Ryzen 5 2600 temps

[nlel1975]

My Ryzen 5 2600 at stock speeds reaches 78C under full Prime95 load. Is this normal? Seems a bit high. I am using the stock AMD Wraith Stealth Cooler.

 

[nlel1975]

Just used the TIM that's comes on the brand new cooler.

 

[nlel1975]

I think its normal AMD CPU runs hotter than intel. In this review they mention temps of 74C with the stock cooler in a blend stress test...

https://www.techspot.com/review/1614-ryzen-2600/page5.html

I am getting 78C in a Small FFT test.

 

[nlel1975]

Not really concerned about the temps just wondered if it was normal with the stock cooler. I used to run temps of 79c with my old i5-2500k @ 4.3 and that was fine, that was with a decent Akasa Venom air cooler. If these kind of temps with the stock cooler were in any way dangerous then AMD would have supplied a better cooler.

It just seemed a bit higher then what I expected with the stock cooler.

 

[nlel1975]

I've had a look at the CPU fan speed in the BIOS, in smart fan mode the fan only ramps up to 100% at 85C so 78C under 100% load isn't extreme.

 

[nlel1975]

Is this adjustable?

If so I would put the 100% lower at 70C. This may be slightly noisier occasionally but possibly anticipate and lower the upper end of the temperatures reached.

Yes it is adjustable, I just set the CPU fan to always full on and under Prime95 the full load temps reached a max of 70C compared to 78C with the default fan settings, I think I will set it to come on 100% at 70C and above.

 

[nlel1975]

Set the CPU fan to come on 100% at 70C and now it reaches a max of 74C but hangs around 73C mostly. A little higher than when I had the CPU fan always at 100% but better than before where it reached 78C. The CPU fan isn't that loud anyway, my graphics card fan is louder.

 

[nlel1975]

Left it running Prime95 small fft for about 40 minutes, with HWinfo it reached a max temp of 74.8C still a bit better than the 78C I achieved after about 15 minutes which would have probably risen to 80C after the same amount of time.

 

[nlel1975]

Have a look in your motherboards BIOS to see if you can make the CPU fan run at 100% at 70C and above. I reckon this knocked 5C off my max temps. I'm too tight to buy a better CPU fan and the 74.8C I'm now seeing isn't extreme. AMD says max temp is 95C so its all OK and normal for this chip with the stock cooler. If these temps with the stock cooler were too high AMD would have supplied a better cooler.

 

[nlel1975]

If the stealth keeps it below dangerous levels in the absolute worst case scenarios, why would AMD need to supply a better cooler? The supplied cooler does exactly what it needs to do.

I'm happy with it, never said I wasn't. I won't be changing it anytime soon. With a better air cooler it might knock 5C to 10C off if you're lucky but what's the point it doesn't matter if its at 74.8C or 64.8C during 100% load on all cores it will never reach that in normal use anyway. The max temp according to AMD is 95C so with the stock cooler its well under that.