AMD FX-8320 heating up to 85°C while gaming

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My FX-8320 heats up to 85°C while gaming, and it causes my computer to shut off without notice. On idle, it runs 30°C I have a heatsink, but i have no idea what it is called, and it is not the heatsink that came with it. I would appreciate any help.
 
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NightAntilli

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You say you have a heat sink. It might be a stupid question, but I have to ask. Does it have a fan or is it only the heat sink? If it does, which way does it blow? You have to make sure it's not ruining your airflow.

Start with re-applying the thermal paste. I personally use the lentil size method, better known as the pea size method. In any case, this article will help you:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-heat-sink-heat-spreader,3600.html
 
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1) The FX 8350 is KNOWN to be an extremely hot CPU. But, 85 is WAY TOO HIGH. Buy a Noctua NH D14 or D15 cooler and get some GELID thermal paste and watch those numbers drop.
2) If u want a temporary fix, take the CPU Cooler out, and buy the best thermal paste on the market (Gelid Extreme works wonders) and then if its still bad, make sure the heatsink is big enough (Stock ones usually suck, I use a bequiet dark rock pro 3), but also make surer ur fans arent blowing the wrong way in roder to restrict airflow in ur system.
 
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Lickmykeyboard

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Just go reapply with the x method, your cores are on the top left top right bottom left bottom right of the processor. If you use any other method other than the x or spread the paste barely will spread to where the cores are.
 
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NightAntilli

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Not true... From the link I posted earlier:
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A delid FX CPU:
dvu7VNx.jpg


The cores might be in the corner, but what you see from the outside is not the whole CPU. The CPU itself is still in the middle.
 
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By facts the only purpose of thermal compound is to fill in the tiny micro holes in the lid of the processor so it can make contact with the heat sink. Just doing it pea or rice method won't cover most of the chip and that is the problem with most people who watch to many videos or read to much stuff online about from hardware websites is they start to become bias and they believe just about what any idiot with a camera or someone with enough time to write a bunch of reviews tells them vs actual scientific facts of how the stuff is supposed to work. Any real enthusiast or someone who has worked with with computers for a very long time will use the spread method. The people who believe that it creates bubbles etc just from pressing a piece of glass against it are idiots and don't understand that once it goes under heat most of those are gone, and even if it has 2 or 3 of them it won't affect it. It is just like how people think their really is a quality difference between the compounds it is all the same stuff get over it.
 
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