formula MB has a max capacity for 140W TDP draw and the FX-9590 is therfore not fully supported. Furthermore the MB VRMs being meant for a lesser TDP draw, would get hot especially if you were to OC the CPU. This would cause the MB to shut down for safety.

The FX-9590 has a TDP draw of 220W and therefore requires a minimum H110i AIO.

The H80 is inadequate and reflected in the fact that your temperatures are excessive. The cooler would not cope under load conditions.

You can either get a more suitable MB like the Crosshair V Formula Z MB or a CPU with less demand that is supported like the FX-8350 at 125W.
If you wish to retain both the CVF MB and the FX-9590 then you will have to reduce your clock frequency and lower the Core voltage to reduce heat.

 

[Dunlop0078]

That is likely northbridge or southbride temp, if I had to guess its north bridge. No that should not cause any freezing. You are covering the VRM heatsink with the radiator, I doubt its getting very good airflow like that.

Instability with the 9590 is a VERY common issue, many people have to either underclock the cpu below its stock clocks or increase the voltage from stock to get them stable. Assuming your cpu temps are okay under load I would assume your freezing is being caused by an unstable cpu.

 

[kernelfreak]

Hi,

This is Formula-Z. Did I say something wrong while writing the post? Thanks.

Hi kernelfreak

Ideal Temperatures are 10-15C above ambient room temperature at idle and 60-65C under load.

Your Crosshair V Formula MB has a max capacity for 140W TDP draw and the FX-9590 is therfore not fully supported. Furthermore the MB VRMs being meant for a lesser TDP draw, would get hot especially if you were to OC the CPU. This would cause the MB to shut down for safety.

The FX-9590 has a TDP draw of 220W and therefore requires a minimum H110i AIO.

The H80 is inadequate and reflected in the fact that your temperatures are excessive. The cooler would not cope under load conditions.

You can either get a more suitable MB like the Crosshair V Formula Z MB or a CPU with less demand that is supported like the FX-8350 at 125W.
If you wish to retain both the CVF MB and the FX-9590 then you will have to reduce your clock frequency and lower the Core voltage to reduce heat.

 

[kernelfreak]

Hi,

Are you sure this has nothing to do with motherboard? Notice the black thing I am pointing in the image, it is getting very hot, I tried touching it.. Can that be a cause? Why does the first sensor always shows above 55 in corsair link? Any idea which one it is? Thanks.

That is likely northbridge or southbride temp, if I had to guess its north bridge. No that should not cause any freezing. You are covering the VRM heatsink with the radiator, I doubt its getting very good airflow like that.

Instability with the 9590 is a VERY common issue, many people have to either underclock the cpu below its stock clocks or increase the voltage from stock to get them stable. Assuming your cpu temps are okay under load I would assume your freezing is being caused by an unstable cpu.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Thats the VRM, that might be temp 1 but 50-65c is fine for a VRM. Most VRM's can comfortably run up to 100c some up to 125c or more. You can try pointing a fan at it and see if that helps, I had a fan zip tied in place so it would blow air down onto my VRM on my old system, but I did that mainly because I didn't have a VRM nearly as robust as the one on that corsshair and I was overclocking.

 

[MeanMachine41]

Ok you have CVFZ. I went by your initial heading.
You need to do some stress testing to determine the culprit however if the NB is too hot to touch then I would say that's the other problem. My NB never gets too hot to touch and I recon if you find it too hot by finger then it's well over 80C and would be close to shutting down. The other issue ofc is your AIO.

Your temps in LINK software indicate the system is not under load and therefore high temp at idle.
Also you do not need more than 1.375V on the core for a 4.7GHz stock frequency.
Go into your Bios and adjust core Voltage and at the same time disable Turbo core technology.
Try this and report back your temperatures. If you don't have it download CPUid HWMonitor and report its findings. Run a stress test on the CPU using AIDA64.