New to amd please help!

[Chronicle Drew]

Okay so its my first time on this new Pc and I need help optimizing the experience. By that I mean it runs pretty hot at idle and under load it is the stock cooler that came with my 3600x but I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal grease instead of the stock paste. 35 to 45c idles with random cpu utilization spikes and under load 65 to 75c. iv'e heard of under volting and tweaking settings in the bios but Im lost when it comes to amd's layout. I came from an old I7 platform. Also seems the cpu doesnt really ever fully idle or drop to base frequency im not sure if this is normal or not. my 4770k OC would go from 4.4Ghz to even under base frequency at idle sometimes going as low as 3.00GHz. chipset and drivers are up to date!

 

FULL PC SPECS

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600x stock speeds

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO using xmp profile @3600Mhz

MOBO: Asus Tuf Gaming X570-PLUS latest bios.

GPU: Asus Dual GTX 1060 6GB

PSU: Corsair Gaming Series 800W 80+ bronze

SSD: Sandisk 256GB

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

HDD: 2 3TB Western Digital NasDrives

 

[Fasauceome]

That's fairly normal and you don't have anything to worry about.

[DG House]

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/ryzen-master

 

try amd OC tool

 

PS: looks pretty normal too me with the stock headsink

[TetraSky]

I'm not seeing any issues with thermals here. It's the stock cooler, don't expect grandiose thermal performances from that, but it is still way below the 95˚C maximum temp, so you're fine.

 

As for CPU not reducing the frequency itself... That's also normal, apparently. You could set the Power Plan in Windows to Ryzen Balanced, see if that does anything. It didn't for me. I don't mind it really. It might not even be worth it as the power usage isn't really reduced regardless of whether or not you downclock it.

All Control Panel Items\Power Options

 

[Retrodex Gaming]

Running AMD on almost all my machines they do run warm. Those figures look perfect to me!

 

I get the alarm though if you've run team blue for a while!

[ImNotNeko]

The temps are fine.

If you wanna see lower temp, there are many cheap but great cooler options like Hyper 212.

 

 

Btw, I'm just surprised at how you have 800W PSU for a set up that will use around 200W. XD

[dizmo]

Paste isn't going to give you significantly better temperatures when you still have a lackluster cooler.

[dizmo]

29 minutes ago, ImNotNeko said:

The temps are fine.

If you wanna see lower temp, there are many cheap but great cooler options like Hyper 212.

 

 

Btw, I'm just surprised at how you have 800W PSU for a set up that will use around 200W. XD

There are far better options than the Hyper 212...

[ImNotNeko]

49 minutes ago, dizmo said:

There are far better options than the Hyper 212...

Oh, like which one?
I don't own many coolers in $30 range so please give me other options, I want to try them. 

[dizmo]

4 hours ago, ImNotNeko said:

Oh, like which one?
I don't own many coolers in $30 range so please give me other options, I want to try them. 

I'd start with:

• Cooler Master ML120
• Arctic Freezer 33
• Raijintek Ereboss
• Deepcool GAMMAXX GT
• CryOrig H7

 

 

[ImNotNeko]

37 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd start with:

• Cooler Master ML120
• Arctic Freezer 33
• Raijintek Ereboss
• Deepcool GAMMAXX GT
• CryOrig H7

 

 

ML120 is garbage. I thought it was broken so I got replacement and it was still bad. Realized that it straight up suck.

 

Artic 33 seems pretty good, I'll order one !

 

Raijintek one looks awful but I guess I'll give it a shot

 

Right... Gammaxx GT. I remember that one. I totally forgot about that.

 

Cryorig H7 is expennnnnnsive lol

 

Thanks for the list. I'll try those.

[dizmo]

22 minutes ago, ImNotNeko said:

ML120 is garbage. I thought it was broken so I got replacement and it was still bad. Realized that it straight up suck.

 

Artic 33 seems pretty good, I'll order one !

 

Raijintek one looks awful but I guess I'll give it a shot

 

Right... Gammaxx GT. I remember that one. I totally forgot about that.

 

Cryorig H7 is expennnnnnsive lol

 

Thanks for the list. I'll try those.

And yet, it's significantly better than the 212 Evo

 

Looks mean nothing in regards to cooling.

 

My CryOrig H7 cost me $43. It's not expensive.