Athlon X4 750K Heat Problems?

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BulletSoul

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I have had a System with an Athlon x4 750k for about 2 weeks now, and ever since I got it the CPU has been running really warm.

My idle Temps are: 40-50C (Read using CPUID HW Manager)

EDIT: I went into my BIOS and the CPU Temps were between 30-35C. Could this just mean I am getting bad reading from CPUID Software?

I tried re-applying the Thermal compound that came with my Hyper 212 EVO, with no improvement.

Any suggestions?

PC:
MSI FM2-A75MA-E35
AMD Athlon X4 750K
Hyper 212 EVO
XFX Radeon 7770
CX500 PSU
 
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Azrael47
Many things can result in a so called 'hot CPU temperature'. Firstly the ambient room temperature or climate temperature where you live can have an effect. If were you live is cold and your room where your PC is situated is cool then your system will be ultimately cooler than a PC which is in a hotter climate with a hotter ambient room temperature. Cable management and air flow next, having cooling fans is essential to keep your system cool, generally speaking the more fans the better however you don't want too many as they can contradict each other. If you have a neat/tidy system with very little cables effecting the air flow then your system will be cooler than a messy and cluttered system were cables are in the way of your fans.

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miggtt699

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If you have messed around with overclocking, I would recommend you to reset the bios if you have messed with the Vcore. Voltage will increase your temperatures. Use various temperature reading software. I've had CoreTemp and it would read 10ºC lower than the actual temperature as I found out later when my computer was shutting down without even getting that warm.

Try:
Speedfan
CoreTemp
RealTemp

If all these keep showing the same temperature, run Prime95, if the processor doesn't shutdown and the program indicates a temperature where the processor was supposed to shut off, it's probably a sensor error/software bug.

Hope it helped.
 
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Many things can result in a so called 'hot CPU temperature'. Firstly the ambient room temperature or climate temperature where you live can have an effect. If were you live is cold and your room where your PC is situated is cool then your system will be ultimately cooler than a PC which is in a hotter climate with a hotter ambient room temperature. Cable management and air flow next, having cooling fans is essential to keep your system cool, generally speaking the more fans the better however you don't want too many as they can contradict each other. If you have a neat/tidy system with very little cables effecting the air flow then your system will be cooler than a messy and cluttered system were cables are in the way of your fans.

If I was you I would use multiple temperature monitoring software to be sure. You can try SpeedFan (A personal favourite of mine) Core Temp and Real Temp. These are all free/safe programs which you can use. With CPUID there are two different CPU temperatures, there is core temperature and socket temperature. Socket temperature tends to be 10 degrees higher than core temp. If you have overclocked then your CPU will obviously be running hotter. The aftermarket cooler that you have is a good and renowned CPU cooler and should serve you well. Those temperatures are safe and under the TJ Max of that CPU, however what is more important is what is the CPU temperature at full load.
 
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