A10 5800k with GA-F2A75 Overheating / sofware misreading

Rc Nikko

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Feb 25, 2014
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I have an A10 5800k with GA-F2A75M-HD2 mobo. I tried CPUID HWMonitor to monitor things up and it showed me scary temperatures (Open Hardware seems unreliable because its showing me temperatures of 20-30 degrees Celsius. My 580w psu was also struggling that it did also heat up (felt from case). It was idling around 70-80+ degrees Celsius so I reduced the cpu multiplier to just 34 (3.4GHz) with turbo boost enable to 3.6GHz. But after playing games (specially with games maxed graphics settings) it hit temperatures of 125. So I ended now underclocking it more to just 3.1GHz with no turbo boost. Now it idles around 57+, and around 65-77 in normal use , and when full load (gaming) it hits 90-106.

By the way I only have one stick of 4GB 1333MHz of ram, I know this ram is not good for APUs but the local store I bought it from doesn't have 1866MHz so I had to compromise with it for now.

Also, is it a problem if my 580w psu has only 4 pin cpu power connector? Because GA-F2A75M-HD2 uses 8 pins. And this psu is not a branded one (i.e Corsair). It already served my older Anthlon II X2 250 of which this build is replacing. I did bought a new 650w psu but was a generic type and it was very noisy that it heats up faster and hotter. So I had to put the 580w psu back which showed to be more stable.

So in my current settings (of 3.1GHz fixed) is it safe enough to work on? And if I buy a faster gpu than the igpu will it lessen the temp?