FX 8320 overheating/high temps

[harshp344]

Hi everyone,

I have a FX 8320 on a ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 motherboard, and it has been having really high load temps. The temperature gets up to ~80c when playing overwatch and other games, consistently. Idle temps are in the 40s, with a ambient temp of ~23. I have a hyper 212 evo as the cooler and have reseated it many times, but the temps seem to remain the same. I recently put the old AMD stock cooler back on to see if it was a heatsink problem, and the temps got even higher with that heatsink. Does anyone know what the cause of these high temps could be? Would really appreciate the help.

Thanks!

 

[izoli]

Are you properly applying thermal paste?

 

[Guest]

I have the same CPU, OC'd to 4.8Ghz, my idle temps are around 54C, so your idle temps are lower than mine. I would first check if your CPU is overclocked. If not, re-apply thermal paste(a piece the size of a grain of rice)to your CPU. And if that doesn't help, this CPU in general just runs hot.

 

[harshp344]

Yup, I'm properly applying thermal paste using the rice grain method. But the CPU overheats sometimes causing my PC to shutdown.

 

[Guest]

Yup, I'm properly applying thermal paste using the rice grain method. But the CPU overheats sometimes causing my PC to shutdown.

Did you check if your CPU is overclocked?

 

[izoli]

54C idle is a pretty absurd temp also even with that oc.

 

[izoli]

I assume your fan for the cooler is plugged in and running?

 

[harshp344]

Yup, I'm properly applying thermal paste using the rice grain method. But the CPU overheats sometimes causing my PC to shutdown.

Did you check if your CPU is overclocked?

Yea, its only the default turbo boost which makes it go up to 4.0ghz but no other over clock.

 

[harshp344]

I assume your fan for the cooler is plugged in and running?

Yup, fan for cooler is plugged in and running

 

[izoli]

Maybe it just gets hot easy and needs a big cooler to keep it nice and cool. I haven't had an fx but I hear they get warm

 

[Guest]

Yup, I'm properly applying thermal paste using the rice grain method. But the CPU overheats sometimes causing my PC to shutdown.

Did you check if your CPU is overclocked?

Yea, its only the default turbo boost which makes it go up to 4.0ghz but no other over clock.

I suggest turning off the OC and downclocking to 3.5Ghz if that is not already the stock speed. AMD(especially FX) CPUs run hot, much hotter than an Intel chip at the same speed. If you want to keep your OC and even OC further, I would suggest picking up an all in one CPU cooler. I have the Aquachanger 240. It comes with its own fans and it isn't loud at all(it also looks a lot more badass compared to a air cooler 😛).

 

[Guest]

Maybe it just gets hot easy and needs a big cooler to keep it nice and cool. I haven't had an fx but I hear they get warm

They do get hot. I need a water cooler to keep my temps down due to my OC.

 

[Simboglide]

Holy cow??? 54c??? I'm on to 4.0 and idle at 28,. Gaming, Zi haven't gotten it over 38...Cooler Master tx3.

 

[GhislainG]

Holy cow??? 54c??? I'm on to 4.0 and idle at 28,. Gaming, Zi haven't gotten it over 38...Cooler Master tx3.

How do you check the temperature? It usually isn't accurate with a FX CPU; what are the thermal margins when using AMD Overdrive?

 

[harshp344]

Holy cow??? 54c??? I'm on to 4.0 and idle at 28,. Gaming, Zi haven't gotten it over 38...Cooler Master tx3.

How do you check the temperature? It usually isn't accurate with a FX CPU; what are the thermal margins when using AMD Overdrive?

I'm using hardware monitor to check the temps. I just reseated the CPU on the mobo and put my 212 evo back on. The temps are hovering around ~73 but its still a bit higher then I'd like. The thermal margins show ~9c when I'm at ~73c.

 

[GhislainG]

9°C at load is low, but it won't throttle unless it gets close to 0°C or negative.

 

[Simboglide]

I use HWMonitor, let it run in the background, play a few rounds and check to see what my temps ran.

 

[GhislainG]

HWMonitor doesn't work well with AMD processors; why not use AOD to check the more accurate thermal margins?

 

[Simboglide]

HWMonitor doesn't work well with AMD processors; why not use AOD to check the more accurate thermal margins?

I also have MSI Afterburner on full time, think I should run a 3rd and compare the 3?

 

[Simboglide]

HWMonitor doesn't work well with AMD processors; why not use AOD to check the more accurate thermal margins?

I also have MSI Afterburner on full time, think I should run a 3rd and compare the 3?

 

[GhislainG]

AOD provides the thermal margins (distance to throttling), not the temperatures.

 

[Simboglide]

Wellllll,,, isn't that interesting, 51-ish, now, I guess the million dollar question is.....what program is the OP running to look at temps, and is 51-53c acceptable in AOD??

 

[Simboglide]

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  Ahhhhh

 

[Simboglide]

So,, as long as I can keep it below, say 80c, I/ we should be fine

 

[GhislainG]

51°C in AOD most likely is at idle; unless the PC is in a very cold room, it should be much lower at full load.