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My CPU temps are a bit high, but not crazy bad. Still, I’m curious if there’s anything I can tweak to bring them down, even a little. I just got this system running this week, and everything’s been good aside from this.

Here’s a screenshot of the temps at what should be a light load (just some basic stuff open like Edge, GCC, iCUE, Steam, and maybe one or two background processes).

I’m guessing it might be related to the AMDEXPO overclock, the Zen 5 architecture, or just the hot weather where I live. So far, gaming performance has been fine (only tried Terraria, though, and that’s not exactly demanding). Any ideas?

 

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Idle/low load temps on AMD CPUs have always been a bit high since the 3000 series. Temps in the low to mid 50s are 100% normal. Load temps is where you want to test and see to gauge if your cooling is properly setup and working. Reason is because the voltage is usually in the 1.4-1.45 vcore. They do this so the chip is primed and ready to go for load instead of ramping up and then failing to meet demand. Once the load is applied, voltages usually go down to necessary levels while keeping performance and temps where they should be. 

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25 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Idle/low load temps on AMD CPUs have always been a bit high since the 3000 series. Temps in the low to mid 50s are 100% normal. Load temps is where you want to test and see to gauge if your cooling is properly setup and working. Reason is because the voltage is usually in the 1.4-1.45 vcore. They do this so the chip is primed and ready to go for load instead of ramping up and then failing to meet demand. Once the load is applied, voltages usually go down to necessary levels while keeping performance and temps where they should be. 

 

That's understandable. I just played around 5 minutes playing Control Ultimate at max settings in 1080p and this is the temps I got from it. The cpu was around 50% utilized.

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3 hours ago, Citrusflavour01 said:

Any ideas?

yeah... there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. at all.

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