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!

 

[Simboglide]

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.

Re-ran this morning, 70 degrees in the house,, bumping between 53 and 54

 

[GhislainG]

Between 53 and 54 at idle or at full load like running Prime95 Small FFTs?

 

[Simboglide]

Between 53 and 54 at idle or at full load like running Prime95 Small FFTs?

Idle, in desktop.

 

[GhislainG]

Idle isn't important; what are the thermal margins while running Prime95 Small FFTs? The higher the better.