New R5 2600 over heating

[Stin6667]

Good day,

 

I just got a new R5 2600. I put it in and I check the temps. 

It was 93C. I re-seated the heat sink and the temps came down about 10C. It is idling at 79C.

 

Everything else is at about 30C

 

I have no clue what to do.

Any help will be most appreciated.

 

J

[Skiiwee29]

Bad mounting pressure most likely. 

[Stin6667]

Do I tighten the heatsinc?

 

[Eigenvektor]

If reseating the cooler helped (a little), I would assume the cooler isn't mounted correctly. Other than that, is the fan running as it should? Is the thermal paste applied correctly?

[Stin6667]

it is the stock heatsink and it isnt spinning much

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, Stin6667 said:

Do I tighten the heatsinc?

 

what cooler are you using? Almost all modern coolers will have stops that will prevent you from overtightening the cooler. 

[Skiiwee29]

Just now, Stin6667 said:

it is the stock heatsink and it isnt spinning much

since its the stock cooler, do a star pattern and tighten those screws down until they wont turn anymore. 

[sharknado34]

What are you using to cool your r5 2600? I had issues with a gunked up aio in the past giving me the exact same issues...

[Stin6667]

The one that came with the cpu

[sharknado34]

Just now, sharknado34 said:

What are you using to cool your r5 2600? I had issues with a gunked up aio in the past giving me the exact same issues...

nevermind @skiwee29 beat me to it.

[Stin6667]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

since its the stock cooler, do a star pattern and tighten those screws down until they wont turn anymore. 

I did that. But I will do it again.

[sharknado34]

Just now, Stin6667 said:

I did that. But I will do it again.

Maybe try putting more thermal paste on it?

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, sharknado34 said:

Maybe try putting more thermal paste on it?

The stock cooler comes with thermal paste pre-applied, right? In that case, I would also check that you didn't put too much onto it Maybe remove and re-apply some fresh paste.

 

The cooler "not spinning much" isn't much to go on. Make sure you plugged the fan into the CPU header on the motherboard. Use something like HWMonitor to check RPMs of the CPU fan.

[BruceWayneofLosSanto]

I would clear cmos too, when I used the stock cooler I regularly saw temps below even 30c on idle.  Maybe you need to update your bios too?

[Dehaka]

even without thermal paste it shouldnt be idling at this temp. i'd rma since its brand new.

[Stin6667]

20 hours ago, BruceWayneofLosSanto said:

I would clear cmos too, when I used the stock cooler I regularly saw temps below even 30c on idle.  Maybe you need to update your bios too?

When I go to asrocks website, It says I shouldn't update it. 

[Stin6667]

20 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

The stock cooler comes with thermal paste pre-applied, right? In that case, I would also check that you didn't put too much onto it Maybe remove and re-apply some fresh paste.

 

The cooler "not spinning much" isn't much to go on. Make sure you plugged the fan into the CPU header on the motherboard. Use something like HWMonitor to check RPMs of the CPU fan.

I checked that it is plugged into the right header. (not spinning much) based on the intel builds I have worked on and 2 amd build, when the temp is high, the cpu fan is loud, and spins very fast to reduce the heat. but this one is spinning as is if it is on idle, relatively slow .

[Stin6667]

19 hours ago, manchild said:

even without thermal paste it shouldnt be idling at this temp. i'd rma since its brand new.

When I took of the cooler to refit the cooler, I check to see if the paste was fine. and all seemed good. I slowly tightened it in the crisscross pattern as I have with all my other builds( Thinking I made a mistake when mounting it the 1st time).

[Mark Kaine]

This isn't a BIOS problem imo. 

 

3 hours ago, Stin6667 said:

When I took of the cooler to refit the cooler, I check to see if the paste was fine. and all seemed good. I slowly tightened it in the crisscross pattern as I have with all my other builds( Thinking I made a mistake when mounting it the 1st time).

You definitely need to re apply the paste (get MX4 or similar) after removing the heat sink,  especially if you had cooling problems already. 

 

Did you re apply the paste? It's not quite clear to me. 

 

Also yes,  usually the fans should be at absolute max at those temps so maybe something is up with that too. 

[Dehaka]

yep if thermal paste makes contact with fan and u remove fan, u need to clean then reapply because there will be tons of air bubbles and the thermal paste structure is damaged. but i think even if fan isnt tightly mounted, it still shouldnt be 77C on idle. thats probably the temp for naked idle cpu. i suggest u just rma quickly.

[Mathieu9836]

Re-apply thermal paste, you should be around 30-45C idle in the BIOS without adjustment to the fan curve.