monitoring temps for the cpu and motherboard

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Frank Markovich

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Cpu - 45 c after 30 minutes
Mother board - 34 same time

AMD FX 8320e
ASRock 970 Performance
XFX R9 285
2x4gb of Kingston Fury Hyper X 1866
Seasonic S12ii 620w

Are the temps normal for idle?
 
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35C to 40C idle reasonable for CPU, so you are maybe a little hotter than normal, nothing tragic.

How is your case airflow ?
Room ambient temp?
R9285 near the CPU or far away? (gpu throws heat into case, CPU will get hotter if card is close in some cases).
Assume stock CPU cooler.
Also suggest you pull temps from hard drive and video card at idle.
If this is an old build blow out the dust with compressed air.

CPU Load temps will tell you if the heat sink is not on correctly.
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35C to 40C idle reasonable for CPU, so you are maybe a little hotter than normal, nothing tragic.

How is your case airflow ?
Room ambient temp?
R9285 near the CPU or far away? (gpu throws heat into case, CPU will get hotter if card is close in some cases).
Assume stock CPU cooler.
Also suggest you pull temps from hard drive and video card at idle.
If this is an old build blow out the dust with compressed air.

CPU Load temps will tell you if the heat sink is not on correctly.
 
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Frank Markovich

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Case has one intake in front one exhaust in rear and one in side intake fans. Room temp is on the cooler side in winter and a little warmer in summer compared to rest of house. GPU is in the first PCI slot closest to CPU. Stock cooler, new build. No is or HDD yet.
 
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CPU cooler is great for CPU, not as much help for other heat sensitive MB components like voltage regulators. Consider if the case offers locations for additional fans, most aftermarket cases do. It might be cheaper and more effective to up the number of case fans vs. CPU cooler. Or do BOTH.

Glad you ran an experiment with moving the video card. It's nice to see data vs. guesses. Make sure you have at least 8 lanes of PCIe in the new location, some chipsets force MB makers to goto 4 PCIe lanes in second or third slot. The MB manual should tell you. I found one review that says you want to use PCIe slot 2 if possible. Your video card will operate with fewer lanes, but may (or may not) lose from frames. The MB is PCIe gen 2, not 3 so 8X slot is the lowest you'd want to go and 16X slot might actually make a difference.

"This 3-Way CrossFireX and nVidia SLI motherboard offers three PCI Express 2.0 video card slots, whereby either one video card can operate with x16 band-width, or two can operate in x8 mode, or two in x8 mode and one in x4 mode.
A SLI/XFire switch card is not necessary to get the optimal performance for single, CrossFireX or 3-Way CrossFireX operation.
If one like only use one video card on the 970 Extreme4, one should insert the PCI Express video card into the PCIe2 slot, in order to get the fastest x16 bandwidth." http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?http://www.ocinside.de/html/results/mainboard_asrock_970_extreme4.html
 
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Frank Markovich

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It was in actuality the 2nd slot from the bottom out of 5 available PCI slots to use. Alot of what u said is a bit over my head, I am a first time builder. Looking at the manual and cross reference from what you stated then the card needs to go back to the original spot.
 
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