I have an AMD 4300 FX Overclocked CPU that is paired with a Gigabyte 78 motherboard. It was liquid cooled in my Alienware PC. I bought a new case to build another PC for my father. I got it set up with my SSD to test it and did not put any heat sink or liquid cooler on it for a few minutes to make sure it ran POST then I would ad the cooling system and reboot. Everything ran fine and I got excited........until the CPU after about 15 second shot to 95 C and was too hot to touch. The PC shut down to save itself. This process repeats every time you fire it up. Is it normal for a CPU to get that hot that fast? The PC will not be for gaming so the CPU load will be lighter and not overclocked.
CPU Overheating.......95 Celsius
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DonkeyOatie
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It is dangerous and damaging to run a CPU without any form of cooling. It is designed to run with a heatsink of some sort. Did I misunderstand you?
13thmonkey
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Yes it is perfectly normal for it to get that hot that fast, you are putting 95W through a very small and light CPU.
Never never never run a CPU without a HSF, doesn't matter what it will be used for, unless they are designed to be run like that (none are at the moment) then simply don't do it.
Never never never run a CPU without a HSF, doesn't matter what it will be used for, unless they are designed to be run like that (none are at the moment) then simply don't do it.
Yes I understand that it is dangerous to run it without a heat sink or cooling device. I have an awesome cooling system, but wanted to make sure that it shooting immediately to 95 c was normal for an overclocked cpu. I have not ran it again without the cooling system on it. If it damaged it already I will use it as an opportunity to upgrade, but it working would also be great. Sounds like that heat spike is normal.
Thank you for the quick feedback. I will add the cooling system and boot it up again. I have another 8 core AMD that I can use if this one is toast. It will be a lesson learned. I paid $60 for the cpu a couple years ago and got no so great performance out of it for gaming, but it would work for my dads pc just running office and web browsing. I just dropped an i7 6600K in my PC with a 6 GB graphics card.
DonkeyOatie
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Serious overheating is normal for any CPU run without a heatsink. Don't do it. AMD CPUs are a lot less heat tolerant than Intel ones.
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It doesn't matter if you have an awesome cooling system.
And yes it is dangerous, and yes you may have caused damage because in the time it took to detect that it was at 95C, and then do something about it, it could have easily hit 120C or more. Normally the thermal mass of the HSF would make the extra increase between detection and action negligible (<1C).
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