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I bought an AMD A6-5400k for a cool and quiet PC but I'm not sure if I'm reading the temperatures from HW Monitor correctly. I've installed an artic cooling freezer pro rev 2 instead of the stock heat sink.

The bios reports around 30c which seems reasonable but HW Monitor seems to vary from 40c (the lowest I've seen it actually) to 65c at idle. That's assuming I'm looking at the bottom underlined temp there but I'm not sure if that's the correct reading or if the top line is the correct reading.

 

I was hoping for much lower temperatures given it's not supposed to be a powerful machine.

Also my motherboard doesn't appear to support undervolting so I can't change the voltage at all.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

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its fine since old amd cpus consumes a lot of power and thats why they are kinda hot... Unless the apu gets over 85ºC, you should be fine

 

also, have you applied the thermal paste?

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5 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

its fine since old amd cpus consumes a lot of power and thats why they are kinda hot... Unless the apu gets over 85ºC, you should be fine

 

also, have you applied the thermal paste?

AMD CPUs have different max temps than Intel. Modern AMD CPUs (anything newer than Athlons) have a max recommended temp of 61C for cores and 71C for the socket.

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Are you getting weird fan behavior, speed fluctuations, and/or other issues with Link?

Are you running AIDA64, HWinfo, CAM, or HWmonitor? (ASUS suite & other monitoring software often have the same issue.)

Corsair Link has problems with some monitoring software so you may have to change some settings to get them to work smoothly.

-For AIDA64: First make sure you have the newest update installed, then, go to Preferences>Stability and make sure the "Corsair Link sensor support" box is checked and make sure the "Asetek LC sensor support" box is UNchecked.

-For HWinfo: manually disable all monitoring of the AIO sensors/components.

-For others: Disable any monitoring of Corsair AIO sensors.

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25 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

its fine since old amd cpus consumes a lot of power and thats why they are kinda hot... Unless the apu gets over 85ºC, you should be fine

 

also, have you applied the thermal paste?

I was under the impression that this was a low powered cpu? Is it just common for AMD cpus to run at higher temperatures?

Yes I've applied thermal paste

 

3rd party cooler, been used before so there was no plastic sheet.

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