AMD FX-6300 Temperature

Hello. I have a question. I recently bought a new PC to run mmorpg games at nice FPS. I have AMD FX-6300 CPU, MSI Ati Radeon 7790 OC VGA, Asrock 970 Extreme3 motherboard. For now I have a stock cooler, I will change it in 2 or 3 months, so my temperature in Tera Online for example go at 65-66 degrees C maximum (but constant). Will it be safe like that for 3 months? Will my cpu be damaged? Or something else from my pc? Here's a print with Everest.

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Thank you.

Between 39-44 degrees. Can I overclock it to 4.1 ghz with the cooler stock ? When I use the x boost option, it runs at 3.8 ghz instead of 3.5 and it has less temperatures. With like 3-4 less. Why ? It's my first time having a performant pc, I never overclocked since I couldn't, so I'm a newbie with these things? What could I do now for better performances, even a bit, but keeping my computer safe?
Right now my cpu temp is 36 degrees.

Thank you for feedback Have a great day! I'll get a new one, can you give me a recommendation of a good cooler which would keep good temps if I would overclock it to 4.5 ghz? Besides the aftermarket cooler I'll add one more fan to my pc case Segotep SG-Z2.

Since this thread is about FX-6300 temperature, I won't open up a new thread (hope the author won't mind), to ask the same question, but with a slightly different situation.

I do have an AMD FX-6300, MSI 970A-G46 motherboard, 8 GB Kingston DDR3-1600 MHz dual channel RAM (probably not important for this test) and Sapphire ATI HD4870 video card (also probably not important). What's really conclusive for this test is the cooling part. I do have an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2 cooler on CPU, 2 92 mm fans on the side (intake), blowing towards the CPU, 1 92 mm fan on the rear (exhaust), 1 80 mm fan (intake) at the front and 1 80 mm fan (exhaust) at the top. I also have a 80 mm fan inside to cool a HDD (but this probably has little to no effect). All the 6 case fans are regulated by a build in controller, set to auto, it regulates from 7V to 12V (fans have different speeds, so I better gave the voltage instead). CPU and GPU have their own PWM connectors.

Now, the problem. MSI Control Center 2.5 (motherboard own monitoring software) reports temperatures of 52-53 degrees at idle and 65 degrees when tested with IntelBurn Test (probably an Intel tool, but I think it works with any processor, if not please tell me a suitable one for my processor), full burn, maximum stress. I selected this to emulate the stressful conditions inside a demanding game. I do not render anything, not work with applications demanding stressful situations, only video games (occasionally).

Now, my fan controller is faulty. Most of the times it works, but sometimes it shuts down by itself, only to randomly start again (have no idea why this happens, i thought it was a faulty connection, but I now think it's a hardware issue inside). When this happens, air flow is reduced inside the case and my CPU temperature raises to 56 (idle) to 72 (full load).

My question: What to do ? How much my processor will take this ? Assuming my controller works, still the temps are not correct, right ? I mean, around 60 degrees (on average between idle and full load). But what can I do ? I used the pre-applied paste on the CPU sink, I mounted the sink well. One annoying thing is that the CPU fan is sucking air that is coming from the power supply fan (120 mm). I don't know if that fan is blowing or sucking air. But one of the 92 mm side fans is blowing cool air on the CPU sink as well, so I could say that the heat sink is cooled by 2 fans (one by casualty).

So, should I be worried ? I couldn't mount the heat sink in any other way, due to motherboard and case design. Will a better and powerful sink lower the temps ? Shall I use a better sink paste ? I would really love to hear some answers to all this.

Thanks.

I also have the FX6300, and I used to have the Freezer 7. Does your PSU mount on the bottom of the case or the top? Sometimes if it's on the bottom, you have the option to mount the PSU upside down, which would mitigate some of the hot air blowing toward your heatsink.

Before I mounted an after market cooler (I use this now: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-013-PT) my CPU would sit at around 35-40 C idle, and the highest it ever got (while running GTA IV) was just above 60. As I write this, I've just finished playing Borderlands 2 for most of the night, and my CPU temp reports 19C ... so I think there's a lot to be said for fitting a better cooler.

To be honest, I don't think 92mm/80mm intake/exhaust is quite enough and I'm fairly sure that the freezer 7's 92mm fan won't really cut it either. I would suggest upgrading your cooler, but it sounds like you may not have the space. So... the only thing to do really is upgrade your case. I have the Sharkoon T9, it comes packed with 3 x 120mm fans (2 intake, 1 out), and the option to have your PSU exhaust out the bottom. Also ditch that fan controller, man! For the most part your motherboard's PWM settings should take care of the fan control for you.

In summation: change your case, upgrade your cooler (like someone else said, get a H60/H80/H100 if you can fit it) and ditch that fan controller.

Well, I can't upgrade the cooler just now, after I bought a brand new one last month, it would be just waste of money (which I don't have). I thought about upgrading the case, but this is not a solid option, since I am fond of this case, it's a solid case, I like it, it has a built in nice fan controller, bottom line is that I am attached to it. But I considered the option. Yes, maybe 80/92 mm fans are small, but when on earth it came to this ? I have PCs since 1996 and at that time, the only fan in the system was a 60 mm (or so) fan on CPU. THAT'S IT ! No case fans, no PSU fan, nu GPU fan, no HDD fan, nothing. And now, 9 fans in total (the smallest is 80 mm, the biggest 120 mm on the PSU) isn't enough. Maybe if I would fit a water cooling system I will escape cheaper, since a new case plus additional nice silent Noctua fans and fan controller would cost me a lot. Another factor I am sure influences the system temps is the room temperature, which is about 30 degrees centigrade (don't have AC). My PSU is at the top, fan sucking hot air from the bottom and exhaust it at the back.

Hello. I have a question. I recently bought a new PC to run mmorpg games at nice FPS. I have AMD FX-6300 CPU, MSI Ati Radeon 7790 OC VGA, Asrock 970 Extreme3 motherboard. For now I have a stock cooler, I will change it in 2 or 3 months, so my temperature in Tera Online for example go at 65-66 degrees C maximum (but constant). Will it be safe like that for 3 months? Will my cpu be damaged? Or something else from my pc? Here's a print with Everest.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/802/13248441.png/
Thank you.

I have a question
Is it possible to shut down or start up the cores on this processor as we wish?