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So I have a 6800k that Im water cooling with the Cooler Master Seidon 120XL. Having my pump and fans turned up to the max and it runs as hot as 75C when gaming. I swear this is running hotter than it needs to. I'm not using the integrated graphics ether. Can anyone offer me insight of how I can cut that heat?

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So I have a 6800k that Im water cooling with the Cooler Master Seidon 120XL. Having my pump and fans turned up to the max and it runs as hot as 75C when gaming. I swear this is running hotter than it needs to. I'm not using the integrated graphics ether. Can anyone offer me insight of how I can cut that heat?

Where are you getting the temps from? A lot of times with AMD cpus the temperature readings are incorrect.

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Try re-seating the waterblock, helps 70% of the time.

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Where are you getting the temps from? A lot of times with AMD cpus the temperature readings are incorrect.

CPUID HWMonitor

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CPUID HWMonitor

I have a A10-5800k and in HWMonitor my cpu temp is actually the first temperature under the motherboard section (It matches the cpu temperature in my BIOS program in Windows). I have no idea what the temperature it assigns my cpu actually is.

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I have a A10-5800k and in HWMonitor my cpu temp is actually the first temperature under the motherboard section (It matches the cpu temperature in my BIOS program in Windows). I have no idea what the temperature it assigns my cpu actually is.

Yeah, in speccy it says I'm 110 degrees Celsius but my BIOS says 30.. 

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A8-6600K, FX8350 stock sink, stock boost on CPU, 1GHz on GPU; OpenHardwareMonitor reading never gets to 50* on CPU. GPU reading shows 12.9* at load(which I'm sure is wrong). Sounds like too much paste or heatsink not making contact correctly.

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A8-6600K, FX8350 stock sink, stock boost on CPU, 1GHz on GPU; OpenHardwareMonitor reading never gets to 50* on CPU. GPU reading shows 12.9* at load(which I'm sure is wrong). Sounds like too much paste or heatsink not making contact correctly.

I had a friend that wanted to do the thermal paste on my 6800k, and I let him. I said "stop with the thermal paste!". He replied " O you need more thermal paste on these APUs". Could this be his doing?

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I had a friend that wanted to do the thermal paste on my 6800k, and I let him. I said "stop with the thermal paste!". He replied " O you need more thermal paste on these APUs". Could this be his doing?

Everyone, I'm sure has done it at one point or another. No big deal. Wipe it off, and go again. A dot the size of a pea works. Some spread. Don't let it confuse you. Dot is easiest.

 

Here's an idea of what's underneath. Whole lid doesn't need to be covered.

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Remember, "Less is More". lol

 

With the LGA 115x CPUs, I use the "Pea" method.

 

With the LGA 2011 CPUs, I use the "Line" method, just because the 2011 CPUs are larger.

 

Either way, "Less is More". When you tighten the block down, the Paste will spread, and as the CPU gets hotter, the Paste will actually spread even more.

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