Cooking With AMD

[Cybran]

So I've been playing this week and this Friday I opened up Speccy for my usual checkup. I noticed my CPU's temperatures skyrocketed from 90 to 105-107 Celsius. I repeat, Celsius, not Fahrenheit. To my surprise, today it reached 117 degrees. 117.

I know that I should check the inside of my case but, my actual question is.
Why did it gave just beeps and didn't instantly shutdown? Is my CPU a dragon? A strong warrior? Is it made out of some magic metal that has everything under control?
Should I sing "Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys? Maybe it will help my CPU to open up and talk of how much strength it has? [:cybran][:cybran][:cybran][:cybran][:cybran][:cybran]

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

What is it saying the bios ? try a different monitoring tool

 

[synphul]

A more accurate tool for amd cpu's is their amd overdrive software. It should report back temps as a number of degrees until thermal throttle occurs, using thermal margin rather than reporting back an actual temperature. 117c sounds like an erroneous value, it would be hard thermal throttling long before that and would probably have shut down by then.

 

[Cybran]

I downloaded it and while the cores are working at 50% its a thermal margin of 35-40. How's that?

 

[synphul]

There's no real way of telling at middle of the road percentage levels. It varies too much regardless of which cpu or which brand. It seems fine in terms of the margin, 35-40 means you've got 35-40c until you reach thermal throttle. It's not likely to overheat at 50% load, (nor is it usually a very accurate means of taking measurements).

It's better to test at full load using a stress test, for temp concerns preferably a steady state load like prime 95 with small fft's. There are a number of stress tests that focus on various aspects of the pc, the cpu, memory, storage, graphics. Things like intel burn test, aida64, prime95, asus rog realbench etc. Many of those are cyclic loads though so they're constantly fluctuating.

At partial load it's difficult to say, it might be 35-40c until throttle and with adequate cooling be fine at max load or it may be 35-40c and under full load it's right at the threshold for thermal throttling.

 

[mdd1963]

Not all tools give accurate temps for various AMD processors; AMD Overdrive is one reported to work well by other users...

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

 

[Cybran]

Thanks Syn, I got it solved today anyway, my thermal margin reaches 70 and get way better temperatures at high loads. I feel fine with it, don't need to stress test anything. Thanks anyway.