I just built a new computer for my parents consisting of a Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H mb, AMD A10-7850k cpu and an Arctic Freezer A11 cooler. The cooler was to arrive a few days after everything else so I decided to assemble it using the stock heatsink. I got 40C idle temps with it and I installed win7 home premium on a new Sandisk Ultra II SSD using 8Gb of kingston hyper X Savage RAM.
When the Arctic Freezer A11 arrived I removed the stock heatsink and cleaned the cpu with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol. I applied the thermal paste as described and everything seemed to go fine with the mounting installation. However, now I am getting 55C-60C idle temps in bios and over 65C idle in windows 7. Watching temps it sometimes went as high as 80C and this is way too hot.
This is by no means my first build, I have made dozens of other builds with no such problems. I removed the heatsink and double checked everything and could find no issues. By the time I re installed the heatsink a few times I was down to using some 5-6 year old thermal paste of which I have no idea what it is anymore.
If I go buy some new thermal paste from a local computer store, should I not be able to get into the 20C-30C idle temp range?? I would like to OC the APU at least slightly.
Does anyone have any ideas or comments on exactly what to check and where the high temps might be coming from? the 40C under idle with the stock heatsink sounds about right to me, but after that nothing seemed to work. Perhaps I did not properly clean the top of the cpu or got lint or hair on it? I almost stopped when I was getting 50C idle in bios, then I upped the FSB from 100 to 104 and my temps jumped up to 70C+
I know I should not expect wonders from a $20 cooler like the Arctic Freezer A11, but should it not be at least a little better than stock?
When the Arctic Freezer A11 arrived I removed the stock heatsink and cleaned the cpu with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol. I applied the thermal paste as described and everything seemed to go fine with the mounting installation. However, now I am getting 55C-60C idle temps in bios and over 65C idle in windows 7. Watching temps it sometimes went as high as 80C and this is way too hot.
This is by no means my first build, I have made dozens of other builds with no such problems. I removed the heatsink and double checked everything and could find no issues. By the time I re installed the heatsink a few times I was down to using some 5-6 year old thermal paste of which I have no idea what it is anymore.
If I go buy some new thermal paste from a local computer store, should I not be able to get into the 20C-30C idle temp range?? I would like to OC the APU at least slightly.
Does anyone have any ideas or comments on exactly what to check and where the high temps might be coming from? the 40C under idle with the stock heatsink sounds about right to me, but after that nothing seemed to work. Perhaps I did not properly clean the top of the cpu or got lint or hair on it? I almost stopped when I was getting 50C idle in bios, then I upped the FSB from 100 to 104 and my temps jumped up to 70C+
I know I should not expect wonders from a $20 cooler like the Arctic Freezer A11, but should it not be at least a little better than stock?
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