- Mar 12, 2014
- 80
- 0
- 18,660
All right, this is a bit of a strange one. When I got back from work today and booted up my PC it went into an American Megatrends splashscreen saying "CPU fan error - press F1 to continue" or something to that effect. Restarted, same thing. When I pressed F1 it threw me into the normal ASUS bios. I looked around that for a minute and everything seemed as I left it, so I exited again and Windows promptly loaded up. Idle temps fine, cooler plugged into CPU fan, CPU fan running, all good?
Except when I loaded up Dark Souls 3 I discovered my temperatures are going absolutely crazy. My socket temp hit 65 in about 2 minutes, its the first time I've ever seen it go over 60, highest up until now was about 58 and that was with an unoptimized launch version of Fallout 4 in a demanding area. (I know this combo of CPU and Mobo have issues with heat pooling around certain spots and driving up the socket temp quite a bit, but again, I've never seen it this high, and I don't know how close 65c is cutting it to the limit. I turned the game off after 3 minutes because of that. I'm confident that if I would have let it roll it would have continued rising.) Also, my thermal reserve (monitored through AMD Overdrive) went as low as 8c, also the worst I've ever seen it go by quite a big margin. The weird thing is that I spent the entire day yesterday playing DS3 and the temps were fine, nowhere near as bad, even in the swamp area which is apparently building a reputation for being very heavy to run at max.
Again, my idle temps are fine and the CPU cooler (a one of the old Coolermaster V8s) seems to be running just as before as far as I can see, which is why this really confuses me. Are there any tests one of you guys would recommend running? Maybe somewhere I can monitor the RPM of the CPU fan for example? I'm just about fed up of these socket temp issues (50+ is still enough to make me nervous) but don't have the budget to switch to an Intel setup right now.
Except when I loaded up Dark Souls 3 I discovered my temperatures are going absolutely crazy. My socket temp hit 65 in about 2 minutes, its the first time I've ever seen it go over 60, highest up until now was about 58 and that was with an unoptimized launch version of Fallout 4 in a demanding area. (I know this combo of CPU and Mobo have issues with heat pooling around certain spots and driving up the socket temp quite a bit, but again, I've never seen it this high, and I don't know how close 65c is cutting it to the limit. I turned the game off after 3 minutes because of that. I'm confident that if I would have let it roll it would have continued rising.) Also, my thermal reserve (monitored through AMD Overdrive) went as low as 8c, also the worst I've ever seen it go by quite a big margin. The weird thing is that I spent the entire day yesterday playing DS3 and the temps were fine, nowhere near as bad, even in the swamp area which is apparently building a reputation for being very heavy to run at max.
Again, my idle temps are fine and the CPU cooler (a one of the old Coolermaster V8s) seems to be running just as before as far as I can see, which is why this really confuses me. Are there any tests one of you guys would recommend running? Maybe somewhere I can monitor the RPM of the CPU fan for example? I'm just about fed up of these socket temp issues (50+ is still enough to make me nervous) but don't have the budget to switch to an Intel setup right now.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram