AMD FX8350 running at 75C without overclock!?!

Bobshaw

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Erm well this doesn't seem right to me...
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I'm playing the game Cities:Skylines on highest settings and apparently I'm getting temperatures as high as 75C while I play. I have been playing with the same set-up (computer in same place, same sort of intensive games) for a just under a year without changing a thing so i must have played at this for a long long time and i haven't noticed anything go wrong. I've played sessions for full 24 hours. Idle temperatures seem pretty high as well.

I'm not sure what fan I have but here is a picture of the inside of my computer:
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I have to admit the way the fan is set up does look pretty stupid but i did by the computer pre built. It also blows the warm air out into a small space against a wall next to a radiator (which is never on).
What should I do????

Specs:
CPU: AMD FX8350 @4GHZ
GPU: GTX 770
Mobo: m5a97 evo r2.0
RAM: 16GB 1600mhz

I feel that my CPU is slowly burning to a crisp ;_; Surely there is a discrepancy.
 

AdviserKulikov

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It appears as if they mounted the cooler wrong, but I can't be sure without seeing the boxed parts. I can tell you that it doesn't make sense to have your fan taking in air against the solid side of a CPU cooler block.

Additionally, it IS an FX-8350, AMD decided to try and compete with Intel's and Nvidia's efficient new products by burning the souls of woodland critters.
 

Bobshaw

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I looked on their website and in the picture the cooler is in the other way :/. Might have to send it back. Hopefully it is still under warranty.

 

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I'd be very cautious about getting a computer from guys who can't think to put a fan in the right way, although I give them big props for positively beautiful cable management.
 

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Haha, yeah well they are a well known trusted company. Hopefully they might replace my CPU while they are at it. God knows what might have happened to it.

 

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Likely nothing, nowadays CPUs are tough little buggers that know when to quit pumping more juice into the chip. On board temperature monitoring keeps them from burning to a crisp, all you'll see is that your performance goes to hell when suddenly it decides it's done putting itself on the barbie.
 

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Well it has been running like that for under a year. I think that time may be soon :(