3700X and Noctua NH-D15 temps

[BlackDragon]

Hi,

As of yesterday, I switched from Intel to an AMD 3700X. I have read that idle temperatures can seem high due to CPU voltage being automatically boosted to give the CPU a clock of around 4.1/4.2 GHz.

I want to get an understanding of whether the temps achieved with my cooler are expected. I had some issues securing the cooler the first time, where one side lifted off a few times away from the thermal paste in my attempts to screw it in to the spring, which may have created some issues with the applied TIM.

At idle, hwinfo reports something between 35-45c (fluctuates a lot) and Ryzen Master reports around 35c.

Stress testing with CPU-Z, hwinfo and Ryzen Master report 71.3c.

 

[BlackDragon]

Great, thanks! Was worried I was going to have to re-fit my cooler.

I'm not that familiar with AMD these days

 

[BlackDragon]

Those temperature are perfectly normal and expected and similar to what i see using the stock cooler.

Hmm shouldn't I be getting lower temps compared to the stock cooler? I am using the Noctua NH-D15 which is a lot bigger!

 

[BlackDragon]

I have a follow up question.

I’m thinking of setting a small undervolt offset to reduce the temps a little bit.

I have a Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite. Is it just a case of leaving all the other BIOS settings at the defaults, changing the offset by small amount, then checking things are stable with a stress test? Anything else I should be looking out for?

 

[BlackDragon]

Ok thanks for the feedback, I’ll leave it as is

I’ll just tweak the fan profile settings as I find it a bit annoying that it spins up when I’m not doing that much.