Fx 8150 overheating

[Shimundo]

So about a week and a half ago I did a full clean up of my case and put new paste on the cpu and today my cpu started overheating again.

I'm running stock fan on a amd fx 8150 not overclocked

Case-Thermaltake Commander MS-I ID
GPU-gtx 550 ti
PSU-corsair hx750 750w
cpu-amd fx 8150(stock everything)

 

[darth pravus]

Did you clean off the old thermal paste?

The stock heatsinks are know to be very poor. A coolermaster hyper 212 evo would sort you for little money.

What makes you think it's overheating anyway?

 

[Shimundo]

Did you clean off the old thermal paste?

The stock heatsinks are know to be very poor. A coolermaster hyper 212 evo would sort you for little money.

What makes you think it's overheating anyway?

I did clean the old paste and put as5 on it, I don't have holes for screws on my mobo so I don't know how I'd install a hyper 212

 

[Shimundo]

Did you clean off the old thermal paste?

The stock heatsinks are know to be very poor. A coolermaster hyper 212 evo would sort you for little money.

What makes you think it's overheating anyway?

Also the reason I know its overheating is because I'm using core temp to monitor my temps and while under load I'm getting to 75

 

[darth pravus]

75 is still safe. If you don't have any mounting holes then how is your heatsink held on currently?

 

[Shimundo]

75 is still safe. If you don't have any mounting holes then how is your heatsink held on currently?

It's being help by two clips one on each side

 

[darth pravus]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[womble]

No mounting holes is a bit unusual, I just assumed all modern AMD boards had them. There are a few coolers though that will clip onto the standard retention clips though so might be worth digging around on some multi cooler reviews and a reasonable cooler doesn't have to cost much. The Evo is often suggested as it offers pretty good bang for buck.

Akasa do a few and I imagine cooler master do, there will probably be some better options. Frostytech is a good site for cooler tests.

I've only built one 8150 system and the stock cooler whilst looking the part only just seems to cope. As for the noise...

 

[Shimundo]

What motherboard do you have?

I have the asus m5a97 mobo

 

[darth pravus]

Seems like that board does have mounting holes.

 

[Shimundo]

Seems like that board does have mounting holes.

That's odd I wonder why mine doesn't?

 

[darth pravus]

Maybe you need to take out the screws currently in the holes.

 

[Shimundo]

Maybe you need to take out the screws currently in the holes.

***.......

 

[Shimundo]

Best answer selected by Shimundo.

 

[womble]

There is a decent youtube vid for installing the Evo and it looks like you just unscrew the stock brackets. It is a popular choice so I'm sure someone will chime in.

 

[darth pravus]

Glad it's sorted now 😉