a10-6700 running hot.

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PygmyArr

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i've got the APU above a10-6700, but it's running hot, AMD overdrive is reporting 10'c thermal margins on desktop on stock speeds. i've just re-done the thermal paste, and my cooler is a corsair H50 in a antec 300 case, fans are pull on radiator at the back, and push on the roof fan right above that.

my motherboard is a f2a55-m, with a r9 280dual-x gfx card and 16gb xms3 ram, 2 hdd 1ssd.

is there something i am missing as to why it is running so hot?
 
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maxwellmelon

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is the pump pluged in? is the pump pumping water? is the radiator getting warm/hot? did you use the amd hardware and not intel hardware(can be easy to get it mixed up) have you pulled the heat sink off and check that the cpu is making good contact with the heat sink (thermal paste should be spread thinly(almost see though) over the contact area of heat sink/cpu which shows good close contact between the two.

usually it is hot because the cooler is not working or hooked up correctly.
 
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PygmyArr

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yes the pump is plugged in and pumping water (can hear it whirr n whoosh in pipes on boot) the radiator and pipes are pretty cool, almost room temperature. i know it is the AMD mounting, as i took them off my old am2 board and cpu when i upgraded a few months back.
when i re-did the thermal paste, it looked evenly spread all over cpu, if anything too much was put on as it had spilled out over sides a little when doing up the screws for pump/block... the air coming out of the case feels warm, but not really that hot...

FYWIW after playing battlefield 1, amd says 5'c thermal margin, hardware monitor says 125'c current cpu temp, but reboot to bios and it shows 50'c temp... is my cooling fine and my windows temp sensors broke? 50'c is 122'f... which is damn near the 125'c hwmonitor is saying...
 
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maxwellmelon

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hardware monitor could be it just reading F instead of C and not displaying the correct lettering.

but the thermal margin of 5 c is really close to thermal throttling. when it gets to 0c the cpu will start throttling. on your desktop you should have a thermal margin of 30C or greater. normally 40c or greater is better for idle system. under max load 10c should be what you would want 5c is really close to max temp. remember 0c or a negative number is overheating with thermal margin. (0c=max temp)

what doesn't worry me so much is the 5c under load but u said that your only at 10c thermal margin on the desktop. which is where it should be 30+c away from max temp.
 
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