New FX 6300 Overheat

MyKeyblader · Sep 17, 2016

My new FX 6300 processor has been overheating several times, and I didn't realize until my PC shutoff while I was monitoring the temps. Motherboard was at 98 C and CPU was around 85ish C. I turned off core turbo boost, took of the stock thermal paste on the stock heatsink and put some month old Arctic Silver 5 on the stock cooler. In the BIOS I set the Q-fan settings to turbo for max fan speed. i also underclocked the processor from 3.5GHZ to 3.23GHZ. Now under heavy load(playing Garry's Mod) the CPU fan rpm is at over 4000rpm and the cpu temperature is around 61 C, climbing up to around after around half an hour 65 C. Are these temps okay? Because if they are, I wonder why AMD would provide a cooler that could not sufficiently cool this CPU. This makes me angry because I'm a teenager and I want to save as much money as I can for college and getting this CPU was all I could afford, buying an aftermarket cooler seems like an unnecessary step, especially since I'm not doing any overclocking.

weberdarren97 · Sep 17, 2016

That CPU throttles at just under 60C. Those temps are outrageous.

What is your case fan configuration? How many intake and exhaust and where are they?

MyKeyblader · Sep 17, 2016

weberdarren97 :

One rear case exhaust fan, the cpu fan and the psu fan. I dont have many fans but this setup was able to cool my previous Phenom II x4 9550 despite it being so much older.

Dark Lord of Tech · Sep 17, 2016

What board are you running?

lifespill · Sep 17, 2016

Your temps are wrong,fx chips have max 70c above that thermal shutdown occurs and at 98c you mobo would be deep fried.Use only amd overdrive and only for full load thermal margin.

weberdarren97 · Sep 17, 2016

That is not enough airflow.

MyKeyblader · Sep 17, 2016

An ASUS M5a 78L-M/USB3 mATX

Dark Lord of Tech · Sep 17, 2016

The Micro AM3+ boards don't cool very well , poor thermal designs.

maikutech · Sep 17, 2016

MyKeyblader :

Unfornanently that is a necessary step, the FX chips do run hot and without a good aftermarket cooler and thermall grease.
After 2 or 3 weeks it does get hot, if you really are tight on money the best you can do for now is this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186038&cm_re=thermal_grease-_-35-186-038-_-Product
You can put this on the stock cooler it'll hold out for 3 months top but the tempature will go up steadily over time.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186092&cm_re=heatsink-_-35-186-092-_-Product

Think about it those 2 items will work, it'll allow you to over clock 4.0ghz if not better depending on your case cooling.
Ask your parents you need the money and tell them it is necessary so you can keep the computer going and play games on you off time.

maxwellmelon · Sep 17, 2016

"Motherboard was at 98 C" your case is boiling water(water boils at 100c)? this isn't your cpu temp but your case temp.

what program are you checking your temps with?

I recommend amd overdrive and/or CPUID as the more reliable programs. other programs can be wrong.

a guide to amd fx temps.....http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html

weberdarren97 · Sep 17, 2016

Motherboard temp doesn't mean case temp. It's likely either the VRM temp or the Northbridge temp.

It's referring to a specific part of the motherboard, not the board as a whole. If the whole board was actually that hot, the PCIe slots would have failed a long time ago.

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