help CPU too hot

jonathan mercury

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Jan 20, 2016
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so i got a new cpu amd athlon 860k i installed it with the stock cooler and it became really hot high 80 70 s so i cleaned evrything and i applied new opaste bought a new cooler hyper tx3 so i was instructed that i needed to use amd overdrive to scan my cpu temperatures so i did that and i came out on 48/65 c but then i used another program calledCPUID HWMonitor and it says my temperatures are 70c 70c 193c wich i dont get bcuz my pc acts normal please help i need it

no stutter my mobo and some other specs: ASROCK FM2A58M-DG3+
Hyper X ram 8gb ddr3
GT 730 msi geforce
lc-power 450 watt psu
tx3 cooler

while gaming my thermal margin is 48 maybe lower and idle it is 70 65
 
Solution
AMD chipsets don't always report accurately, in fact, almost never, as actual temps. Use AMD overdrive and see what the actual thermal margin is on the CPU tab. Thermal margin will show AMD specific distance to thermal trip, rather than showing a specific temperature.
You need to find out what each temp is. Some will be of the mother board, including socket, and other of the actual CPU temp (core temp). Then search on google what is the maximum recommended temp for you CPU, only then decide if something is wrong.
 
AMD chipsets don't always report accurately, in fact, almost never, as actual temps. Use AMD overdrive and see what the actual thermal margin is on the CPU tab. Thermal margin will show AMD specific distance to thermal trip, rather than showing a specific temperature.
 
Solution


what would be a normal thermal margin temp under load and idle.
 
Anything more than only 10°C remaining to thermal margin under full load is good. Anything less indicates a problem or a better cooler is needed. Idle temps or margins are largely irrelevant since AMD thermal sensors or estimations based on TDP are lousy at the lower end of the spectrum.