getting 76C stock with Noctua NH-D15 amd athlon 860K

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Xapy22

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Hi everyone
I just installed the noctua NH-D15 and I was pumped to overclock.
but hwmonitor said that my cpu is 76 degrees under load with cinebench r15
why? I expected way lower...
my cpu always ran hot like 85 or 95 degrees
and doing cinebench with the stock cooler ment 100+.
I did see that the thermal paste on the cpu was all spread to the side and barely have anything in middle so maybe that's why
is my cpu just hot or did I failed by spreading the thermal paste?
I did fail mounting it which I had to take it out just a little before putting pressure and while on top i did pushed it a little to the side to match the mounting point.
could there be like airbubbles? what could it be please help.
my thermal compound is noctua nt-h1
 
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bgunner
That is excellent for a temp. Like I mentioned before when the temps goes down to 0°C the CPU is over heating, no thermal margin left. AMD does not use temp sensors any more like they did with the phenom/athlon and phenom II/athlon II series. They now use a mathematical algorithm to guess what the temps is using the core frequency, voltage and wattage. This is where the thermal margin comes in. It is much closer to the truth on when the CPU will overheat versus HWmonitor, Open Hardware monitor, Core temp, Speedfan or the like because those are all based off of this algorithm.
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bgunner

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Use AMD Overdrive and watch the thermal margin. Thermal margin tells you hoe many more degree's you have before your CPU over heats not what the temp is. This is by far the best way to tell if there is an issue.

Report back what the reading is for thermal margin and we will be able to help you better.


P.S. please list your full system specs= cpu, motherboard, ram, HDD/SSD, PSU, GPU if discrete, case and optical drive if applies.
 
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Xapy22

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The thermal margin in 62-70 on idle
On load with cinebench r15
It's 42-43
 
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OK then your not over heating. When that temp gets to 0°C then the CPU will start to throttle the speed due to heat. Run a program like Intel Burn test set to maximum stress for 10 runs and this will tell you if the CPU will over heat during any thing you can throw at it.
 
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Xapy22

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My pc spec is
-Fractal design define R4
-Corsair vengeance ddr3 1886MHz 8GB low profile
-Amd athlon x4 860K
- gigabyte radeon r7 360
-samsung 750 evo 250GB ssd
-Asrock fm2 a88xPro3+
Xfx core pro 550 watt
Btw now it's 42 degrees thermal margin

 
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bgunner

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That is excellent for a temp. Like I mentioned before when the temps goes down to 0°C the CPU is over heating, no thermal margin left. AMD does not use temp sensors any more like they did with the phenom/athlon and phenom II/athlon II series. They now use a mathematical algorithm to guess what the temps is using the core frequency, voltage and wattage. This is where the thermal margin comes in. It is much closer to the truth on when the CPU will overheat versus HWmonitor, Open Hardware monitor, Core temp, Speedfan or the like because those are all based off of this algorithm.
 
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