CPU Temps Looping

[RetroAech]

Hello!

 

TL:DR - Reapplied Thermal Paste and now my CPU temps are looping/repeating 10 degrees at a time, nonstop at idle. according to third party software. 58c, 57c, 56c, 55c, 54c, 53c, 52c, 51c, 50c, 49c, 48c, 58c, 57c, 56c ... etc My BIOS shows a steady temp.

 

I just built my very first PC about a week ago, such a fun process!

 

My only and main hiccup was applying the wraith cooler onto the mounted CPU.

 

From a lack of experience and thorough directions I sloppily applied the fan and moved on.

 

After it has been built I downloaded some hardware monitoring stuff (HWmonitor, CoreTemp)

 

Everything read find, my CPU temps were often 60+ at idle and I knew I messed up.

 

With the thermal paste pre-applied I didn't have any of my own. When I looked I could see the paste drooling from two sides under the cooler/fan.

 

So I ordered some thermal paste and when it got here, I carefully reapplied paste (It was very patchy and very thinly layered)

 

*side note, does anyone like the AMD wraith fans?? The RGB is great, sure but I feel like they squeeze way too hard down onto the CPU, no matter how strategically I place thermal paste it always forces it to the edges when I clamp it down.*

 

So booting up is perfectly fine, everything shows and acts just as before. But my third party software shows my temps as repeatedly fluctuating. But my BIOS still shows a single temp with minor changes over a few minutes.

 

Ive reinstalled the third party software, googled until my eyes bled, and took apart and put back together my PC more than you know just to figure this out.

 

Any ideas of what this is? Is there something simple I'm missing out on? Any and all help will be extremely appreciated!

 

 

**CPU** | [AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor]

**Motherboard** | [ASRock X570 Pro4 ATX Motherboard]

**Memory** | [Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory]

**Storage** | [Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive](

**Storage** | [Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive]

**Video Card** | [NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card]

[Spaceman_Wil]

The wraith cooler should do fine for you. AMD CPU's generally run hot, meaning the Wraith coolers have to be at least pretty good. A couple things you probably already know, but I'll mention just to be safe:

 

Don't put a ton of thermal paste on your CPU. The ghost of the Verge will come and steal your soul.

 

Make sure your cpu cooler is on there tight. It needs to have a solid connection to the CPU to transfer as much heat as possible.

 

How is airflow in your case? Are your fans pulling in from the front and pushing out the back?

[RetroAech]

Just now, Spaceman_Wil said:

How is airflow in your case? Are your fans pulling in from the front and pushing out the back?

Yes it is! Thanks for the reply. I made sure to apply small amounts at a time then add more as it seemed needed!

[Spaceman_Wil]

Here's something I found (You may have seen it already)

 

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Hello there!

 

I migrated to AMD recently (3700x + Gigabyte x570 I Aorus pro wifi + DDR4 3600mhz CL16) and I was really disappointed with temperatures and noise, even more that the cooler (Stock) on iddle is ramping up and down making the noise more noticeable.

 

After some research I found that this seems to be some kind of high-sensibility to low CPU processes and figured out how to configure advanced windows power options. The results where amazing. from 47-55c I'm getting 42c on iddle.

 

What I did was basically install AMD chipset drivers (https://www.amd.com/en/products/chipsets-am4 ), which will install the power profiles for Ryzen, then switched to Ryzen Performance profile and tuned it to stabilize the boosting.

 

The below command will execute the changes I made to my profile (be sure that Ryzen Performance is selected before execute them). To execute, run a CMD as administrator:

powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFINCTHRESHOLD 95
powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFINCTHRESHOLD1 95
powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFINCPOL 1
powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFINCPOL1 1
powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE 1
powercfg.exe -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFAUTONOMOUS 0

For even better temperatures (will not impact the performance) you can set VCORE with a -0.0500 delta on your bios.

 

I you test it, let me know the results!

 

 

[Whiro]

2 hours ago, RetroAech said:

Reapplied Thermal Paste and now my CPU temps are looping/repeating 10 degrees at a time, nonstop at idle. according to third party software. 58c, 57c, 56c, 55c, 54c, 53c, 52c, 51c, 50c, 49c, 48c, 58c, 57c, 56c ... etc My BIOS shows a steady temp.

This sounds very familiar to my previous system. 
Check your background processes, I had something similar when some windows security shit was activating twice per minute hitting my cpu, temps was increasing and dropping like that as well.