Should my AMD A8-6500 Exceed 80 Degree's?

[dvblucks]

I don't know how high it gets when I am playing games, but when I am casually watching a youtube video it exceed's 80 degree's. Is it safe?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

No, even with the stock cooler it should not be exceeding 80C while watching YouTube.

 

[Cole_9]

what kind of cooler are you using? I have heard of A series processors running that hot while sitting idle or doing minimal tasks like you have described, so technically it CAN run that hot, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with it. if you are using the stock cooler, I would replace it. AMD processors are known for including very poor cooling units, intels are too, preety much all stock coolers suck, but AMD is especially bad considering they run so hot. One VERRY popular choice for coolers on here is the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. Its cheap, and kicks butt in the price to performance market.

 

[Ecky]

Most programs other than AMD Overdrive will give false temperature readings.

 

[Cole_9]

personally I am not a fan of overdrive. I like CPUID HWMonitor. It gives you temperature reading and usage measurements of basically your whole system.

 

[Cole_9]

heres the download link
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

 

[Ecky]

Only problem is, the temperature readings are often nonsense. Overdrive is the only program that reliably reports APU temperatures.

 

[Mr Kagouris]

That's a good point. With AMD the temperature readings are inaccurate at idle (except with Overdrive). If you try a basic benchmark (e.g. Cinebench R15) to max out the CPU, you'll see whether or not there's an issue.

 

[Cole_9]

Really? I always thought amd overdrive was more confusing and innacurate. Where amd overdrive would show 40 degrees idle hwmonitor would show about high 20 to mid 30 degrees. Under load however on amd overdrive the temperature dropped down, and yes I said dropped down, to about 14 degrees Celsius. On hwmonitor it read about low 50s to mid 50s° Celsius. In the very unlikely chance this could be caused because I am using an FX series and not and a 10 series, i'm wondering which of the two programs is correct about CPU temperature

 

[Ecky]

Thermal margin is degrees left until it's too hot.

 

[Cole_9]

Thermal margin is degrees left until it's too hot.

Really. I didn't know that. I guess I will give overdrive another go.

 

[Ecky]

Actually, what I said isn't strictly true. AMD has stated that their CPUs don't measure actual temperatures, and a thermal margin of 15 isn't 15 degrees cooler than overheating, but you know it's cooler than a thermal margin of 10.

I like AMD's system, because people tend to flip out for instance when they see a temperature reading if 75c on an Intel chip, and think, "that's really hot", without realizing they can't use their intuition with these things. What's hot for a person is not hot for a CPU, and not all CPUs are the same.