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April 6, 2014 8:57:07 AM

I recently bought a gtx 660 to go with my a10-6700. Knowing that it was a slight bottleneck I thought they would par well together withing my price range for a gpu. but while I am gaming my a10-6700 is self-overclocking to 4.2 ghz which its normal speeds are at 3.7 ghz. I havent touched it with any overclocking software. And with its stock cooler it is peaking at 107 celcius. Any ideas why it is getting so hot?? There are also alot of blue artifacts due to this overheating. Please help

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April 6, 2014 9:03:15 AM

107c means something is massively wrong with it OR the fan is not turning.

Did you ensure that the heatsink's thermal paste did not have anything on it?

If you have thermal past I HIGHLY recommend you get that cooler removed, clean the cpu and base of the heatsink and apply new thermal past and try again.
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April 6, 2014 9:04:12 AM

may help lower resoliution and if you play the games lower game settings for now,next think did the case have good ventilation all case fans working if you didnt clean the case long time ago maybe thats the issue,and repasting cpu may help too if the rig old enough.
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April 6, 2014 9:15:17 AM

nukemaster said:
107c means something is massively wrong with it OR the fan is not turning.

Did you ensure that the heatsink's thermal paste did not have anything on it?

If you have thermal past I HIGHLY recommend you get that cooler removed, clean the cpu and base of the heatsink and apply new thermal past and try again.

107c is on a full load but it averages in the 80-90 while I play games it can PEAK at 107c, new case, new pc (got it in december) just cleaned fans yesterday.
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April 6, 2014 9:17:24 AM

Nukes right it's probably the thermal paste. You may have removed the heatsink for whatever reason and possible cleaned it off unknowingly. Or you left the cpu exposed to open air and the paste dries significantly. Or you didn't plug the fan power back into the motherboard. Or your HSF is not seated correctly.
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April 6, 2014 9:18:16 AM

anthony8989 said:
Nukes right it's probably the thermal paste. You may have removed the heatsink for whatever reason and possible cleaned it off unknowingly. Or you left the cpu exposed to open air and the paste dries significantly. Or you didn't plug the fan power back into the motherboard. Or your HSF is not seated correctly.

never took cpu cooler off. fans spinning, never exposed to open air
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April 6, 2014 9:20:14 AM

It only started happening after you installed the gtx 660?
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April 6, 2014 9:21:39 AM

anthony8989 said:
It only started happening after you installed the gtx 660?


For the most part. Because I didnt game that much when I didnt have the 660. My guess is its trying to speed up to match the 660, rather than the 660 slowing down

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April 6, 2014 9:21:51 AM

Are we 100% sure that is Celsius because that is HOT(like boiling water hot).

You have to deal with this or things are going to have a short life.

If it is Fahrenheit, things are great as that would peak at only 42 degrees Celsius.
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April 6, 2014 9:25:53 AM

No the 660 is fed by the apu , if it isn't getting enough data a portion of the gpu will remain underutilized.
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April 6, 2014 9:26:03 AM

nukemaster said:
Are we 100% sure that is Celsius because that is HOT(like boiling water hot).

You have to deal with this or things are going to have a short life.

If it is Fahrenheit, things are great as that would peak at only 42 degrees Celsius.


yes. 100% sure its celcius. it idles around 60 celcius so I wont game until this is resolved.
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April 6, 2014 9:27:20 AM

nukemaster said:
Are we 100% sure that is Celsius because that is HOT(like boiling water hot).

You have to deal with this or things are going to have a short life.

If it is Fahrenheit, things are great as that would peak at only 42 degrees Celsius.


yes. 100% sure its celcius. it idles around 60 celcius so I wont game until this is resolved.
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April 6, 2014 9:29:50 AM

Can you post the model of your case? And is your CPU still under warranty?
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April 6, 2014 9:31:49 AM

I have the coolermaster 431 with one intake in the front. And not sure if its under warranty, I moved it to a new case which may have voided it
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April 6, 2014 9:35:01 AM

I'd suggest first purchasing some thermal paste. Remove your HSF and clean your CPU off. Apply a new coat of thermal paste and ensure that the HSF is seated properly making full contact with the cpu heat-spreader. If doesn't offer significant improvement, spring for an after market cooler. A Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo or the T4 are both great bang for buck HSF's that have always worked great for me.

Other than that, you can try and go through the RMA process.
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April 6, 2014 9:35:08 AM

Can we get a picture of the cooler? Does it look dusty?
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April 6, 2014 9:45:12 AM

nukemaster said:
Can we get a picture of the cooler? Does it look dusty?



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April 6, 2014 9:46:46 AM

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A picture of the inside of your case, specifically the CPU heat sink and fan.
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April 6, 2014 9:48:42 AM

Looks clean. Try the thermal paste approach. Then an aftermarket cooler. Either the paste is dried up to nothing, or the fan is malfunctioning.
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April 6, 2014 9:51:16 AM

I am going to but an aftermarket cooler regardless, but it wornt be until the end of the month... how cautios do I have to be with this until then
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April 6, 2014 10:07:58 AM

sporemasterjw said:
I am going to but an aftermarket cooler regardless, but it wornt be until the end of the month... how cautios do I have to be with this until then


Max recommended operating temperature of the APU is around 73 degrees Celsius. Do what you can to keep it under that temp until you can solve the problem.
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April 6, 2014 10:32:32 AM

That is a nice clean cooler. I am with the above on keeping it cool. I would say 80ish(max. even some review sites get up close to that) only because they are looking at socket temps and chances are you are looking at core temperatures.

Does the fan spin very fast when it gets this hot, Is the heatsink very hot to the touch. If it is not, the contact seems to be the issue and new paste will help allot.

As a 65 watt part, it should not be hard to cool.
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April 6, 2014 10:36:07 AM

nukemaster said:
That is a nice clean cooler. I am with the above on keeping it cool. I would say 80ish(max. even some review sites get up close to that) only because they are looking at socket temps and chances are you are looking at core temperatures.

Does the fan spin very fast when it gets this hot, Is the heatsink very hot to the touch. If it is not, the contact seems to be the issue and new paste will help allot.

As a 65 watt part, it should not be hard to cool.

I should be able to keep it under 80 for a month, do you guys happen to know how to lock cpu fan speeds? I cant hoot it up to the PSU because its a 3pin connector, but that might help with the issue regardless of noise.I have 1 80 mm fan that I can add to the bottom of my case if that wil help at all?
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April 6, 2014 10:43:20 AM

In the bios you should be able to disable fan speed control for the cpu fan.

You may be just as well to run the case open(side panel off or partly off) to see if it helps the temperatures as well.

It is kind of strange to have a 3 pin cpu fan and not 4 pin(the 4 pins do NOT match a molex connector on a power supply). They do make adapters that connect the fan to the power supply. They feed it ONLY 12 volts for full speed.

EDIT

Google'd you an image :)  Works with 4 pin fans too, the pwm wire(blue on most fans) just hangs off the end.


You should still be able to just tell the bios to run full speed anyway.
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April 6, 2014 10:47:08 AM

Ok, I will try that later... currently on my tv as my vga adapter for my 660 hasent come yet so I cant use my monitor and my ty refuses to display bios properly. Thanks for all the help guys you may have just saved my cpu!
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April 6, 2014 11:04:54 AM

Does the bios get stretched off the screen(can not see any edges as if they think you have a bigger screen)?

If so see if your TV has a mode called "just scan" or "original". TV's tend to overscan because TV used to have lots of noise/garbage on the edges of the image(this is also the place they used to hide close captioning data in analog systems).
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April 6, 2014 11:15:07 AM

nukemaster said:
Does the bios get stretched off the screen(can not see any edges as if they think you have a bigger screen)?

If so see if your TV has a mode called "just scan" or "original". TV's tend to overscan because TV used to have lots of noise/garbage on the edges of the image(this is also the place they used to hide close captioning data in analog systems).


Yes, it gets stretched off screen and no It has no original mode. But im not too worried about it because my adapter comes tomorrow.
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April 6, 2014 11:39:42 AM

sporemasterjw said:
nukemaster said:
Does the bios get stretched off the screen(can not see any edges as if they think you have a bigger screen)?

If so see if your TV has a mode called "just scan" or "original". TV's tend to overscan because TV used to have lots of noise/garbage on the edges of the image(this is also the place they used to hide close captioning data in analog systems).


Yes, it gets stretched off screen and no It has no original mode. But im not too worried about it because my adapter comes tomorrow.


It's odd that the GTX 660 didn't come with a DVI to VGA adapter. Every graphics card I've bought since the HD 6670 and GTX 550 TI came with one :/ 
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April 6, 2014 12:03:07 PM

You can always use the adapter off an old card, they are all the same(passive adapter and all).
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April 6, 2014 12:33:07 PM

nukemaster said:
You can always use the adapter off an old card, they are all the same(passive adapter and all).


never had an old card.. this is my first dedicated GPU
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April 6, 2014 1:01:31 PM

Did you look all over in the box too. Last 660 I got had 1 adapter for that too.

Ohh well, at least the adapter is on the way.
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April 6, 2014 1:25:57 PM

nukemaster said:
Did you look all over in the box too. Last 660 I got had 1 adapter for that too.

Ohh well, at least the adapter is on the way.


yes, only had 4 pin molex to 6 pin pci adapter
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April 6, 2014 2:37:10 PM

I am actually starting to think I am getting false readings... now the programm I use to monitor it is jumping between 76c and 92c rapidly... I use speecy
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April 6, 2014 2:51:52 PM

sporemasterjw said:
I am actually starting to think I am getting false readings... now the programm I use to monitor it is jumping between 76c and 92c rapidly... I use speecy


What does AMD Overdrive say?
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April 7, 2014 3:22:15 AM

After further tests with HwMonitor, it seems that my cpu is peaking a little over 80c during game which means i was getting false readings off the last program. Thanks for aall the assistance again guys.
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April 7, 2014 9:37:41 AM

little over 80 is still HOT(but for stock cooling in a warm room without great air flow in the case, I can see that), but no longer boiling water.
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