fx6300 always at 50c on idle and on load

[Danielphingston]

my CPU temperature just doesn't change and stays at 50c at full load and on idle
using stock cooler
is it bad that it is always at 50c?

screenshots


idel

http://imgur.com/QrsLxY9

full load

http://imgur.com/bx8SfxB

 

[Eliasand]

What software are you using to check the temps? The only accurate one for AMD is their own OVERDRIVE software.

 

[Quixit]

Depends, if CPU cooler keeps spinning up and down to keep you at 50C it's fine. But I suspect that your temperature monitoring software just isn't working. I recommend HWINFO64 for monitoring.

 

[Danielphingston]

What software are you using to check the temps? The only accurate one for AMD is their own OVERDRIVE software.

i actually tried with a lot of software including overdrive they all show 50c
i am assuming thermal margin being 20c is 50c

 

[Quixit]

I'm guessing that the temperature monitoring doesn't work and it's either a bios or hardware problem.

Thermal margin is the number of degrees C between your current temperature and the CPU's rated max temperature.

 

[Eliasand]

The thermal margin is the temperature gap between the current temp and the temp limit. I believe the limit for the 6300 is 75c, after that it will shut down to protect it self, that unless you have the setting disabled in the BIOS.
If the thermal margin value on OVERDRIVE is showing 20c, that means the temp is 75-20=55c. 55 when the CPU is at idle workload is quite high. Have you checked the temps during full load?
You can easily check by using the CPU-Z 'Stress CPU' option while having Overdrive open.

 

[madmatt30]

They're fairly dire temps from the screen grab when most of the cores are clocked down to 1500mhz & voltage is less than 1v.

How olds the build ?? Has it always been like this ?
What's the mb model ??
What's the case model & what's your airflow like ??

 

[Pr0tEN]

Maybe it's a defective thermal sensor on the CPU.

 

[Danielphingston]

They're fairly dire temps from the screen grab when most of the cores are clocked down to 1500mhz & voltage is less than 1v.

How olds the build ?? Has it always been like this ?
What's the mb model ??
What's the case model & what's your airflow like ??

its like 3 years old and i dont know if its always been like this i sort started noticing it recently
motherboard is a msi 970a-g46
case is an iball velocity i dont think air flow is that bad the cpu is directly facing a vent
could it be a power supply problem? caus i read that my cooler master extreme power plus 500 is really bad :|

 

[madmatt30]

Nothing to to with the psu mate.
I'd say one of 4 things

1. The CPU socket temp sensor on the board has gone bad (fx CPU's do not have any kind of sensor built into the chip itself)
2. The CPU fan is failing
3. The heatsink itself is compromised by dust.
4. The thermal paste on the CPU needs replacing.

Point 2 you'll know easily just by how fast & noisy the fan is running.
Point 3 - unscrew the fan (just the fan) off the heatsink by removing the 4 screws & give the heatsink fans a good clean with a small brush /can of compressed air / and or a vacuum cleaner nozzle.

What's odd is there's virtually no temp increase under load

 

[Danielphingston]

Nothing to to with the psu mate.
I'd say one of 4 things

1. The CPU socket temp sensor on the board has gone bad (fx CPU's do not have any kind of sensor built into the chip itself)
2. The CPU fan is failing
3. The heatsink itself is compromised by dust.
4. The thermal paste on the CPU needs replacing.

Point 2 you'll know easily just by how fast & noisy the fan is running.
Point 3 - unscrew the fan (just the fan) off the heatsink by removing the 4 screws & give the heatsink fans a good clean with a small brush /can of compressed air / and or a vacuum cleaner nozzle.

What's odd is there's virtually no temp increase under load

i tired cleaning it it didnt show any difference
the fan spins at around 4000rpms

i also tired looking at the bios setting
apparently it was in msi's oc genie mode and every other mode cause my pc to freeze up randomly and also the temps were lower in idle at arround 30c but i couldnt do anything caus of randomly freezing
i back on the oc mode right now
could it be the motherboard is broken or something?

 

[Danielphingston]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

 

[Eliasand]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

 

[Danielphingston]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

 

[Eliasand]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

A Hyper 212 EVO would lower the temps considerably, but since we don't know if the thermal sensor is faulty it's hard to say. Have you tried to run with the case open, and see if it makes a difference?

 

[Danielphingston]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

A Hyper 212 EVO would lower the temps considerably, but since we don't know if the thermal sensor is faulty it's hard to say. Have you tried to run with the case open, and see if it makes a difference?

i dont think the sensors are wrong cause b4 sleeping the processor isnt working correctly and stays at a low clock speed and temps of around 30-45 and after sleeping it would have a high clock and higher temps of 70 +

im assuming something doesnt work as intended as sleeping basically fixes its performance but increases the temp
but is the problem cpu or the mobo?

 

[Danielphingston]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

A Hyper 212 EVO would lower the temps considerably, but since we don't know if the thermal sensor is faulty it's hard to say. Have you tried to run with the case open, and see if it makes a difference?

i went and got my self a 212x and temperatures are insanely low now 😀 19-21 idle and 40 max

everything looks good now i dont have to sleep my pc to get better performance and it doesn't crash on default settings
i have peace @_@

 

[Eliasand]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

A Hyper 212 EVO would lower the temps considerably, but since we don't know if the thermal sensor is faulty it's hard to say. Have you tried to run with the case open, and see if it makes a difference?

i went and got my self a 212x and temperatures are insanely low now 😀 19-21 idle and 40 max

everything looks good now i dont have to sleep my pc to get better performance and it doesn't crash on default settings
i have peace @_@

nice! A bit strange that the stock cooler was that bad, but since you got it fixed for such a low amount of money we're all happy 🙂

 

[Danielphingston]

sleeping my pc makes the temperatures rise along with the scores on cpu z
but it still doesnt vary and stay at 75-79c

75+ is very high. If i'm not mistaken the CPU should turn it self off at those temps to protect itstelf.

should i get a better cooler or should change the processor or motherboard or all together ?

so many weird interactions with this processor ,im running with the better clocked mode after sleep and using power profiles to keep it at a low temperature right now....

A Hyper 212 EVO would lower the temps considerably, but since we don't know if the thermal sensor is faulty it's hard to say. Have you tried to run with the case open, and see if it makes a difference?

i went and got my self a 212x and temperatures are insanely low now 😀 19-21 idle and 40 max

everything looks good now i dont have to sleep my pc to get better performance and it doesn't crash on default settings
i have peace @_@

nice! A bit strange that the stock cooler was that bad, but since you got it fixed for such a low amount of money we're all happy 🙂

yeah im surprised that a broken cooler could cause these kinda problems, anyway thanks for your help