AMD 6350 Overheating But Fan Speed Not Changing

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Having just built my new computer (MSI AMD 970 Gaming Mobo + AMD 6350 CPU) and installed the Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO cooler I was pretty happy. I downloaded some temperature monitoring software and saw that my idle temp was at a healthy 20 degrees celsius. Now looking to do some overclocking I decided to first stress test my cpu with prime95 and was shocked when my load cpu temp was registering 67-69 degrees celsius at stock clock. Having read multiple posts and watched several videos on the hyper 212 + AMD CPU combo I realized that I should not be getting so high a temp. When I looked however at my CPU Fan it stayed, throughout the whole process, and it seems always, at 24% (according to hardware monitor). Any ideas as to the reason of my high temps? Is the fan speed not increasing possibly the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
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Such temperature under stress tests is very common.
However, just to be sure, monitor the cpu speed and temperature with any of the free tools available, throughout the test. Any real problem should be manifested in the form of severe cpu throttling. If you see a simultenous high temperature spike and a sudden drop in cpu frequency, it may be problemmatic, however if no such spikes and falls are seen, then it is perfectly normal. Let me know if that helped.
 
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Hmmm... From what I've seen it seems threads are saying below 60 degrees are good stress test temps when actually gettting an overlcock and mine is way beyond that at stock speeds.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2166273/question-cpu-temps-suggested-overclock-amd-6350-black-box.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1897992/amd-6350-max-temp.htmlUsing
Furthermore, in AMD Overdrive I saw that these temps corrosponded with a thermal margin of 2-3 degrees celsius until a thermal throttle.
So I do believe that these do seem to be high temps with this cooler and would not allow me to take it past stock clock. I am new to this so there may be an error in my understanding but thanks anyways for the help.
 
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Checkout the idle temperatures of the thread u have sent and compare it to yours. See the difference ? Anything from room temperature to your cabinet design to individual PCs may show that kind of variation. CPUs nowadays are designed to work at temperatures upto 100 - 105 C. But thats extreme. Under stress tests. if you are getting anything under 75 - 80 C, you are safe. Also, to be sure, open one side of your cabinet, keep it in an open space and then run the tests. Poor cabinet designs may also lead to higher temps.
Also as suggested by ccampy you can tweak the BIOS to run the fans at higher speed or download any free software for increasing the fan speed.
 
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Temps most certainly aren't fine - not dangerously so buy with a 212 you should be looking at mid 50s max under load.
& yes fan speed could have a lot to do with it,it should be ramping up to 50-60% once it hits 40-50c ,this could well be a fitting problem IMO.

 
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