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My Dad's cpu is overheating.

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Hi,

I didn't know where to put this post but this sounded most sensible.

So, he's got an amd fx 8350 cooled by a hyper tx3 evo in an msi 970 motherboard, paired with a asus 750 ti, with 2 sticks of 8gb of ddr3 white ram with an nf-f12 in the front as an intake and some random corsair fan as an exhaust behind the cpu wrapped up in a bitfenix neos. Basically I was playing Minecraft (yeah, minecraft out of all things) with shaders and then the PC restarted randomly. I took off the side panel and the heatsink was extremely warm, like, I nearly burnt my hand on it however the gpu was fine though. In MY PC I have a 4690K and a 212 evo. Would my Dad benefit from having a 212 evo and I live with a tx3 evo. I thought this because my max temp us 50 degrees. What do you think? 

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I think it's between themal paste, the fan speed on the cooler, and the airflow in your case.

 

Could you confirm it is not any of those?

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212 evo might help cool down the beast a bit more, but don't quote me on that (everyone I know went AIO for their FX chips)

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Your hand isnt monitoring software. it feeling warm isnt a good method at all to come to a conclusion.

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I think it's between themal paste, the fan speed on the cooler, and the airflow in your case.

 

Could you confirm it is not any of those?

Now that you mention it, it's using the stock thermal paste because I didn't have any thermal compound when making the PC, I'll put some arctic silver 5 in later and see if that helps.

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Now that you mention it, it's using the stock thermal paste because I didn't have any thermal compound when making the PC, I'll put some arctic silver 5 in later and see if that helps.

 

Good call. Stock paste is usually fine, but you'll always get better performance with some of your own.

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Good call. Stock paste is usually fine, but you'll always get better performance with some of your own.

Didn't seem to work, I had shaders on minecraft running in the background (not on screen) whilst listening to music and it just crashed on me. I sadly cannot fit my 212 evo into the bitfenix case. Looking into watercooling AIOs now.

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Uh oh.

My Dad was watching a film on it last night and it overheated, but now I can't turn it back on...

Dead cpu?

Before any of that did you use any temperature monitoring software to see how hot it was getting?

When was the last time you tried to  turn it on?

When it wouldn't turn on what happened, were any of the fans spinning, any beeps?

 

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Before any of that did you use any temperature monitoring software to see how hot it was getting?

When was the last time you tried to  turn it on?

When it wouldn't turn on what happened, were any of the fans spinning, any beeps?

Just nothing happened. Gpu is getting power still, so that's working. Don't know about motherboard.

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My Hyper 212 EVO cooled CPU runs at ~50C max (when all cores at sustained 100% load) with an overclock to 4.4GHz, so if you want to cool an FX 8350 well, a 212 EVO will do. However you shouldn't be having this many issues with that cooler. I would recommend trying to get actual temperature readings if you can get it to boot. Lastly, try to use his CPU in your system, and yours in his. If his is still dodgy in yours then it's not just a cooling issue, there may be something else wrong. Just seen you have an intel CPU, so unless you have a friend with an AM3 socket CPU like the 8350 you can't test like that.

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Just nothing happened. Gpu is getting power still, so that's working. Don't know about motherboard.

So the fans on the video card spin, what about the other fans in the system like the case fans and CPU fan(s)? Does the motherboard make any beeps after you give it power?

 

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So the fans on the video card spin, what about the other fans in the system like the case fans and CPU fan(s)? Does the motherboard make any beeps after you give it power?

It doesn't spin, it just gets LED activation. My Dad said that when it booted it said 'Overclocking settings failed' so I'm resetting the CMOS, also he said he heard it pop, sound like a dead cpu?

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