AMD FX 8350 Stock Temp

the temperatures should go the max at about 70 degrees Celsius when under 100 % load and 35-45 when booted in to windows
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
to monitor cpu and
http://www.jam-software.com/heavyload/
to stress the cpu 100 % load
if your temperatures are 60 when booting and over 80 when stressing you might want to replace thermal paste.a pea size will do it

Try using 3-4 different types of CPU monitoring programs. Some are just bogus because they base the results off the clock speed and work load. A really good CPU temp at idle would be from 15-35c at around 20% workload towards the 35c end.

Unless you're in a very cold room then 10'C doesn't make much sense lol The standard temperature of a room is around 24'C and processors usually don't go below that even with water cooling. Also the 8350 is a 120W and usually runs warmer, i had the 6350 and using a Hyper 212 Evo cooler it would idle at 35'C and go to 60 during heavy use. Use other software, Try Speedfan

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Yea, I use speedfan, and love it. Just hovering over the icon in my toolbar gives me all core temps, system temps, and my gpu temp. Very handy program.

As for the 15c temps, those could be individual cores depending on the load of each core, some can be quite cooler than the highest. As long as any single core isn't idling above 40c, I think you would be alright (with a standard air cooler). Personally I use a H70 which keeps my temps below 50c even when I'm gaming and overclocked.

Yeah my speedfan did the same thing on my 6350 setup. GPU is your video card obv, HD0 is you hard drive temperature, and temp 1 2 and 3 is your board temp, cpu temp, and aux temp. Its tough to know which is which, i had to do some testing before it became obvious. Best thing is to run a stress test and see what see which one rises quickly and goes highest. that'll be your CPU temp.

I'm new here, but have been lurking a long time. I recently installed an FX8350 processor and immediately noticed quite the jump in temps. The processor went on the board, not long after I installed a new GPU. The previous processor was an Athlon II x645 Propus. Previous GPU was an HD6870. My rig is primarily used for gaming (LOTRO and SWTOR), but I am looking into making it into a developer platform as well (MySQL, SQL Server, Visual Studio).

I had no issue playing LOTRO, other than the temps. CoreTemp was reporting spikes as high as 71C. Not only that, I could feel the difference around the box. Ambient temps were somewhere around 68-72 F. Well, after logging search legs all around the Google-verse I finally came upon the topic of Core Performance Boost. I disabled it in BIOS, then tweaked the multiplier until I got my temperatures down to a satisfactory range. Ended up at 20.5x and this has been stable. I tried 21 but although no black or blue screens of death, I did get a system freeze. So I went back to 20.5x with CPB disabled. No other mods or tweaks in the BIOS.

Highest spike temperature I have seen since the BIOS update was a spike to 51C, averages between 44-48C. This was during game play. CoreTemp has reported a low of 14 and high of 31 during non game activity. This makes me happy. This makes my fans happy. This makes my MoBo, memory and processor happy

Presently running at 4.1 GHz with none of the heat issues I was experiencing prior to the BIOS change. I am not an OC'er. No interest in going there, although you OC'ers are a wealth of very helpful information. My rigs have to survive for some time.

My setup

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 Mobo Rev. 1.1
Radeon R9 290X GPU
Kingston Hyper X Blue DDR3 memory (4x4gb)
FX-8350 Black Edition
Coolermaster Evo 212 sealed with Arctic Silver
Soundblaster Z audio
Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS ATX Full Tower PC Case
Crucial M4 60gb SSD as booter
Intel 320 Series 120gb SSD for games
Seagate ST350041 (500gb) for storage, backup, etc.
Corsair 750W PSU
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit


eta for what it is worth, I disabled Core Parking via the registry. As an aside, and just for informational purposes only, my Windows Experience prior to the hardware upgrade was 7.3, 7.3, 7.9, 7.9, 7.9. After the upgrade and reassessment: 7.8, 7.8, 7.9, 7.9, 7.9. After the BIOS mods: 7.8, 7.9, 7.9, 7.9, 7.9.