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Help with AMD 8350 Temps IDLE

frenchcheese99

frenchcheese99

frenchcheese99

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Hey, this is my first and probably only thread on this forum.

Recently, I have bought a new motherboard to support the 4ghz my AMD fx-8350 can reach. My old motherboard could only use the CPU to 2.8ghz. I reapplied thermal paste in the new mobo and everything seemed fine, except when I opened the ASROCK Extreme Tuning Utility I saw that my CPU was at Temperatures ranging from 50c to 77c. The fans are now unbearably loud and it doesn't even help the temperatures at all. This is idle, bearing in mind. I am too afraid of running any games because of the pc in idle and I am just stumped on what to do.

I am getting a new cooler tommorrow, upgrading the stock one. "COOLERMASTER HYPER 212 Evo RR-212E-16PK-R1 120 mm CPU Cooler"

The stock one is incredibly dusty, could this be it? Could it be my application of Thermal Paste? I used Artic Silver 5 and the middle dot technique (with no tanning).

What are my options here?
 
The new motherboard is an "ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0" and the old motherboard was a gigabyte one that was extremely bad, I couldn't find it anywhere on the internet. It was a gigabyte one and came with a stock PC somewhere from china that I got off Amazon. It is the PC I have upgraded since. It only supported 95w processors and that is the reason it was knocking down my clock speed to 2.8ghz. I believe reading a thread about it on this website.

My cable management is poor but there are no wires in the way of the CPU fan or any other fans.

How would I go about checking power saving features, should they be on/off? How do I check clock is stepping down at idle?

Forgive me, I am not that technologically advanced. I am used to just sticking in the components and it working straight away. I greatly appreciate your advice and replies.

Tomorrow I will be cleaning all dust in my PC and installing the "COOLERMASTER HYPER 212 Evo RR-212E-16PK-R1 120 mm CPU Cooler".
 
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I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to get my new cooler until I am able to make any decisions. I am likely not going to be able to return the motherboard because my mother is opposed to the idea.

Thanks for the input, I will update tomorrow.
 
This is Frenchcheese's dad (he's 13) and I understand the issues you are discussing here, but I would like to test the motherboard with the new cpu cooler installed before I consider sending it back. Does anyone here actually know how much it costs to send a motherboard back? I am liable for that cost, Overclockers will not refund me on that. But thanks for the advice anyway...
 
I have cool and quite enabled. When idle, my task manager said I was using 10% of my CPU and ASRock Extreme Tuner said my CPU was 50 degrees with the fans easily over 50 db. The RPM on my CPU fan was 4000rpm.

Below is an image of my CPU, would the dust have this significant of an impact?

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Alright cheers will tell you how it is later, thanks for all the advice and help. The PSU is really bad and I am probably gonna upgrade just so I can have a 960 next year (I needed to get a 750ti last year because it didn't have the necessary pins).

Again I really appreciate the help you are giving me!
 
I think returning the motherboard is out of the question. I still haven't got the cooler yet, though. Can you guys recommend a good cooler for it? Preferably somewhere under £50, even more preferably under £30. Hopefully one that isn't loud?
 
I managed to fit the cooler in, but now I believe my PSU has blown up.

I was playing Dirt 3 on it for a good 15 minutes at under 60 C and then I heard a loud bang with a brown flash of light. I believe it is my PSU, and I pray to god it is just my PSU. If my mobo, gpu or cpu has blown I think I am just gonna shrivel down and cry.

Advice?
 
Hey guys, got the 750m in my machine and it is doing fine after about 15 minutes of skyrim. I got lucky and everything seems to be working in order.

CPU temps idle are now 34 c and whilst playing skyrim about 44c. Thanks for all your help guys, especially Concrete and Avenged! Thank you so much!
 
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