- Apr 13, 2015
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Hi all,
I'm running an AMD FX8350 with an ASRock 970 Extreme R2 (not a good board, I realise that).
I recently moved over to an Aerocool DS200 case with a top mounted Corsair H100i exhausting upwards. This cooler is in a push/pull configuration with 2 sets of corsair fans designed for radiators. There are 2 coolermaster fans on the front pulling air in and one on the rear exhausting.
In the case is an R9 280x (and in a few days another one in crossfire). There is also an Asus Xonar STX soundcard.
I have also added some small heatsinks to the EXTREMELY hot and remarkably poor VRM's on the motherboard.
My problems are thus:
-Idle is quite warm with the CPU idling at 41 degrees.
-Load temps are into the 50's when gaming.
-Using AMD overdrives stability test I reach 60+ degrees.
-The test fails citing a hardware failure, and the cpu has been throttling itself to 1.3ghz until I disabled this on the BIOS.
I am confident the water block is seated correctly and the thermal paste is good quality and a thin layer.
The twist to this story is the conflicting temperature readings I get:
-AMD Overdrive reports the thermal margin from idle to be 48.6 degrees.
-HW Monitor reports the CPUTIN (motherboards reported temperature for the CPU as 41c at idle.
-HW Monitor also shows the FX-8350 Package temperature as 21c at idle and these load temps are much happier.
What is going on then? It's hard to tell what to do when I don't even know what temperature to believe. Any help would be bloody great. Thanks!
- I am not overcl
I'm running an AMD FX8350 with an ASRock 970 Extreme R2 (not a good board, I realise that).
I recently moved over to an Aerocool DS200 case with a top mounted Corsair H100i exhausting upwards. This cooler is in a push/pull configuration with 2 sets of corsair fans designed for radiators. There are 2 coolermaster fans on the front pulling air in and one on the rear exhausting.
In the case is an R9 280x (and in a few days another one in crossfire). There is also an Asus Xonar STX soundcard.
I have also added some small heatsinks to the EXTREMELY hot and remarkably poor VRM's on the motherboard.
My problems are thus:
-Idle is quite warm with the CPU idling at 41 degrees.
-Load temps are into the 50's when gaming.
-Using AMD overdrives stability test I reach 60+ degrees.
-The test fails citing a hardware failure, and the cpu has been throttling itself to 1.3ghz until I disabled this on the BIOS.
I am confident the water block is seated correctly and the thermal paste is good quality and a thin layer.
The twist to this story is the conflicting temperature readings I get:
-AMD Overdrive reports the thermal margin from idle to be 48.6 degrees.
-HW Monitor reports the CPUTIN (motherboards reported temperature for the CPU as 41c at idle.
-HW Monitor also shows the FX-8350 Package temperature as 21c at idle and these load temps are much happier.
What is going on then? It's hard to tell what to do when I don't even know what temperature to believe. Any help would be bloody great. Thanks!
- I am not overcl
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