Idle Cpu Temp 50-60c in BIOS

[Aristocrat Jawsh]

I just finished building my first PC and when booting up and going to the BIOS the temperature rises at a constant rate and lands at 50-60 c and even a little over 60.

Do I need to reapply thermal paste?

I am using an AMD FX 6300 with the stock cooler

 

[Darkbreeze]

You absolutely need to do something. You've either used too much or too little, or don't have the stock cooler correctly installed. You only need about a rice grain sized amount of TIM directly in the center of the CPU. Double check the cpu cooler mounting as well. Make sure the cpu fan is connected to the CPU fan header on the motherboard. Idle temps should be somewhere below 30c depending on your ambient temperatures.

Make sure the CPU fan isn't upside down. I've seen them come accidentally oriented the wrong way before. It should be blowing down onto the CPU heatsink, not away from it.

 

[i7Baby]

CPU fan rpm?

You'll have to redo from start. Clean the old paste off with isopropyl alcohol. Put a small pea size drop of Arctic Silver 5 or MX4 in the centre of the CPU and attach the cooler.

 

[Aristocrat Jawsh]

You absolutely need to do something. You've either used too much or too little, or don't have the stock cooler correctly installed. You only need about a rice grain sized amount of TIM directly in the center of the CPU. Double check the cpu cooler mounting as well. Make sure the cpu fan is connected to the CPU fan header on the motherboard. Idle temps should be somewhere below 30c depending on your ambient temperatures.

Make sure the CPU fan isn't upside down. I've seen them come accidentally oriented the wrong way before. It should be blowing down onto the CPU heatsink, not away from it.

CPU fan rpm?

You'll have to redo from start. Clean the old paste off with isopropyl alcohol. Put a small pea size drop of Arctic Silver 5 or MX4 in the centre of the CPU and attach the cooler.

The CPU fan rpm is about 3500 and I'll order some soon, I'm just nervous to take off the heatsink again because the fx 6300 has such a tight fit

 

[Aristocrat Jawsh]

You absolutely need to do something. You've either used too much or too little, or don't have the stock cooler correctly installed. You only need about a rice grain sized amount of TIM directly in the center of the CPU. Double check the cpu cooler mounting as well. Make sure the cpu fan is connected to the CPU fan header on the motherboard. Idle temps should be somewhere below 30c depending on your ambient temperatures.

Make sure the CPU fan isn't upside down. I've seen them come accidentally oriented the wrong way before. It should be blowing down onto the CPU heatsink, not away from it.

I heard that the CPU doesnt idle in BIOS , so I may have said this wrong.

 

[i7Baby]

You can use your motherboard utility software to look at CPU and CPU fan speeds - idle and gaming.

3500rpm is good considering the temp. If you drop the idle temp to 40C max the fan should then run at about 1000rpm.

 

[Aristocrat Jawsh]

You can use your motherboard utility software to look at CPU and CPU fan speeds - idle and gaming.

3500rpm is good considering the temp. If you drop the idle temp to 40C max the fan should then run at about 1000rpm.

So uhhh... do I need the thermal paste?

 

[Aristocrat Jawsh]

You can use your motherboard utility software to look at CPU and CPU fan speeds - idle and gaming.

3500rpm is good considering the temp. If you drop the idle temp to 40C max the fan should then run at about 1000rpm.

So uhhh... do I need the thermal paste?