cpu AMD 860k temps?

[Grooovy]

Im a new builder and finished my build using the 860k several months ago. Until this weekend i had been using AMD's stock heatsink and had idle temps in the range of 50c(the lowest) to 80c( once i hit 90c ). This weekend i installed a closed water cooling loop that had been used in a friends build. After installing it i have experienced idle temps like 44c-50c and the temp has only hit 77c once, but during some aida 64 cpu benchmarks it looks like the temp wouldnt go over 72c. Although i have seen improvements in temperatures after installing the water cooler, im wondering if i should be experiencing temps in the 70s with a water cooler? btw the cooler is a 120mm asetek. Any input on the situation is welcome.

[vagabond139]

You have to AMDOver drive to get the thermal margin, those temperatures aren't accurate. 

[Streetguru]

11 minutes ago, Grooovy said:

Im a new builder and finished my build using the 860k several months ago. Until this weekend i had been using AMD's stock heatsink and had idle temps in the range of 50c(the lowest) to 80c( once i hit 90c ). This weekend i installed a closed water cooling loop that had been used in a friends build. After installing it i have experienced idle temps like 44c-50c and the temp has only hit 77c once, but during some aida 64 cpu benchmarks it looks like the temp wouldnt go over 72c. Although i have seen improvements in temperatures after installing the water cooler, im wondering if i should be experiencing temps in the 70s with a water cooler? btw the cooler is a 120mm asetek. Any input on the situation is welcome.

It's probably fine under the water cooler, wouldn't really worry about it. FM2+ temps are hard to get an actual read on

[Cereal5]

Unless you forgot to put thermal compound under the cooler, you'll be fine

[Grooovy]

11 minutes ago, vagabond139 said:

You have to AMDOver drive to get the thermal margin, those temperatures aren't accurate. 

will do, thermal margin displays the temp it would take to get to overheating right? 

[Kevin11]

3 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Unless you forgot to put thermal compound under the cooler, you'll be fine

being that you are using a friends old cooler, you will definitely need to reapply the thermal paste, new closed loop water coolers usually come with preapplied paste, made the installation of my h100i v2 very easy

[vagabond139]

5 hours ago, Grooovy said:

will do, thermal margin displays the temp it would take to get to overheating right? 

AMD displays the thermal margin which is on a scale of 70C to 0C with higher being cooler and 0C being the lowest before throttling or a thermal shutdown. Most programs try to covert the thermal margin into a temperature on a normal scale but fail to do so since as far as I know there isn't a way to covert it since no one knows what X thermal margin equals on a scale of  negative infinity to infinity.