FX 6300 too hot? Advice please

[Brandon G]

I have been monitoring my CPU temps recently and under load I see 70°C to 75°C pretty regularly.

A few things:

This build is about 2 years old, so at the time of build I would guess it was a mid to mid-high gaming PC.

CAS: Xion Predator 970 Gaming Series Mid Tower Case w/ 2 External Removable HDD Bays
COOLANT: Standard Coolant
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.50 GHz Six-Core AM3+ CPU 6MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology
FAN: CoolIT ECO II-240 Extreme Performance Liquid Cooling System 240MM Radiator & Dual Fans
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory G.SKILL Ripjaws X
MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AMD 970 Chipset Socket AM3+ ATX Mainboard w/ Touch Bios, Ultra Durable 2, On/Off
POWERSUPPLY: 800 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 7870 OC GZ Ed by Sapphire

Also, the room ambient temp is about 80°F (26°C) as the pc is upstars.
The program I used to watch the temps is Speccy and AMD Overdrive.
The CPU is not OC, I started to run AMD Overdrive's Auto OC and stopped half way through because it was reading 75°C. However, it seems to hand around there and I haven't seen any higher so maybe that's a cap? Although, I have been careful to stop all load at that point as to not burn it up.

*I would like to add that AMD OC says the Thermal Margin is ~20-24°C at high load (during benchmarking or gaming on high-ultra settings).

Any suggestions or more info I need to provide to get a answer about these being normal temps? How are MoBo's at dispersing heat?

Thanks for any help!

Brandon

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Not accurate temperatures. Your PC would freeze right after you hit 67°C. FX temperatures are usually inaccurate, there are some rare cases it's accurate but the temperatures you're getting aren't. Your CPU runs around ~40°C, you don't have anything to worry about.

Note: Even if you hit the point where your OS will freeze, it doesn't mean you're harming it. The only way to harm a CPU is physically or intentionally increasing voltage to fry it the next time you save your settings and boot up, it happens so fast you won't even see the bios options.

 

[madmatt30]

If thermal margin is showing over 20c at load then you're absolutely fine mate.
Dont trust temps with speccy /hwinfo/hwmonitor.
Trust overdrives thermal margin &/or gigabyte easytune that came with your board.

The d3 is a decent board but has no vrm sinks ,meaning you still want some decent airflow coming in the front of the case.

 

[Brandon G]

Is there an accurate monitoring program for FX processors, or is it best to use AMD OD's thermal margin as a reference?

So I understand thermal margin better, a TM reading closer to 0 would mean the temp is getting higher, toward the threshold of the CPU's capibility?

 

[Brandon G]

Thank you all. I'll use AMD OD or Easytune from now on.