Ryzen High Temp advice

MeatLoaf · 13 Jun 2020 at 00:48

Can anyone offer any advice

My spec is in my sig. Previous to this it had a Ryzen 1600X

On the stock cooler the 1600X was idling at 70C so I purchased an Arctic 34 esports cooler. I also managed to pick up a cheapish 2700X.

Ive installed the cooler and the 2700X using the supplied thermal paste. This is idling at 60C. Im using coretemp to monitor the temps.

Is it normal for ryzens to idle so warm? Ill probably reseat the artctic cooler and ive ordered some AS5 to use instead of the supplied stuff. How tight am I meant to do the nuts on the cooler, there is a bit more turning in them but I don't want to overdo it and break something.

The only thing I can think of trying in the meantime is the stock cooler that came with the 2700X as it just clips on with no tightening required

MeatLoaf · 13 Jun 2020 at 10:01

It's not spring loaded you just have to tight the nuts on the bolts.

I disabled a setting in the bios either core boost or performance per core cant remember the name of it and it knocked 18 degrees off taking it down to around 42 idle.

Is there a setting in the bios to make sure it clicks down when idle similar to speed step with Intel.

Stock volts its giving it is 1.4v. Everything is at stock apart from the ram I've enabled the docp profile for that

I may try a bios reset see if that sorts it

MeatLoaf · 13 Jun 2020 at 22:40

Thanks. I reset the bios no change.

I have reseated the cooler and tightened it fully now - ill do it again when the AS5 arrives

Ive disabled CBD ? in the bios. So it downclocks when idle and jumps to 3.7 when in use.

Temps now in the 40 - 44C range idle. Which is better.

Would a new motherboard help matters at all?

MeatLoaf · 21 Jun 2020 at 14:12

This is what hardware info shows for cpu

MeatLoaf · 27 Jun 2020 at 12:03

So ive installed ryzen master and selected one of the preset profiles and set CPU volts to 1.2v and immediatly saw a huge drop in temps but after reboot its back to normal and 1.4v.

So it looks like my board is over juicing my CPU at stock settings. Ive tried reducing it but i have to use offset mode as i cant manually enter a figure. Changing the figure using this method results in the system failing to post.