Open case, stock cooler reaches up to 56 degrees Celsius according to SpeedFan / HWMonitor. I even changed the cooler to the one given with the 4350 (copper heatpipes), nothing. Still 56 degrees if not worse. How is that anything acceptable? Almost 40 degrees on idle is bad.
Did you apply thermal paste? What is your core voltage? Is the cooler seated properly?
I did apply thermal paste, though it may not be the best thermal paste around it should be enough to handle a stock setting (applied a single dot in the middle of the CPU and let the cooler spread it out). The cooler also seems to be stable in position, Vcore goes up to 1.368 V according to CPU-Z.
Well I'm stumped here. What does your voltage go to under load? Also tell me what your BIOS says the voltage is at.
The BIOS says it's up to 1.260 (though 1.368 is reached in turbo clock mode). Do you know what the fan speed max should be on these coolers? Because I suspect the fan could be faster (though 4000 ish is kinda fast).
That sounds about right, I would Google it to be sure. Your voltage is not high enough at all to warrant those temps.
The voltage is right, the fan speed, i have seen people reporting 5000+ RPM. Shouldn't it kick in before reaching 56 damn degrees anyway? Or is 56 OK afterall? Maybe once I get a decent cooler things will settle down. Though it still sounds damn high, especially for open case temp (I have no fans and that's a 15 yr old case, that's why).
Well I know that in my case I get lower temps with it closed. Have you tried that?
Also 56 is safe, if it gets to 60 then start to worry and halt whatever load is on it.
I tried on a closed case, but it was the worst case ever, no fans, no holes, no anything allowing an airflow. Temps reached 68 degrees in less than 10 minutes, never tried again...
UPDATE: turns out i am a dumbass, core temp is actually 48 degrees on full load prime95 while socket went as high as 60 (open case). Is socket temp supposed to be like that? Board: M5A97 R2.0 EVO
that socket temp is normal.
depending on the chip (my old 4170s socket temp was nearly 20° warmer then the cores) the socket is always a bit warmer. i also think that the asus temperature sensors suck a bit on amd boards, because the socket temp on my old board (crosshair V formula) was very different to the temps i get on my Sabertooth gen3. (69° vs 61° on 1,4volts)
I suppose the number of cores il more relevant than the clock when it comes to socket temps...my gf runs the higher clocked quad-core FX chip on the same board I have getting almost 10 degrees cooler socket temp with closed case....which is quite a difference assuming the thermal sensors may be shitty in the same way across the boards....meh idk, i just want to be sure my chip is not gonna fry because of faulty hardware, i am quite happy with it as of now!