Ryzen temps too high

[Guest]

Just got the Ryzen 7 3800x and my idle temps are hovering between 40 and 50 degrees and randomly spikes when I open an application according to HWMonitor and AMD Ryzen master. Not sure what's going on

[Mira Yurizaki]

Make sure the cooler is seated properly. You can do a quick and dirty test by pressing down on the cooler against the processor firmly and seeing if the temperature drops. If it does, the cooler isn't seated properly.

 

The spikes are normal. Periodically a core gets loaded to do background stuff

[Skiiwee29]

Thats normal. My 3700x under full custom loop at stock idles the same.

[Polyvalent]

Got an OC? between 40 and 50 isnt a terrible idle temp depending on the cooler.

[Guest]

Just now, Polyvalent said:

Got an OC? between 40 and 50 isnt a terrible idle temp depending on the cooler.

Have not overclocked yet. I'm using the noctua NH-U14s

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Thats normal. My 3700x under full custom loop at stock idles the same.

Idling at 40 is normal? I'm kind of scared to perform a stress test

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Make sure the cooler is seated properly. You can do a quick and dirty test by pressing down on the cooler against the processor firmly and seeing if the temperature drops. If it does, the cooler isn't seated properly.

 

The spikes are normal. Periodically a core gets loaded to do background stuff

I can understand the spikes being normal, but the idle temp worries me.

[Polyvalent]

11 minutes ago, prostrike33 said:

Have not overclocked yet. I'm using the noctua NH-U14s

 

10 minutes ago, prostrike33 said:

Idling at 40 is normal? I'm kind of scared to perform a stress test

 

For the new ryzens, yes, it's normal.  I've seen idle temps on the 3000's up to 50C.  I doubt you'll go over 75C in stress testing.

You can try using Ryzen's power plan in Windows power settings or undervolting a smidge if you want lower thermals.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Polyvalent said:

 

For the new ryzens, yes, it's normal.  I've seen idle temps on the 3000's up to 50C.  I doubt you'll go over 75C in stress testing.

You can try using Ryzen's power plan in Windows power settings or undervolting a smidge if you want lower thermals.

Huh didn't realize. My old CPU idled at around 30, but it was a 4 core CPU

[Skiiwee29]

34 minutes ago, prostrike33 said:

Idling at 40 is normal? I'm kind of scared to perform a stress test

 

yes, with Ryzen 3000 this is normal. Reason is that voltages are set to between 1.4-1.5 at idle so there is headroom for boosting and then they go down significantly at load, usualy into the 1.1v range.

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

yes, with Ryzen 3000 this is normal. Reason is that voltages are set to between 1.4-1.5 at idle so there is headroom for boosting and then they go down significantly at load, usualy into the 1.1v range.

Is this with Precision boost active?

[Skiiwee29]

Active or set to Auto in the BIOS. I didnt try with it disabled personally.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Polyvalent said:

 

For the new ryzens, yes, it's normal.  I've seen idle temps on the 3000's up to 50C.  I doubt you'll go over 75C in stress testing.

You can try using Ryzen's power plan in Windows power settings or undervolting a smidge if you want lower thermals.

Cinebench reached a max temp of 80C

RealBench 15 minute stress test hit 86C

[Polyvalent]

1 hour ago, prostrike33 said:

Cinebench reached a max temp of 80C

RealBench 15 minute stress test hit 86C

Not dangerous but thats fairly high.  You might want to try reseating the cooler with some new thermal paste.