AMD FX 8350 Heating Issues

Bharat Mane · Mar 27, 2015

Dear Experts,
Please apologize me for repeating this question. But most of the answers are not helping me.

Recently I build my PC with below config
1. AMD FX 8350
2. Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
3. Asus Radeon HD 5450 (1GB Graphics card)
4. Kingston FURY 8GB (1866MHz)
5. Seagate HDD
6. Umax 600 W Smps
7. Deepcool Gammaxx 300

I have recently upgraded the BIOS too.

WIth all this, i am not able to use my PC for more than 5-10 minutes. Tempreture shoots up to 65 degrees and my UPS starts beeping and it switches off the current.

If I just use with basic tools like MS office or simple browsing i don't see any issue. However, when i start Visual Studio 2013 temperature starts shooting up and i end up shutting down my pc.

I contacted AMD for this, they replaced my processor but no help.

I wanted to know is there anything wrong with board, or graphics card...?

Please help me as I am not at all able to use my brand new PC.

Kind Regards
Bharat

kanewolf · Mar 27, 2015

65C for an 8350 CPU just sitting at the desktop is way too high. Your heat sink should be able to handle it easily. There has to be something wrong with the installation of your cooler.

I think your main problem is that the UMAX power supply is junk from what I can read. Your UPS is beeping because you are overloading it (because of the JUNK power supply) or it has a bad battery. You need to find a better quality power supply from one of the top tier vendors in the power supply list.

4745454b · Mar 27, 2015

While I agree that the PSU/SMPS is horrible, it shouldn't cause a heat spike. Your cooler probably isn't on correctly. You are using the stock one? I'd take it off, put on new paste, and try again.

Unolocogringo · Mar 27, 2015

First try plugging straight into the wall . Not the UPS it could be a bad battery or not strong enough.

Bharat Mane · Mar 27, 2015

Thank you for your quick response, I will try changing power supply. However, power supply may not be the root cause. Another thing is I am not using stock cooler, I am using Deepcool Gammaxx 300. This one I got to know from another thread.

How do i ensure that the voltage is default or heating issue is not caused because of any wrong settings in bios?

Bharat

Bharat Mane · Mar 27, 2015

When i connect directly to wall, it works but temperature stays there to 65 degrees and whole surrounding seems very hot...my work area too, very uncomfortable to work and always worry what if something goes wrong...

Bharat

Bharat Mane · Mar 27, 2015

Would there be any issue with Asus Radeon HD 5450 (1GB Graphics card)?

4745454b · Mar 28, 2015

Having a GPU in your computer won't cause your CPU temps to rise that much. Too hot in the room, or the HSF isn't on correctly.

Bharat Mane · Apr 4, 2015

Dear Experts,
After so much of frustration on this, I changed the SMPS to Corsair VS 550
And motherboard to Asus 990fx pro 2.0.

Now system runs for 2-3 hours and again i end up with same issue where temp rises up to 67 degrees, and system keeps giving warning and at times it shuts down...

Can anyone tell me what's going on as I changed almost everything
Processor Changed
Cooling fan changed
Motherboard changed
SMPS changed

((((((

Bharat

Dark Lord of Tech · Apr 5, 2015

Deepcool Gammaxx 300 can't cool a 8350 . it's no better than stock.

Bharat Mane · Apr 6, 2015

MisterSprinkles :

My room tempreture is about 30C...summer is near it might go up

((

Bharat Mane · Apr 6, 2015

Any suggested cooler...How about Corsair h100i....?

I am worried a lot as i am spending so much of money and still no luck... One observation tough...I see the rise in tempreture only when I start using Visual Studio 2013...would there be any relation with the graphics card that i have?

Bharat

Bharat Mane · Apr 6, 2015

MisterSprinkles :

Your GPUs heat will have very little impact on your CPU. That is a very low end very low power GPU you have.

You should have never gone AMD in the first place. You are finding out now that properly supporting a hot, power hungry chip that beats up motherboard VRMs turns out to be more expensive than going Intel, despite the CPU itself being cheaper.

You shouldn't be running platforms like Intel's 2011/2011v3 or AMD's AM3+ in India simply because of the TDP of these parts. Not only will they heat the room they are in even more, as if India weren't hot enough already, but also, you may find the termperature of your CPU becomes uncontrollable simply due to the inhospitable climate that is not good for electronics that you have in India.

I would suggest that you run low TDP parts, generally speaking, in hot tropical climates. I suggest you get a large, ideally 280mm (go 240mm if that's all that'll fit in your case) AIO/ALC liquid cooler. I suggest the Corsair H105 if you must go 240mm since it has a thick radiator and can dissipate more heat. Make sure you have a lot of air flow in your case. Poplulate all the fan mounts and run the fans on max (12v) on everything in your case all the time.

I know people's homes can reach indoor temperature of 40C in the summer in India. Not an environment for an FX CPU. Given your geographical location, I don't suggest that you overclock your CPU. It makes a big performance difference to overclock FX's, but for you I suggest against it. Even if it doesn't overheat, it'll barbecue your office or bedroom or whatever room you have it in.

Next time take a look at a low voltage Intel chip would be my suggestion. Hope you work this out.

Thank you so much for your detailed response. Now that I have invested so much I want to find some solution to make it work. As suggested by you I am going to try out liquid cooling option and try out. I will update you as soon as do this. Just wanted to know if this cooler can fit in my Cooler Master CM250?

Kind Regards
Bharat

vishalpkulkarni · May 18, 2015

Hello Bharat,

Did your liquid cooling worked ? I too have same configuration I build it just a week back

It also reaches 70C .. let me know if you find something ..

Thanks
Vishal

Crashmaster · May 18, 2015

You should try using the wall socket and not a UPS, the shut down is because the UPS cannot handle your power requirement.
You can also try changing the thermal grease between the CPU and cooler. Also check if the fan is working when the computer is on. If it's not working then it might be connected wrong.
Hope it helps.

Bharat Mane · May 22, 2015

Hi Vishal,
After using liquid, and disabling two cores it was working fine...howerver, i was not happy with that. So finally I changed my cabinet with corsair 650d. And since then it works nicely with all 8 cores enabled.

So what I conclude is my old cabinet was a major culprit. However we do need good air cooler or preferably liquid cooler.

Hope this helps you. In case if you would like to know more about this, drop me an email @ bharat.mane@gmail.com
Bharat Mane

matthew_vanantwerpen · Oct 24, 2017

I Do want to mention I had a similar problem. The way I fixed it was was removing any ore applied thermal paste from the cpu cooler and the cpu and replacing it with some other thermal paste. Temps went from 50 at idle to 20

4745454b · Oct 24, 2017

You realize this thread is over 2yrs old right? Should pass on answering when they are that old.

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