my PC is overheating??/

[xbaldryx]

my processor on my PC is over heating regularly mainly when i try to play games (easy ones like counterstrike) i have tried 2 new coolers a new processor and a new motherboard and i have no idea how to fix this as its my first time build

CORSAIR Builder Series CX500

AMD 860k (1st processor was 760k)

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 graphics card

ASRock FM2A68M-HD+ motherboard (1st was gigabyte f2a88xm-d3h)

G.Skill 8GB DDR3 ram

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 (1st was Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 GT Rev.2 )

running cs:go on about 70-80 degrees

 

[1LiquidPC]

What are you using to read temps? From my experience, only the "Thermal Margin" in AMD overdrive software gives correct reading for APUs.

 

[1LiquidPC]

What are you using to read temps? From my experience, only the "Thermal Margin" in AMD overdrive software gives correct reading for APUs. Also, the number reads reverse from the norm. The closer to 0, the hotter the CPU. A high number is cooler.