Heat Issue Questions

[amd133mhz]

Going to be going to a friends house to fix his rig so this is sight unseen...

 

His idle temps on a FX-8320 are 84c. The processor is NOT overclocked.

 

His pc is shutting itself down when he plays any game thats taxing on it ie GTA V Dragon Age etc

 

Now I think it is either no and or burned up thermal paste, faulty fan on heat sink or a combo of dusty heat sink faulty fan and no thermal paste. 

 

What say YOU? FYI he bought this rig from newegg (ibuypower) about a year ago and has had trouble with it since he bought it.

 

Another theory I have is the heat sink is not properly secure to the mobo and there is a air gap.

 

Again, sight unseen. What say YOU?

 

edit: Thanks to all who reply

[Godlygamer23]

Check the thermal paste, mounting, and the fan in reverse order.

[Stefan1024]

yes it's definitly not cooled properly....

[blackadder]

If hes been having problems should of rma a year ago. Alao i think the cooler or thermal paste is likely just like yourself.

[BSpendlove]

I would suspect it that the Heatsink isn't properly placed and apply some new thermal paste on the CPU.

 

Idle!?!?! Yeah it wouldn't surprise me that the PC is shutting down when in idle at 84c.

[BSpendlove]

Also, make sure he hasn't mucked around in the BIOS settings, he may of tried to overclock and just ramped up the volts? haha

[9justinas9]

try

1 clean dust build up

2 reapply thermal paste

3 check fan spinning

4 check temps at iddle

5 if its stock cooler ot bad cooler well... its ... it could be that

[Godlygamer23]

Also, make sure he hasn't mucked around in the BIOS settings, he may of tried to overclock and just ramped up the volts? haha

That is a definite possibility.

[amd133mhz]

ok I replaced the thermal paste( put on ic diamond) and put the stock cooler on the processor the CPU fan is spinning out to 5000 rpm and has hit 40 idle at BIOS

[k4p84]

Its shutting down due to heat, yer sounds correct.

Really should have called support immediately not let it cook for months, oh well.

 

1 - Open her up and just look for obvious, tons of dust, etc, does the cooler feel secure?

2 - Boot with the side off, does the fan even spin (bad fan, bad header, BIOS setting)

3 - Task manager, is there an app running massive CPU load (virus)

3 - BIOS, you can disable CPU fan , alarms as well as overvolt or set stupid fan speeds there so do a BIOS settings reset to rule them out.

4 - Remove the cooler, clean up and replace the thermal paste. Replace the cooler tightening it down in diagonals.

 

99% we are looking at  cooler issue but have a look through the list and report back.

[amd133mhz]

Ok so idles at 25-30 in windows, with stock cooler hits 81 when playing gta v under full load. is that too hot ? Best I could get with stock cooler and ic diamond paste.

[9justinas9]

Ok so idles at 25-30 in windows, with stock cooler hits 81 when playing gta v under full load. is that too hot ? Best I could get with stock cooler and ic diamond paste.

stock cooler? yes its normal. thats why i highly against overclocking on stock cooler. just get a hyper 212 evo or tx4 and forget about it remember amd cpus are really hold they produce a lot of heat 125w of tdp. i use hyper 212 evo on 88w tdp cpu and it still gets toasy when overclocked