Fx-4300 running hot

[PCBudgetSolutions]

It's hitting 60*c in the bios with the cpu fan at 100%. I redid the heatsink 10 times using 5 different pastes using anywhere from a little to a lot. Case is open with a fan blowing on it. Any ideas?

[PCBudgetSolutions]

The aluminum fins on the heat sink barely feel warm.

[Levent]

what about voltages?

are you SURE that you seated the cooler nice?

Edited June 9, 2013 by Levent

[ALXAndy]

Your CPU is usually under full load in the bios dude.

[Levent]

Your CPU is usually under full load in the bios dude.

there is not such load in bios to cause instability even with a overclock that wont even boot in to windows because of overclock

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Actually the heat fins are almost cold

[Henry]

RMA it...Definitely a defective product.
 

OR, reset bios to factory default settings and make sure heatsink is not loose.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Turns out the hold downs to the preinstalled bracket are loose nvm

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Now this is weird.  However I hear that HW Monitor is not very good at monitoring voltages.  But my temps are not right.  Haven't fixed the bracket yet.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

1.4V seems very high.  Is it just the heatsink is bad?  It's still running 60*C in the bios.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Voltages under load on "auto" are bouncing between 1.2-1.46.  What should I set them to?  I have to be 100% sure because this person lives across the country.

[SkulD]

Hi!, the sensor that you bios is reading from is located near or under the CPU area, and the sensors hardware monitor uses are the ones inside the CPU itself as far as I know.

 

I have 3 PCs running, and in all of them temps are a little higher on bios than on HW monitor, I did some research on the internet and learned that the MB sensor is no IN the CPU, so I started to disregard its temp reports, and haven't had a problem with any of my PCs, and I have them all overclocked.

 

Did you fixed the cooler yet?.

[KneesWeak]

Voltages under load on "auto" are bouncing between 1.2-1.46.  What should I set them to?  I have to be 100% sure because this person lives across the country.

You should really change your name...Ha. Anyway the mounting points for the heatsink definitely did it so its good you checked that.  You said you changed it out 10 times?  What are you cleaning it with? Isopropyl alcohol and some coffee filters work great most of the time.  Don't put on too much paste.  Also the hsf should be snug enough to the point where it shouldn't move around ever if you try to jerk it.  Voltage fluctuation shouldn't put your temps that high but if you could find the lowest stable voltage, here's how I'd do it start at idk..say 1.3 volts go onto windows run prime 95 (small ffts) and download coretemp if you get a bsod or you see one of the threads is not under 100% load then slightly raise the voltage if everything is fine lower the voltage then you should successfully have an undervolted cpu running at stock clocks stably.  If your still getting ridiculous temps RMA or just ignore it because there's a good chance one of the sensors when bad or was bad to begin with.  What motherboard do you have?

[PCBudgetSolutions]

MSI 97A-G43 is the board.  I really don't want to mess with voltages because if it's under volted and fails I have to pay to ship it back and fix anything.  I'm worried about 1.46V, and even after bios flash it isn't helping.  The problem is we think the sensors are bad as we tried another PSU (mine) and the voltages across the board is the same.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

I am getting weird temps all around, in HW Monitor its saying below ambient temp, on Core Temp it's say about ambient temp, bios reads well above ambient temp, but everywhere the voltage is spiking between 1.2-1.4V.  Is it bad sensors?  How can I test them?

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Whats weird is, OCCT isn't showing temps.  

[SkulD]

close HW monitor then reopen occt, see if that works.

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Tried that.  I am running Prime 95 all night, if the PC hasn't burnt down then I will game on it for 2 weeks before I ship it.  Here are the specs:

FX-4300

MSI 970A-43G

2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz

500GB Seagate HD

Samsung DVD-RW

Corsair CX430

GTX 550 TI (reused from their old PC)

Forget the name of the case but I do like it alot.  The temp in my room is up around 27*C now since it's been on running.  Core Temp and HW Monitor both show about 51*C which honestly I feel like it's atleast 10-20*C warmer than that, the CPU that is.

[SkulD]

If hardware monitor shows 51C con full load for an extended period of time, then I'd believe it, since I use that program to measure my temps, and I have never had a problem, if the heat fins feel hotter that's great!, it means that heat is being properly transferred away from the cpu by the heat pipes where the fans do their magic.

[Richyo]

For the below ambient temps, that is what is happening to my little brothers FX6100 so i guess that is ok.

 

Do you have any of the power saving options/turbo core enabled?

1.4v is a overclock voltage so could be ur tubo kicking in