What is broken?

ttaskmaster

ttaskmaster

ttaskmaster

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Heya,

I have an AMD FX6350 on an Asus M5A78 LE board being cooled by a refurbed H100 with the included twin 120s pulling from above, in a Corsair 500R with 1x200mm, 2x120mm intakes and a 120mm exhaust. Just installed everything, so BIOS is pretty much set to defaults on everything.

I'm not especially tech-savvy, but I know I shouldn't be able to get sub-ambient temperatures with just an H100 cooler. However, my CPU without load is hovering between 26°C and 3°. Room temp is about 14-16°C.

Is something broken on my board or the CPU, do you think?
 
ttaskmaster said:
Heya,

I have an AMD FX6350 on an Asus M5A78 LE board being cooled by a refurbed H100 with the included twin 120s pulling from above, in a Corsair 500R with 1x200mm, 2x120mm intakes and a 120mm exhaust. Just installed everything, so BIOS is pretty much set to defaults on everything.

I'm not especially tech-savvy, but I know I shouldn't be able to get sub-ambient temperatures with just an H100 cooler. However, my CPU without load is hovering between 26°C and 3°. Room temp is about 14-16°C.

Is something broken on my board or the CPU, do you think?
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I think the sensors on AMD chips are not that great when it comes to idle temps... I've seen this with many AMD chips where the idle temp reading is much lower than ambient temp. You should get a more realistic reading under load (the only temp you need to worry about).
 
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