5600x temperatures

Cristian Pavel · January 22, 2021

Hi guys! My new pc has just arrived, powered by the Ryzen 5 5600x (stock cooler) and I am a bit concerned about the temperatures.. Playing CSGO with FPS capped at 300 I've managed to maintain 65-67, which is fine. Removing the cap.. core temp shows a maximum of 79 degrees. I think that's not the average since the temperature after a quick alt+tab appears as 72-73 which seems to be fine as well. Is it a must to buy an after market cooler ? I do just gaming, no editing. Also, the ryzen master app shows a different score, like 5 degrees less than core temp. Which one is more accurate ? Since AMD made them both, I believe core temp is not what I'm looking for.

Smartiefox · January 22, 2021

Hello there!
I have a 5800, but can verify the common opinion of zen 3 ryzen running very hot.

Stock cooling might be a little weak for these cpu in general...

It seems like they only output the maximal temperature measured at one of the 20+ temperature sensors.
CSGO uses as far as I know not all cores, quite few if I am right.
So possibly only few cores with a lot of load could reach that temperature.

I am not an CPU architecture expert, so take that as an educated guess based on experiences

Did you check if the some cores tend to clock higher while gaming? Maybe it shows some cores under heavy load.

In general, everything under 80°C should be quite ok.

fyi I use "HWMonitor" for monitoring at the moment ^^

SupaKomputa · January 22, 2021

80c is just about what its designed (you can see it in AMD website).

CPU can work fine up to 100c.

I say you keep the cooler for now.

If you wanna buy one i recommend Hyper 212, cheap and good performer.

Downkey · January 22, 2021

25 minutes ago, Cristian Pavel said:

Hi guys! My new pc has just arrived, powered by the Ryzen 5 5600x (stock cooler) and I am a bit concerned about the temperatures.. Playing CSGO with FPS capped at 300 I've managed to maintain 65-67, which is fine. Removing the cap.. core temp shows a maximum of 79 degrees. I think that's not the average since the temperature after a quick alt+tab appears as 72-73 which seems to be fine as well. Is it a must to buy an after market cooler ? I do just gaming, no editing. Also, the ryzen master app shows a different score, like 5 degrees less than core temp. Which one is more accurate ? Since AMD made them both, I believe core temp is not what I'm looking for.

ryzen master is known for being slightly inaccurate.

Anyway, anything below 80 is great.

Cristian Pavel · January 23, 2021

Thanks all for replies. I am gonna keep the cooler for now, it seems fine running 70-73 degrees while gaming. I am coming from an intel i5 7400 which averages 50 degrees so I was a bit worried :). Have a nice day