CPU too hot?

[ninen2001]

Hey! For as long as I've had my computer I have noticed that my AMD Phenom II X4 965 runs hot. In the first 2-3 years or so I ran it with the original cooler and didnt change thermal paste often. However, after noticing that my computer sometimes would crash just playing CSS cause of temperatures, then having seen it go up to 115 degrees celsius in GTA V without crashing, I got a new cooler, the Cooler Master 212 Evo. It really sank the temperatures a bit and I've never crashed cause of heat. However, it still runs hot. And I remember that I thought it did when I just applied the cooler. But I was happy because the temperatures went down a quite a bit. Now as I'm writing this, just running Chrome with a few tabs open and some small programs like Skype etc, I have around 58 degrees celsius. Thats like the max temperature my friend reaches when he plays games, though he has an Intel processor which may be a completely different thing. Isn't 58-60 too hot still? I've started thinking that the temperature sensor maybe broken since before the cooler change, the temperature peak while playing GTA V was like 115-118 degrees, there's no way a CPU would reach those temperatures without the motherboard shutting down automatically, right? Right now my CPU goes up to about 80-90 degrees max when playing.

 

[Hamperking68]

115-118 Is very hot.

Try checking the temps in the BIOS are they the same?

 

[ninen2001]

115-118 Is very hot.

Try checking the temps in the BIOS are they the same?

Yeah, it never runs over 90-95 now wth the new cooler though. I haven't actually checked in-game temps yet. I just saw the idle temp and thought that its high. I haven't checked in the BIOS. I will have to try and see.

 

[atomicWAR]

yeah your temps are way to hot. You want to keep things ideally less then 85C under full load. I am for less then 70C but I also have a pretty hefty water cooling setup. Regardless anything over 90C is to hot and anything over 95C is critically to hot. Your lucky your CPU still runs at all at those temps. You need to check your bios as mentioned to see if your temps match up though its tough since you can stress the CPU while in bios. Check your idle temps in windows first and if they are roughly the same in bios then you need to think about getting a new cooling solution.

 

[Hamperking68]

Generally at 105 the CPU is well in TJMax and will begin throttling itself down to reduce the heat. If it climbs to levels of 110c most CPU's will enter Thermal Shutdown.

 

[ninen2001]

Sorry for late answer. I checked my bios and it was at around 51°C. Got about the same when I checked when running Windows. I just figured out how to use MSI Afterburner to show all the things like GPU temp, gpu load, cpu temp, cpu load, ram usage, fps etc all at the same time so tried to play some of the game Squad to see CPU temp. I played with everything on low + no shadows, 1920x1080. CPU load was around 50-60% most of the time and temp was almost always at 72°C. I had almost the exact same results on Rust running most settings on low and 1280x720. Sure, I only got max like 73-74°C but at 50-60% load. I don't think the problem is my cooler. I'm using the well-known Cooler Master Evo 212. I'll try to replace the thermal paste and see what happens, though I don't think it will do much. Maybe something is just wrong with my CPU.