CPU temps are lower than normal

[Ian Goppert]

Ok, so my cpu has been running at around 60 degrees Celsius idol. I just powered on my pc this morning and it at 23 degrees idol. I check the clock and that is still the same. I am running an AMD FX 6300 overclocked to 4.3ghz. Are the temps changing this drastically overnight a problem?

[Fasauceome]

60 idle is really hot, 23 sounds correct. What cooler are you using? And what software to check temps?

[Ian Goppert]

Ok I think I figured it out, tell me if I may be correct. I checked my clock again and it was at 3.5 ghz which is not overclocked, so I think my bios might have changed it do to power limitations of my system? Is that possible? I have 2 dvd drives 3 HDD’s 4 sticks of ram a 1050 to plus an amd Fox 6300. My psu is 500w

 

i also just added in some of that stuff, forgot to mention it though

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Ian Goppert said:

so I think my bios might have changed it do to power limitations of my system?

BIOS settings can be reverted sometimes, I'm not sure what motherboard you have but It's a known behavior. Can you simply reenable the OC settings?

[eira]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

BIOS settings can be reverted sometimes, I'm not sure what motherboard you have but It's a known behavior. Can you simply reenable the OC settings?

I'm thinking the same too, BIOS settings probably got reset.

Also I'd recommend turning down the OC a bit (maybe to 4GHz) since 60C idle is pretty toasty. I'm not surprised temperatures have drastically improved with the OC off.

[Ian Goppert]

Yes I can, I think I’m going to keep it at 3.5 though, unless I’m wrong about that temp increase not being justified

[Ian Goppert]

Ok didn’t see that last reply, I’m still going to keep it at 3.5 for the time being. Thanks for your help though.

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Ian Goppert said:

Yes I can, I think I’m going to keep it at 3.5 though, unless I’m wrong about that temp increase not being justified

if it was 60 idle, I wonder what the load temps were.

[eira]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

if it was 60 idle, I wonder what the load temps were.

FX CPUs are known to be quite hot under load at stock. I bet that OC turns the CPU into a grill under load 

[Ian Goppert]

Will rendering video in Blender the load on the cpu was around 25% which got it to 70 degrees