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Hey guys my fx-6300 is hitting a major milestone of 82C while gaming (Mostly H1Z1,FarCry4 and any modern games ) :(. ideal temperature is good like 21-35C and my ambient room temperature is around 31C.i'm using the stock cooler that came with the CPU and haven't replaced the thermal paste (yet). I cleaned out my PC yesterday the cooler was full of dust lol , after cleaning didn't notice any temperature change. I already ordered a new Cooler tho (Deepcool Gammaxx 300) so whats causing the overheating ? i'm sure stock coolers can handle the temperature and i'm not overclocking the CPU =(

 

btw, decided not to play any games until i get this sorted out =/

 

To mods : Plz don't lock this ik this isn't the right forum to post it but i'd like to know others opinion thx you can close the thread once i find out the solution :)

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

 

btw, i've had the CPU for 10Months!

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Uncle Sikee Atric

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OK....

 

Question one, do you have an open airflow around your GPU, or are you blowing that hot air straight back into the CPU cavity?

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Crystal3lf

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ideal temperature is good like 21-35C

You are not going to get 21-35C with a stock cooler. Even with water cooling you'd be lucky to get that. I have a i7-4790k with a a Corsair H110 cooler and at idle it's only at 28C.

 

82C is a little high, but not bad by all means, you'd probably want 70-75C with a stock cooler in-game. Maybe you can increase some airflow inside your case by doing some cable management or putting a few extra case fans in to exhaust the hot air.

GtaGamer2222

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It was overheating for me too, i changed my motherboard, check this page: http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database

it was fine until last month but the temperature started to raise suddenly =/

 

 

 

 

You are not going to get 21-35C with a stock cooler. Even with water cooling you'd be lucky to get that. I have a i7-4790k with a a Corsair H110 cooler and at idle it's only at 28C.
really ? i even get 18C at times lol

 

82C is a little high, but not bad by all means, you'd probably want 70-75C with a stock cooler in-game. Maybe you can increase some airflow inside your case by doing some cable management or putting a few extra case fans in to exhaust the hot air.

 

And i have 2 empty holes for 2 top exhaust fans i might fill them in :)

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Uncle Sikee Atric

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OK, in that case, a hot ambient temp points in the direction of thermal paste problems, so new paste should fix it. But since you are going that way, a new heatsink and fan will help as well.

 

In hot ambient temps, a cooling breeze from the fans should be enough, so long as dust doesn't block the airways, but you ruled that out.

 

Once the new paste and heatsink is in place, make sure you perform a light stress test and observe the temps. The safeties should have blocked any damage, but it is best just to make sure.

 

Edit : Large case fans are cheap and one set as an exhaust will be more than enough.... Try and set it more above the GPU if you have a choice, since the air directly behind it and being blown through it is very prone to trapping and heating.

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GtaGamer2222

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OK, in that case, a hot ambient temp points in the direction of thermal paste problems, so new paste should fix it. But since you are going that way, a new heatsink and fan will help as well.

 

In hot ambient temps, a cooling breeze from the fans should be enough, so long as dust doesn't block the airways, but you ruled that out.

 

Once the new paste and heatsink is in place, make sure you perform a light stress test and observe the temps. The safeties should have blocked any damage, but it is best just to make sure.

ok thx :) the new cooler might take 4-5 days to reach me tho no gaming until then =/

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

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GtaGamer2222

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really ? i even get 18C at times lol

I can tell you right now you don't. Unless you have some sort of magical AMD cooler. Use AIDA64 and get some real benchmarking temps.

 

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and i didn't say i get constant 18C i said "at times" when idle

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thegreekman99

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62c is the the max temp on the core on the fx 6300 everything above is dangerous running at 58c is also reducing lifespan of the cpu.I also have a fx 6300 and during summer i was getting max 59c with stock cooler now i have replaced it to a really cheap cnps10x with noctua nf f12 fan and it near to silent and never gets above 45c while running prime95(and i live in greece). You cant get (21-35c ) that temps at idle and no way at full laod or near to full laod,you can get lower temps in winter.When you put your new cooler try prime95 small FTTs and see your temps (core temp and socket temp).If the temps dont go atleast 55c you maybe having a serious problem.

LawasDS

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Hey guys my fx-6300 is hitting a major milestone of 82C while gaming (Mostly H1Z1,FarCry4 and any modern games ) :(. ideal temperature is good like 21-35C and my ambient room temperature is around 31C.i'm using the stock cooler that came with the CPU and haven't replaced the thermal paste (yet). I cleaned out my PC yesterday the cooler was full of dust lol , after cleaning didn't notice any temperature change. I already ordered a new Cooler tho (Deepcool Gammaxx 300) so whats causing the overheating ? i'm sure stock coolers can handle the temperature and i'm not overclocking the CPU =(

 

btw, decided not to play any games until i get this sorted out =/

 

To mods : Plz don't lock this ik this isn't the right forum to post it but i'd like to know others opinion thx you can close the thread once i find out the solution :)

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

 

Maybe extreme overclocking? OR just bad cooling/thermal paste placement.

 

 

I've got an Fx6300 myself for a year and I had it stock+stock cooler and it kept fresh as F. I also tried mild overclocking and it worked fine too.

 

Like 6 months ago I changed the cooler to a Cooler Master CPU Fan I believe to try heavy overclocking but it turned out my motherboard is pretty sh*t and can't handle overclocking properly so I turned back to stock. Still, when overclocking, it didn't go past 80* while stress tested with super heavy overclocking (4.5ghz to 5.0ghz)

GtaGamer2222

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Hey guys my fx-6300 is hitting a major milestone of 82C while gaming (Mostly H1Z1,FarCry4 and any modern games ) :(. ideal temperature is good like 21-35C and my ambient room temperature is around 31C.i'm using the stock cooler that came with the CPU and haven't replaced the thermal paste (yet). I cleaned out my PC yesterday the cooler was full of dust lol , after cleaning didn't notice any temperature change. I already ordered a new Cooler tho (Deepcool Gammaxx 300) so whats causing the overheating ? i'm sure stock coolers can handle the temperature and i'm not overclocking the CPU =(

 

btw, decided not to play any games until i get this sorted out =/

 

To mods : Plz don't lock this ik this isn't the right forum to post it but i'd like to know others opinion thx you can close the thread once i find out the solution :)

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

 

Maybe extreme overclocking? OR just bad cooling/thermal paste placement.

 

EDIT: i've had the CPU for 10 months now

 

 

I've got an Fx6300 myself for a year and I had it stock+stock cooler and it kept fresh as F. I also tried mild overclocking and it worked fine too.

 

Like 6 months ago I changed the cooler to a Cooler Master CPU Fan I believe to try heavy overclocking but it turned out my motherboard is pretty sh*t and can't handle overclocking properly so I turned back to stock. Still, when overclocking, it didn't go past 80* while stress tested with super heavy overclocking (4.5ghz to 5.0ghz)

 

it ran fine until last month maybe thermal paste got exhausted or whatever =/ btw, is there any other factors that cause overheating other than thermal paste and poor air flow ? :O

 

Btw, i've had the CPU for 10 months now :)

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LawasDS

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Hey guys my fx-6300 is hitting a major milestone of 82C while gaming (Mostly H1Z1,FarCry4 and any modern games ) :(. ideal temperature is good like 21-35C and my ambient room temperature is around 31C.i'm using the stock cooler that came with the CPU and haven't replaced the thermal paste (yet). I cleaned out my PC yesterday the cooler was full of dust lol , after cleaning didn't notice any temperature change. I already ordered a new Cooler tho (Deepcool Gammaxx 300) so whats causing the overheating ? i'm sure stock coolers can handle the temperature and i'm not overclocking the CPU =(

 

btw, decided not to play any games until i get this sorted out =/

 

To mods : Plz don't lock this ik this isn't the right forum to post it but i'd like to know others opinion thx you can close the thread once i find out the solution :)

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

 

Maybe extreme overclocking? OR just bad cooling/thermal paste placement.

 

EDIT: i've had the CPU for 10 months now

 

 

I've got an Fx6300 myself for a year and I had it stock+stock cooler and it kept fresh as F. I also tried mild overclocking and it worked fine too.

 

Like 6 months ago I changed the cooler to a Cooler Master CPU Fan I believe to try heavy overclocking but it turned out my motherboard is pretty sh*t and can't handle overclocking properly so I turned back to stock. Still, when overclocking, it didn't go past 80* while stress tested with super heavy overclocking (4.5ghz to 5.0ghz)

 

it ran fine until last month maybe thermal paste got exhausted or whatever =/ btw, is there any other factors that cause overheating other than thermal paste and poor air flow ? :O

 

Btw, i've had the CPU for 10 months now :)

 

 

Dust, Overclocking, Viruses, Energy Configs, Software related issues.....

thegreekman99

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Hey guys my fx-6300 is hitting a major milestone of 82C while gaming (Mostly H1Z1,FarCry4 and any modern games ) :(. ideal temperature is good like 21-35C and my ambient room temperature is around 31C.i'm using the stock cooler that came with the CPU and haven't replaced the thermal paste (yet). I cleaned out my PC yesterday the cooler was full of dust lol , after cleaning didn't notice any temperature change. I already ordered a new Cooler tho (Deepcool Gammaxx 300) so whats causing the overheating ? i'm sure stock coolers can handle the temperature and i'm not overclocking the CPU =(

 

btw, decided not to play any games until i get this sorted out =/

 

To mods : Plz don't lock this ik this isn't the right forum to post it but i'd like to know others opinion thx you can close the thread once i find out the solution :)

 

EDIT: Just noticed that CPU temperature shoots to 40C when using chrome =/

 

Maybe extreme overclocking? OR just bad cooling/thermal paste placement.

 

EDIT: i've had the CPU for 10 months now

 

 

I've got an Fx6300 myself for a year and I had it stock+stock cooler and it kept fresh as F. I also tried mild overclocking and it worked fine too.

 

Like 6 months ago I changed the cooler to a Cooler Master CPU Fan I believe to try heavy overclocking but it turned out my motherboard is pretty sh*t and can't handle overclocking properly so I turned back to stock. Still, when overclocking, it didn't go past 80* while stress tested with super heavy overclocking (4.5ghz to 5.0ghz)

 

it ran fine until last month maybe thermal paste got exhausted or whatever =/ btw, is there any other factors that cause overheating other than thermal paste and poor air flow ? :O

 

Btw, i've had the CPU for 10 months now :)

 

How months you have that cpu installed?

Red Hat

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it ran fine until last month maybe thermal paste got exhausted or whatever =/ btw, is there any other factors that cause overheating other than thermal paste and poor air flow ? :O

 

Btw, i've had the CPU for 10 months now :)

Improper installation of the heatsink and/or fan.

thegreekman99

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Some people say that they change thermal paste every 6 months and after that period the thermal paste becomes really "dry", but this is recommended from enthusiast that oc their cpu as hell.I was running a c2d with same thermal paste for 6 years and nothing happened to me(some may say yeah but is was intel cpu,but it was 6 years old paste!!!).Lets hope the fault is the thermal paste. It somehow strange to go 30c over the maximum temps.Yes the thermal paste does matter in temps but no 30c.

 

10 months!

 

well then i'm having issues with thermal paste and heatsink i guess =/

i hope the new heatsink helps (i should lol :S)

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really ? i even get 18C at times lol

That's because new AMD CPUs don't have a temperature sensor as such. I'm not sure how temp readings are made, but it often produces false results.

CPU temperature cannot fall below ambient temperature with typical air/water cooling.

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thegreekman99

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On amd(NOT ALL AMD) the fx series the sensor is the socket temps which always little higher.

 

really ? i even get 18C at times lol

That's because new AMD CPUs don't have a temperature sensor as such. I'm not sure how temp readings are made, but it often produces false results.
CPU temperature cannot fall below ambient temperature with typical air/water cooling.

 

RyanBurnsRed

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ideal temperature is good like 21-35C

You are not going to get 21-35C with a stock cooler. Even with water cooling you'd be lucky to get that. I have a i7-4790k with a a Corsair H110 cooler and at idle it's only at 28C.

 

82C is a little high, but not bad by all means, you'd probably want 70-75C with a stock cooler in-game. Maybe you can increase some airflow inside your case by doing some cable management or putting a few extra case fans in to exhaust the hot air.

 

 

 

Really? Do AMD CPUs really run that much hotter? With an H80i my 4.0Ghz Xeon idles in that range, but it never gets higher than 32C. The coolest core stays at around 18-20C. I'll agree that 82C is high. Not just a little high.

 

To the OP: Getting a new cooler is fine and all, but it won't do you much good if you don't have proper AIRFLOW. If your temperatures are better with the side of the case off, then you have very poor air circulation.

TheMcSame

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Really? Do AMD CPUs really run that much hotter? With an H80i my 4.0Ghz Xeon idles in that range, but it never gets higher than 32C. The coolest core stays at around 18-20C. I'll agree that 82C is high. Not just a little high.

A somewhat bad comparison if you ask me. Intel uses binned chips for Xeons.

 

Anyway. Yeah, AMD's chips do run hotter because they aren't as efficient. Basically, AMD's default voltages are very high, the default voltage to hit the 6300's turbo speed is something like 1.4v. Despite AMD's stock cooler being better than Intel's, the 4790k will run at about 70-80C (results varied quite a lot from my short research :p) while running Prime 95 with the stock cooler.

 

 

Anyway, OP. Could've swore I posted this before, evidently not. If the temps worry you then a decent solution would be to undervolt the CPU.

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RyanBurnsRed

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You're right, but I wouldn't have been able to hit 4.0Ghz with these temps had I used an air cooler like the Hyper EVO 212 anyway.

The OP should still check his airflow. Getting a new cooler might not completely solve his problem. If anything it'll just be a placebo effect...a band-aid on a wound essentially.

 

A guy on the Star Citizen forums had problems with his GTX 780 overheating. Turns out his PC had terrible airflow. Once he improved it, not only did his temperatures go down, but his performance went up since his card wasn't throttling itself anymore. I think this might be the same case here since not a whole lot of people think about proper airflow or cable management.

sivispacem

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If it's a sudden think that suggests an issue with the cooler or thermal paste rather than an airflow problem. Assuming nothing has been fundamentally changed of course.

 

Yes, the FX series run hotter than Intel and throttle at a lower temperature, but the 83** series seem to have pretty good thermal behaviour even at quite substantial overclocks. On an H100i at 4.5GHz I was pushing high 50s at 100% load after an hour in Prime, and showing no signs of climbing.

thegreekman99

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i personally dont recommend to oc fx cpus because after oc is very different from intel.The overclocking doesnt affect performance in modern cpu and games(atleast most games) i noticed that when i was doing my oc on the 6300 from 3.5 to 4.1 and fps increase was 1 fps maybe 2.If your cpu dont overheat just keep your money for new gpu because that will give you a huge boost.And cpu "bottleneck" doesnt even exist after fx 6300 and i3 cpus.

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sivispacem

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The above is, by and large, complete nonsense.

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