Athlon x4 860k Running too HOT!

[ejcomerzan]

Currently having some pretty high temps on my athlon x4 860k. So just upgraded my motherboard to an asrock fm2a88x extreme4+ motherboard. Got everything installed and booted into windows no problem, after installing all the new drivers and getting everything set up I started to do some monitoring. Using HWmonitor im getting some funny results. Ill post a pic of these. But at idle under my motherboard temps it shows a steady 33-34 degree, but under the Athlon x4 860k package temps it shows 49-50 degrees. Is something wrong here? Also on my old mother board a biostar hi-fi i would use core temp and get about 40 degrees at idle with the stock cooler, but with this new asrock mobo core temp doesnt even work. As soon as i open it it starts at 50 degrees and just drops all the way to 0, obviously cant be right. Any ideas of whats going on here? Am i just not looking at this right? Also there is no overclock everything is stock and also have a Corsair H55 on it now. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks 

[wizkid32]

So that's ~50 degrees with a water cooler?  Hmm, that does seem a bit on the high side.  It's not dangerously high, so no need to worry about that, but I have an FX-8320 overclocked on a cheap CM liquid cooler, and it's never gotten above 50 degrees, even under Prime95 loads, so that does seem a bit warm.

 

What is the ambient temperature?  This can make a huge difference, so if it's hot and there's no A/C, that could be at least part of the problem...

[niofalpha]

How hot is it under load?

 

iirc FM2 (And recent AMD CPU's in general) has a reputation for bad temp sensors

[niofalpha]

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[Opcode]

Most of this software has taken a blind eye to temperature registers from Richland onward. Try downloading the trial of AIDA64 and see what your CPU temperature is (not cores) under sensors. Also check your BIOS for temperatures and see where them sit.

[ejcomerzan]

So that's ~50 degrees with a water cooler? Hmm, that does seem a bit on the high side. It's not dangerously high, so no need to worry about that, but I have an FX-8320 overclocked on a cheap CM liquid cooler, and it's never gotten above 50 degrees, even under Prime95 loads, so that does seem a bit warm.

What is the ambient temperature? This can make a huge difference, so if it's hot and there's no A/C, that could be at least part of the problem...

I have the A/C on all the time so the ambient temp is never above 73 degrees Fahrenheit. My last mobo I had in this system was in the same room and same spot. And it would show idle temps at like 43-45 with the stock cooler

Most of this software has taken a blind eye to temperature registers from Richland onward. Try downloading the trial of AIDA64 and see what your CPU temperature is (not cores) under sensors. Also check your BIOS for temperatures and see where them sit.

As soon as I get back from work I will try AIDa64 and see what I get. But even in the bios with the stock cooler I would see the cpu temp sit at 60 degrees sometimes and the mobo would be steady at 30. After the water cooler installed I see it sit at about 38-39 in the bios

How hot is it under load?

iirc FM2 (And recent AMD CPU's in general) has a reputation for bad temp sensors

I haven't put it under load yet. Spent most of the night doing some research about it and re-applying thermal paste. When I get back from work I'll do some test and post the results. Thanks

[Guest trucker2]

My daughters A10-7850k showed 70C at idle but showed none of the usual signs of a hot cpu on the screen so I just ignored it. I did wounder if I forgot to remove that plastic thingy on the bottom of the coolermaster cooler. Ran some benchmarks to heat it up. it does fine. Hope this helps some.

[ejcomerzan]

I think everything is running okay. I just got done doing some load test on the cpu. I used 3 different monitoring systems just to get an average, i used HWmonitor, AIDA64(thanks Opcode), and the utility that came with my mobo. At idle all the programs gave the same reading of 28-30 degrees. I used prime95 and did a stress test for about 15 mins and the highest temps i got for all 3 programs was 46 degrees. These were more of the numbers I was expecting to see especially with a water cooler even being a cheap one. Though for some reason still in HWmonitor package temp under the athlon cpu is still about 50 degrees at idle. Not sure why this is, but im just going to ignore that i guess since all the other programs values matched each other. Thanks for the help guys!!

[TEMETITO]

On 5/31/2015 at 6:26 PM, YoungProgrammer said:

On 5/31/2015 at 2:52 AM, ejcomerzan said:

Currently having some pretty high temps on my athlon x4 860k. So just upgraded my motherboard to an asrock fm2a88x extreme4+ motherboard. Got everything installed and booted into windows no problem, after installing all the new drivers and getting everything set up I started to do some monitoring. Using HWmonitor im getting some funny results. Ill post a pic of these. But at idle under my motherboard temps it shows a steady 33-34 degree, but under the Athlon x4 860k package temps it shows 49-50 degrees. Is something wrong here? Also on my old mother board a biostar hi-fi i would use core temp and get about 40 degrees at idle with the stock cooler, but with this new asrock mobo core temp doesnt even work. As soon as i open it it starts at 50 degrees and just drops all the way to 0, obviously cant be right. Any ideas of whats going on here? Am i just not looking at this right? Also there is no overclock everything is stock and also have a Corsair H55 on it now. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Try replacing the thermal goop. My 860k generally is at the 30-40 degree mark with a hyper t4 (yeah ik I'm poor)

I HAVE THE SAME COOLER DUDE 

 

[Nena Trinity]

Use AMD Overdrive to measure temps dammit everything else will give you wrong temps!!!