I just recently purchased a new AMD FX-8320 along with a Gigabyte GA-970A. When I turned it on for the first time, I went into the BIOS to take a look around. I accessed the part where it lists the core temperature of the CPU and it was ranging from 45 - 57 degrees Celcius. That's WAY too hot! Why is this?
I was going to use an after market cpu fan, but I was having trouble installing it, and decided to use the stock fan for now. I wasn't sure if I should apply thermal compound to it or not since it already had some pre-applied, but I decided not to because I noticed another thread here that it wasn't necessary.
This is what I have hooked up to the main board:
XfX TS Edition Pro 650
FX-8320 w/stock fan
1 Crucial Ballistic 8 GB 1600 module
MSI 29x 2 GB Gaming GPU
The CPU is also making a lot of noise, probably working very hard to keep the CPU cool. So what is causing the CPU to operate so hot?
I was going to use an after market cpu fan, but I was having trouble installing it, and decided to use the stock fan for now. I wasn't sure if I should apply thermal compound to it or not since it already had some pre-applied, but I decided not to because I noticed another thread here that it wasn't necessary.
This is what I have hooked up to the main board:
XfX TS Edition Pro 650
FX-8320 w/stock fan
1 Crucial Ballistic 8 GB 1600 module
MSI 29x 2 GB Gaming GPU
The CPU is also making a lot of noise, probably working very hard to keep the CPU cool. So what is causing the CPU to operate so hot?
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