I'm currently running an amd 8350 at 4.3 Ghz with a hyper evo 212 cooler on it, but am plagued with damagingly high temperatures even in idle. I have changed the thermal compound twice now, and have swapped coolers to see if they were the problem. Unfortunately, the high temps persist. The idle temp sits around 52C right now, even with the 212 constantly spun up to 100% speed using my BIOS, and with 5 case fans desperately trying to cool it down. Under heavy load, 65% cpu usage, it usually peaks around 65C, and under extreme load, 100% across the board, I've opened my temp monitor to it being a heart stopping 94C. It should also be noted that the overheating cpu throttling appears to be defective on my unit, as there is no way it should allow itself to get that hot. I have double and triple checked temp readings from various programs to make sure it was actually getting that hot. I have also tried reducing the OC back to the stock 4 ghz with no luck of reducing the temps. Any suggestions and what the heck is going on with my otherwise pretty nice fireball of a cpu?
Idle and load temps on my amd 8350 are WAY to high
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Seems like you covered most bases. How does it perform (temp-wise) at stock clocks with the stock cooler? That would be a good starting point for comparison. It would eliminate issues like improper mounting of the 212 EVO. I realize this would entail replacing the stock retention bracket again.
Haven't tried the stock cooler with it, though I have tried remounting the 212 Evo to make sure its correct. Sadly that didn't seem to fix the problem. As far as resetting it to stock clocks, I have tried that with little success, usually only bringing down idle temp by 2-3C. I will see if I still have the stock cooler somewhere and will try mounting that, although my problem seems to result from more than bad mounting of the cooler.
Voltages, fan speeds, and idle temps here since I forgot to put them.
http://gyazo.com/fb2a5b91056a9ff655b929364179ddcb
-Just finished putting the stock cooler in, no luck, still 54C idle.
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Hum very odd, Got mine on a water cooling loop 37c at idle.
Maybe you should think about a water cooling solution.
It would tell me to Check what wattage of cpu your motherboard can handle.
To me it says the board can only supply 95w of power to the cpu, but the 8350 requires more wattage.
Things tend to heat heat up more on the cpu if the board cannot provide enough wattage to the cpu socket from the 12v eight pin of the board. An FX 8350 requires the board to provide at least 125w of power to the cpu socket.
Check the board you have and it`s max wattage provided via the cpu socket.
If it`s only 95w then it explains why the 8350 is hotter than should be.
Maybe you should think about a water cooling solution.
It would tell me to Check what wattage of cpu your motherboard can handle.
To me it says the board can only supply 95w of power to the cpu, but the 8350 requires more wattage.
Things tend to heat heat up more on the cpu if the board cannot provide enough wattage to the cpu socket from the 12v eight pin of the board. An FX 8350 requires the board to provide at least 125w of power to the cpu socket.
Check the board you have and it`s max wattage provided via the cpu socket.
If it`s only 95w then it explains why the 8350 is hotter than should be.
Motherboard is an msi 970-A which supposedly outputs enough power, so that shouldn't be the issue. As far as water cooling, I've been hesitant on buying a system, because at the extreme temps i'm getting on so much air cooling, I didn't even know if it would work properly on liquid. Most people with just the 212 and no case fans or anything are reporting like 50C under max load, which is what I'm currently getting on idle, so I thought I shouldn't even bother investing in liquid for it to still overheat.
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Just had a look the board does support a 125w FX 8350 cpu.
I would check to see what bios revision on the motherboard you have.
And update it to the latest version. Or at least check that the version of the bios you have on your board fully supports the cpu.
Based on its revision no.
http://www.msi.com/support/mb/970A-G46.html#support_download
I would check to see what bios revision on the motherboard you have.
And update it to the latest version. Or at least check that the version of the bios you have on your board fully supports the cpu.
Based on its revision no.
http://www.msi.com/support/mb/970A-G46.html#support_download
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Whats your ambient temps and case air flow look like. You have 5 fans but the airflow might be terrible due to fan orientation.
GPU temp and everything else is running cool. I've got all the fans oriented to pull air in the front and suck it out through the top and back, so I don't think that's it. I can tell that it's pulling heat out well, as after a few hours of heavy gaming the room my computer's in can turn into a sweat box.
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Turn off the top exhaust fans, your fighting the airflow that goes into the cpu cooler from the front intake, when i have my 140mm top exhaust fan on, my cpu temps go up by about 5c because it fights the airflow of my cooler and causes the air to be static.
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evo 212 is a giant ass pain to fit, i have that evo including a fx8350, i had to take the board out, remove the default mount and put that chrome bracket at the back to make contact with my cpu correctly
it being on its side in a tower makes it even worse. that cooler is one giant ass heavy brick of metal.
that cpu has 2 temps. internal core. and case temp. if those temps differ ALOT like shootingup to 70-80 its usualy a sign that your cooler isnt fitted right. ive been there... with that evo.. and a fx8350.. and the freakingout haert stopping parts also.
it should clock down at about 63c case temp. it overshooting that tells me its not cooling on much more then its cpu case
that evo 212 should do least a 40c in <10% ultilization and 60c > 90% on fx8350@4.4ghz (so slight oc) and thats on the default paste. with no case coolers and 2x r9290 oc mobile bqq 's infront of its intake.
im putting my money on the default mobo cooler mount not making contact with the cpu. use the provided backmount, you realy need it annyways with such a huge cooler.
that stock cooler is terrible.. that evo-212 should defo be better by a landslide
with stock cooler turbomode is a no-no will clockdown be4 it reaches it.
ill compleetly give that installing evo cooler is a frelling nightmare. bolts poorly fit, whole thing is flimpsy.. board has to come out etc. but it does cool nicely.
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