Mosfet heatsink gets very hot

[Spudmaster]

I played GTA V for about half an hour then I turned my PC off and I touched the mosfet heatsinks and after about 2 seconds I had to lift my finger off the heatsink because it was so hot. My motherboard is a GA-970A-UD3P and my CPU is an FX-8320 overclocked to 4.1Ghz

 

[mcnumpty23]

why would you go do that?

of course it feels hot your body temperature is 37c so touching something thats much hotter than that isnt a sensible idea

 

[Spudmaster]

why would you go do that?

of course it feels hot your body temperature is 37c so touching something thats much hotter than that isnt a sensible idea

I did this because I heard that mosfet heatsinks get warm but I didn't think they got that hot.

 

[mcnumpty23]

didnt you think to google how hot do pc mosfets get before touching one?

mosfets have heat ratings pretty sure some of them can take 100c

 

[Spudmaster]

didnt you think to google how hot do pc mosfets get before touching one?

mosfets have heat ratings pretty sure some of them can take 100c

I did google it but I didn't see anything related to my motherboard anyways thanks for answering my question.

 

[mcnumpty23]

thats ok--probably because you googled specifically for how how the mosfets on your exact motherboard got

if you just googled how hot pc mosfets get would probably have found something

main thing is you didnt burn your fingers

 

[jsmithepa]

You need a bigger boat, or heatsink.

But I don't trust finger, use your infrared thermo gun and tell us exactly how hot is it then we will tell you whether you need to do something about it.