APU high temps

8766 · Jul 17, 2014

I'm using an amd a8 5600k and a coolermaster 212 evo for the cooler. Speccy shows my idle temps at around 65°C and when I go to play a game or do anything really it goes to about 80°C-90°C.. I have no idea what is wrong with it and I thought those temps were pretty high. Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong?

Twirlz · Jul 17, 2014

If you have high idle temperatures it's possible for the cooler to have poor contact with the CPU. Try reinstalling the CPU cooler with fresh thermal paste.

Also, what does the CPU-Z software say your CPU voltage is?

8766 · Jul 17, 2014

Twirlz :

http://gyazo.com/7a2dc1eb71a040f66cf53e3577b2c2d1

Also just yesterday I applied fresh thermal paste (arctic silver to be exact) and it didn't help.

6R1M01R3 · Jul 17, 2014

There are factors that can make the chip run hotter or cooler, like the ambient temperatures, airflow inside the case, overclocking, amount of thermal paste applied between the lid and the heatsink (pea in the middle), RPM of the CPU fan, etc.

marshal11 · Jul 17, 2014

You must be applying the thermal paste wrong, there is no reason for the CPU to be running that hot unless the sensor is broken. http://youtu.be/fRRWbQUqW1Y?t=3m35s

Also, try another temp monitor such as Coretemp. Anything hotter than 80c for AMD CPUs are too hot.

8766 · Jul 17, 2014

marshal11 :

I have coretemp installed and it shows everything as 0, any idea why? Another program I have tried is HWMonitor, which shows the same temp as speccy.

EDIT: Tried AMD Overdrive and it shows much lower temps.. i'm confused.

http://gyazo.com/3f57f81c3f4f231e01750d4f72770ccd

hunter315 · Jul 17, 2014

Did you tighten down the screws one at a time or diagonally and alternating? If you tighten one down too far before the rest you tilt the heatsink so it cannot make good contact with the heat spreader. Take a look and make sure it is sitting flat on the CPU and doesn't have too much wiggle to it, it will have some if you try hard enough to turn it. If Speccy and HW Monitor are agreeing then i'd say that you found accurate temps, definitely ensure you have good heatsink contact, high idle temps are a sign that the CPU can't get rid of heat well.

8766 · Jul 17, 2014

hunter315 :

I tightened it diagonally and all 4 screws are as tight as they would go, it turns a little bit but it's a little hard to make it turn. Is that maybe why?

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