High idle temps

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

Hi i posted yesterday and found out that it may have been the way my cooler was attached and it seemed to have solved the problem turned my computer on this morning temps of up to 42c just on the internet with a load on every core of 80 + the cooler is 100 % in the right place thanks for any help .

RaDiKaL_ · Feb 17, 2014

So.... while just browsing your CPU cores are having a 80%+ usage? look in task manager which process(es) are putting that load on your CPU.

Also full specs of your PC would come handy to be able to help you better.

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

42 is not high. But yeah Task Manager. Check processes

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

my specs are fx 8320, r9 270x, 120gb sdd , 1tb hard drive, asus m5a99fx pro r2.0 , 650 w corsair hx cooler master hyper 212 evo 2x 4gb corsair vengeance ram

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

On my stock cooler the highest i got was 10 c to 15 unless playing a game i would have thought having a better cpu cooler the temps would be lower not higher ?

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

How could it be 10 or 15. Is your house colder than that? AC? Your temps can't be lower than ambient

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

i dont know my ambient temps but i am going by core temp is that wrong or something?

RaDiKaL_ · Feb 17, 2014

fx8320 (or any vishera CPU) have this bug in their temp reports giving lower than ambient temps, like the 10-15ºc you mention you had, those aren't real values due to this bug.

In order to have precise temp readings you need to use AMD Overdrive, not even HWMonitor /HWInfo etc will be able to accurately read until AMD releases some hot fix for this (if they'll ever do that)

As Memhorder said, 42ºC is not a bad temp, could be better with your cooler though, perhaps thermal paste wasn't properly applied / bubbles formed in between while reseating your cooler as you mentioned in the beginning of your post?

Right now the only issue in your system seems to be that 80%+ usage of CPU, so find out which process is the culprit.

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

What do you use to Monitor Temps?

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

Yeah What RaDiKaL_ said.....CPU usage too high for internet.

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

windows explorer was using 15 % so i restarted it and now is using 0.2 % so thats something but i still dont know how it managed to get to 80% + over all of the cores nothing apart from that i cant find anything using more than 2.4 % i also downloaded malwarebytes and deleted some threats but that didnt help ..

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

And core temp

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

just downlaoded amd overdrive and it says thermal margin on each core is between 55 c and 61 c

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

Just wondering. Did you just start your computer up and notice? Thinking startup programs

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

no i have had my computer running for around an hour just watching youtube videos ... and general browsing but nothing has changed ... ?

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

Go into Asus Suite 2. Is your CPU still going at 80%

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

where do you find that ?

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

You have the same MOBO. Go Start Button, Programs, Asus, Asus Suite II

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

i am on windoows 8.1 i cant find it lol

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

Awww. I thought there was a start button on 8.1. hmmm I'm running 7

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

i used to run 7 i have had 8.1 for like 2 weeks lol

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

Well is the Ctrl+Alt+Del the same on 8.1? For Task Manager

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

i have task manager up it says 6 % cpu 30% memory so thats something but temps are still so high

Memhorder · Feb 17, 2014

yeah I hope Win 9 is better.

curtis1 · Feb 17, 2014

so any ideas on how to fix the temp ?

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