Evo 212 amd 6300 overheating - weird

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I built this PC last year and it ran fine till a month ago. I played skyrim, borderlands, and fallout 4 without a single problem. That was with the AMD 6300 and the stock cooler that came with it.

All of a sudden, about a month or two ago, it started alarming due to overheating. Temps in HWMon showed 70-75 C. I swapped out the stock cooler for a 212 evo after reading recommendations and that showed a few degrees difference. Removing the side cover of my case also seemed to help a few degrees.

Right now, playing Witcher part one is overheating this rig. Please help!

 
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that it's running bone stock settings on a gigabyte 970a-ud3p. Fans definitely working cause I hear em blazing away in there and HWMon shows them spinning
 
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also disable turbo etc, manually fix your speeds and manually set your cpu voltage. it will help since usually the voltage goes way higher than needed causing higher temps but temps will be wrong unless you put them under some sort of load.
 
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I have the BIOS alarms set and I'm just verifying with the HWMon. I installed AMD overdrive and it also verifies the temps.

The case is just a big generic thermaltake case with three 120mm fans providing airflow (one intake and two exhaust). Taking the side cover off reduces temps by 1-2C. Not sure if that is significant.

"also disable turbo etc, manually fix your speeds and manually set your cpu voltage. it will help since usually the voltage goes way higher than needed causing higher temps but temps will be wrong unless you put them under some sort of load."

I can do that, but I'm really wondering why it started overheating all of a sudden. And why can't I run stock settings with this fancy evo cooler?
 
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Before you start manually adjusting things, try a bios reset to factory defaults. It's possible, tho unlikely since you're running stock, that a setting got fouled up somewhere.

Have you tried cleaning, reapplying and reseating the cooler? If you're running everything at stock, a cooler like the Evo should be more than enough to do the job. Applying the paste incorrectly or not tightening the cooler enough could explain some weird temps. If you haven't already, I'd recommend reading through this article on apply thermal paste.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-heat-sink-heat-spreader,3600.html
 
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For future reference, here is the solution: you take the plastic strip off the Evo CPU mounting surface before you install it.

On a side note, the Hyper 212 Evo is slightly more efficient WITH the plastic on the CPU mounting surface when compared to the stock AMD-6300 cooler.

Who would have guessed?
 
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Well... yeah, that'll do it.
 
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