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Pc specs: 
CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X
Motherboad: Gigabyte B850M Gaming X WIFI6E
Cooler: Gigabyte Gaming 360 ICE

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16x2 gb ddr5 6000mhz cl30

PSU: Aorus Elite 850W Platinum ICE
Storage: Kingston nvme m.2 1tb


Just got my pc earlier today, built by a professional.
Everything worked just fine, I installed Windows 11, updated until I was up to date, updated drivers through Gigabyte Control Center. All the usual stuff, no problems.
Last thing I did was updating the motherboard´s BIOS through Gigabyte Control Center. I'm pretty sure it said I was on BIOS version F1 and it updated to version F4. No problems during the update process, after it ended it automatically restarted straight to windows. I didn't change anything.
First weird thing was that at login it says that my pin wasn't available, i had to use password. Most importantly tho, CPU starts to overheat right after boot, at idle.Fans instantly ramp up to full throttle but temps only go up. Restarted a couple of times and it keeps happening.
I want to stress that before updating the BIOS temps were amazing so I'm pretty sure there is no hardware issue.

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None of those temps are actually overheating.

 

Tthe danger zone for CPU cores is 95C.

 

67.4C for your cores is a bit high for AMD at idle, but not completely out of the normal.

 

What temps does it reach under load?

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12 minutes ago, Dr. Will0hlep said:

None of those temps are actually overheating.

 

Tthe danger zone for CPU cores is 95C.

 

67.4C for your cores is a bit high for AMD at idle, but not completely out of the normal.

 

What temps does it reach under load?

Hi, i dont know what's the best way to stress test cpu so i you can tell me i can try that and show what the temps look like there.
This are temps after 5 mins at idle

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3 minutes ago, abrojo said:

Hi, i dont know what's the best way to stress test cpu so i you can tell me i can try that and show what the temps look like there.
This are temps after 5 mins at idle

Those temps are high for idle but that is only an issue if you hit 95C when not in Idle.

 

Passmark or Prime 95 or Cinebench (multicore) are good CPU stress tests, but the first thing to do would probably be to run some games and see what the temps do then. Benchmarks are really a worst case so how the computer performs in them isn't very important.

Can I ask what case you have and what fans you have in it?

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4 minutes ago, Dr. Will0hlep said:

Those temps are high for idle but that is only an issue if you hit 95C when not in Idle.

 

Passmark or Prime 95 or Cinebench (multicore) are good CPU stress tests, but the first thing to do would probably be to run some games and see what the temps do then. Benchmarks are really a worst case so how the computer performs in them isn't very important.

Can I ask what case you have and what fans you have in it?

Case is Antec C3 with the pre-installed fans (3 intake 1 exhaust).

Will try some gaming and see what happens. I dont have a gpu right now so I will try to play something not too demanding 

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1 hour ago, Dr. Will0hlep said:

Those temps are high for idle but that is only an issue if you hit 95C when not in Idle.

 

Passmark or Prime 95 or Cinebench (multicore) are good CPU stress tests, but the first thing to do would probably be to run some games and see what the temps do then. Benchmarks are really a worst case so how the computer performs in them isn't very important.

Can I ask what case you have and what fans you have in it?

OK im pretty sure I fixed it. 'Fan Control Use Temperature input' was set to system 1 and the pump wasn't pumping. After I put CPU there, Flow Rate immediately jumped and temps came back to 20 ish C.

Thanks for the help

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9 minutes ago, abrojo said:

OK im pretty sure I fixed it. 'Fan Control Use Temperature input' was set to system 1 and the pump wasn't pumping. After I put CPU there, Flow Rate immediately jumped and temps came back to 20 ish C.

Thanks for the help

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Check other settings like memory speed too, BIOS updates often reset everything to default (or recommend you do so).

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