Is my Ryzen CPU overheating

maxlukamonnard · Apr 17, 2018

I have a ryzen 5 1600x and it is idling at around 45°C. Is that normal? I have also heard that the x series of cpus by AMD add a 20°C. Just wondering if that is true to make sure my CPU is not overheating. By the way my I have just reaplied thermal compound (Arctic silver 5).

WildCard999 · Apr 17, 2018

What is your load temp and what cooler are you using with it?

therealduckofdeath · Apr 17, 2018

A PC's idle temperature depends a lot on your case, everything in it from power supply to PCI-E cards and how it's all cooled. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much with a 45 degree idle temperature if your PC is built to be quiet. My CPU (Intel) is probably in the mid-high 50's in the summer half of the year under light/medium load. Yes, maybe a bit much, but it's quiet. \o/ The fans kicks in when I start gaming, but then I'm usually using headphones so that doesn't bother me.
You can probably lower your temperature a bit by tweaking your case cooling fans a bit using the motherboard vendor's utilities.
Heat isn't very likely to break your CPU, your case and CPU fans will spin up at one point and if that amount of cooling fails it will first throttle everything and if all other fails just hang until it's cool enough. Anyhoo, check that utility your motherboard manufacturer supplied to check what speed your fans are running. You can increase their speed a bit if you want a lower idle temperature. Lastly, obviously also check that you don't have too much of a cable mess inside your PC, to allow for good air flow.

maxlukamonnard · Apr 17, 2018

WildCard999 :

maxlukamonnard · Apr 17, 2018

Thanks alot but Im just wondering if it was true that. Ryzen cpus with an x like the Ryzen 1600x add an inqacurate 20°C to the temperature display?

jr9 · Apr 17, 2018

Newer versions of Ryzen Master do not have the 20C offset issue anymore.

45C idle is OK but idle temps really don't matter. If you where between 60-70C under load you are fine with the stock cooler.

maxlukamonnard · Apr 17, 2018

If I bought my CPU in 2017 end of October would you think the 20°c offset still is applied

jr9 · Apr 17, 2018

Not if you have the latest version of Ryzen Master.

p.toan1991 · Apr 17, 2018

Well, i'm using R7 1800x with the CR-201 heatsink, the idle temperature is around 36-39 with the environment temp is 28 to 30 so i think your temp is a bit higher than normal, you should check the cpu's surface and the heatsink and make sure they fit and no space between them.

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