So I have an AMD A8 6600K APU. It never used to overheat or get too hot, it used to be pretty fast too. I overclocked it about a year ago from 3.9 GHz to 4.6 GHz (I did the automatic overclock).
When I did that, it would just keep shutting itsself down (Obviously to protect from overheating and damaging).
So I put the clocks back to original speed and the temperature went down to normal (around 40 Idle and about 60 under load).
I hadn't monitored my CPU's Temperature for a long time (Maybe a year or so). About a week ago, I downloaded and installed CoreTemp to see what my temperatures where.
At Idle, it will stay around 65-70 with the occasional jump to 80 and back.
Under any sort of load, even about 20% load, it will go up to 90-100 Degrees.
I would assume it would shut down at that temp, but it doesn't. Even in the BIOS it will start at 40 and go up 1 by 1 untill about 80.
Here is what I have tried:
- Underclock CPU - Didn't work
- Clean case fans for air flow - Didn't work
- Clean Heatsink fan - Didnt work
- Re-apply Thermal Paste - Didn't work.
- RE-apply Thermal Paste after removing old one with alcohol cleaner - Didn't work.
Take every single component out of the case, clean every part of it, whilst re-applying thermal paste once again - Didn't work.
I don't have the money to buy a new cooler, but as far as I am aware, although AMD APUs run hot, the stock cooler should be sufficient enough to keep the CPU at a regular temperature.
Is there a sensor that is broke and reading the temp wrong?
HELP PLEASE!
When I did that, it would just keep shutting itsself down (Obviously to protect from overheating and damaging).
So I put the clocks back to original speed and the temperature went down to normal (around 40 Idle and about 60 under load).
I hadn't monitored my CPU's Temperature for a long time (Maybe a year or so). About a week ago, I downloaded and installed CoreTemp to see what my temperatures where.
At Idle, it will stay around 65-70 with the occasional jump to 80 and back.
Under any sort of load, even about 20% load, it will go up to 90-100 Degrees.
I would assume it would shut down at that temp, but it doesn't. Even in the BIOS it will start at 40 and go up 1 by 1 untill about 80.
Here is what I have tried:
- Underclock CPU - Didn't work
- Clean case fans for air flow - Didn't work
- Clean Heatsink fan - Didnt work
- Re-apply Thermal Paste - Didn't work.
- RE-apply Thermal Paste after removing old one with alcohol cleaner - Didn't work.
Take every single component out of the case, clean every part of it, whilst re-applying thermal paste once again - Didn't work.
I don't have the money to buy a new cooler, but as far as I am aware, although AMD APUs run hot, the stock cooler should be sufficient enough to keep the CPU at a regular temperature.
Is there a sensor that is broke and reading the temp wrong?
HELP PLEASE!
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