- Dec 25, 2013
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I recently built a rig for my little brother with a 6300 CPU, and it's run fine for months. Bro decides he wants to upgrade so I get him an FX 8320. I ran a few benchmarks to see if everything was running fine, and the results come back a lot lower than what would be expected. A Passmark CPU score ran back as 7,056, only marginally better than his old FX-6300. When I was going through the upgrading process I would receive mid 8's from the model.
Another concern is extreme overheating that's occurring. I decided to test its gaming performance and booted up Call of Cthulhu, (an 8 year old game that even a $200 laptop can run flawlessly). After about 10 minutes I take off my headphones to absolutely horrible fan cycling. Pop into AI Suite and find that the cooler is running at 3200RPM, and the chip is steady at about 72C. Even now it's idling at about 40C, which is incredibly high, even for a stock cooler. Nothing seems to be amiss in the voltages, BIOS settings, or fan controllers, so I'm at a loss for what could be causing this. At this point I've marked it down to a lemon CPU, but I'd like your guy's input before I RMA it.
Another concern is extreme overheating that's occurring. I decided to test its gaming performance and booted up Call of Cthulhu, (an 8 year old game that even a $200 laptop can run flawlessly). After about 10 minutes I take off my headphones to absolutely horrible fan cycling. Pop into AI Suite and find that the cooler is running at 3200RPM, and the chip is steady at about 72C. Even now it's idling at about 40C, which is incredibly high, even for a stock cooler. Nothing seems to be amiss in the voltages, BIOS settings, or fan controllers, so I'm at a loss for what could be causing this. At this point I've marked it down to a lemon CPU, but I'd like your guy's input before I RMA it.
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