3600 high idle temps

[Tac0monster]

Hello, this is my first time posting on the forums. I have been watching linus for past few years and have been building computers since the days of the first AMD 1ghz processor. I recently had to purchase a 3600 from best buy because I dropped my 1700x while trying to transfer it to a new case and motherboard. I have noticed some unusual high idle temps on my new 3600 45c 55c and its never lowering the clock speed. I have updated to the latest bios. With little success. The only way I found to force the voltage to 1.000v but, I feel like I'm limiting the cpu. Any help would be great. I'm using a deepcool air cooler.

[boggy77]

idle temps aren't very relevant. what temps do you get under load?

[aDoomGuy]

Hello, whenever there is load on our processors it will boost like a madman. I presume when you say you have high idle temps that they will spike up, go back down and spike up again. Mine does that too and it seems to be normal behavior. 

 

One thing that will help a little, head to AMD site and download the latest chipset drivers and use the Ryzen Balanced power plan.

Couple of things that will help more. You can use Windows built in power saving power plan, this will limit the CPU to 2GHz but the PC won't be slow at light tasks. I did this before I got my Be Quiet cooler.

You can edit the power plan you use and set minimum CPU to 20% or something and see if that helps.

 

If you have Asus board and AI Suite installed you can switch there between power saving and performance mode. Also there is an app on the Windows Store called Power Plan Switcher which adds a tray icon to switch between power plans.

[merco]

3 minutes ago, Tac0monster said:

because I dropped my 1700x

it seems you have watched linus a little too much

 

4 minutes ago, Tac0monster said:

unusual high idle temps on my new 3600 45c 55c and its never lowering the clock speed

I believe this is normal have you looked at it in ryzen master? it shows a lot different clock speed than hwinfo64 for example

[Statik]

What’s your load speed? My 3800x can idle in the 30s, but as soon as I do ANYTHING it’ll spike into 50-60s as it boosts. But the important thing under full load it never breaks 80C

[thedonheath]

try overclocing it then lowing the volts so find your max OC and lower the volts bit by bit had to do it with 3700x now its oc to 4.3 sits idal at 34c and gets to 71c on aida64