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AMD Athlon Major Overheating!

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August 11, 2014 7:59:57 AM

Although I am not new to system building, I felt it was best to ask for some help before things get out of hand. I just finished a new personal build, but I am having major overheating problems with the processor. My new Build includes the MSI A78-E35 Motherboard, 8GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3, and the AMD Athlon X4 760k @ 3.8GHz (No OC). On startup, I am getting about 30-33C, however after running for around two minutes (about the time I get into Windows) the temp jumps to 60C+. And at load? 70-80C. After 180F, I just shut down the PC to be safe.I just replaced the Thermal paste last night (thinking the stock paste was the problem), however I have yet to see any change in temperature. The stock AMD fan is running at about 2800-3500rpm, but i am afraid to turn it up any higher. The Case has two 140mm intake fans, as well as a 120mm exhaust fan. IF anyone needs more info, Ill be gald to provide it, but at this point I have pretty much drained all of my resources, so I look forward to anyone who can help me with this. Thanks!

Full System Specs:
Chassis - Corsair SPEC-03
Power Supply - Corsair CX750M
Motherboaqd - MSI A78M-E35 FM2/FM2+
Processor - Athlon X4 760k @ 3.8GHz
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Crucial Ballistix RAM 1600, Single DIMM
Graphics Card - Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB GDDR5
Storage - 1TB WD Blue 320GB Toshiba

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August 11, 2014 8:06:16 AM

I hope someone has an answer to this because I'm curious as well. My friend has a 760K as well and it also starts at around 35 but it simply rises to 54, stops a bit and then starts rising again when starting things like the browser and rising up to like 80 degrees. Then I just shut it off.
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August 11, 2014 8:09:30 AM

The temps are wrong, speccy reads the x4 750k/ 760k chips incorrectly. Trust me.

My A10 CPU apparently ran 25 degrees over it's thermal max during games, yet it never ever throttled or broke or anything.

Use AMD Overdrive and monitor your 'thermal margin', ignore speccy and ignore HWinfo64's package temps.
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August 11, 2014 8:13:40 AM

Damric did a nice little guide explaining why AMD temperatures are hard to pin down:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2122665/understand...

FWIW my cpu socket temps never went above 53° while gaming so there's no way my core was at 90°c, ever
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August 11, 2014 8:14:40 AM

LucoTF said:
The temps are wrong, speccy reads the x4 750k/ 760k chips incorrectly. Trust me.

My A10 CPU apparently ran 25 degrees over it's thermal max during games, yet it never ever throttled or broke or anything.

Use AMD Overdrive and monitor your 'thermal margin', ignore speccy and ignore HWinfo64's package temps.


The thing is AMD Overdrive also says it's 68 degrees
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August 11, 2014 8:18:07 AM

No, AMD overdrive reports the distance from the thermal max, so higher = better :D 

Unfortunately it doesn't even start to get accurate until the chip warms up to over 45°

At idle / low temps, use the CPU socket temps as given by your motherboard sensor is the most accurate, but as the system goes under load use amd overdrive instead
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