AMD PHENOM 965 BE Temp woes

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Jay_g

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Hello guys and girls,

My old heatsink fan decided to get throw a wobbly so I have replaced it for the time being until pay day, and reapplied the paste. I thought I better check the temp, so downloaded HWMonitor to keep an eye on temps.

This is wear I am panicking a little lol. Mainboard and CPU0core both show the same value as the other (is this correct?), idling at 62degres c, and in game it shot up to 80!!

CPU1 is 34degrees c, with CPU2 43degreesC, in game the CPU1 rises up to 40-50, CPU1 up to about 65-70.

Now, when I restart it and jump into bios (after gaming) system temp is 34degrees c, with Cpu around 50 (big difference to the and 80 report in windows!). Even if I do the same at idle, it shows 35 for system, and 47 for CPU.

Now, obviously worrying about this, I have chucked more paste on, trying different methods each time I wiped the old and put on some new and there is no difference at all. I have gone through a whole tube of paste trying to sort it, trying from a grain of rice and squishing the cooler on top, to spreading it thinly over the CPU my self.

Any ideas? Should I not worry and just listen to what the bios is telling me?

Much appreciate

Jay
 
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too much paste will result in a lot worse cooling, secondly bios shows your so called idle temps , while gaming you can see what the temps are under load, so it goes up to 80 under load, i assume you have stock cooler(heatsink under the fan) , have you overclocked the system, your idle tems are pretty much ok i guess but under load 8o shouldnt be possible on phenoms since they should shut down long before reaching 80c, amd usualy have cpu's throttle to start @ around 62-70c
 
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You are using way too much paste from the sound of it. You want as little as possible between the heatsink and CPU. The BIOS is telling you a lower temp because in the BIOS the CPU isn't doing anything.

If you were overclocking anything turn off the overclock. You also need to make sure the heatsink is attached evenly. I'm not sure what the CPU1/CPU2 refers to as that's a 4 core CPU, but CPU1 is fine. if you want to monitor core temps use AMDs tool. Do NOT use HWmonitor. If you want to monitor the entire CPU temp use the motherboard manufactures tool which will let you read the motherboard CPU temp probe. More than likely HWmonitor is showing you junk data as you either have 4 cores, or one CPU. Not two.
 
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Jay_g

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Hi guys,

Yep, using the stock cooler. And nope, no over clocks. I'll get hold of the AMD tools, incase I struggle what is it called?

I'll also reapply the paste. There isn't a great deal on there anyway, but I'll reapply it thinly.

What is the best way to apply it?

Many thanks guys

Jamie
 
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Jay_g

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Right guys,

Luckily, I found a fan that fits my old heatsink perfectly. I reapplied the paste, much thinner this time, and it has "better" results.

Using HWMonitor still:

CPU1 31degreesC, CPU2 37degreesC (least these are closer now!!), CPU core and mainboard 55degrees c.

Temps are lower as you can see, I'll try inside a game shortly.
 
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