How hot should the MOBO DRM's Be?

sisrace said:

madcratebuilder said:

Is it normal for the chipset and Vrm heatsinks beeing hot to the touch?

Temps should be in the 20 to low 30C when lightly loaded. With a heavy load I would like to be no higher then 50-55C. GPU and GPU VRM's can deal with higher temps. Your 8350 should never be allowed higher than 61C. I don't know about the 970 chips but the 990 chip set can have high NB temps, lot of users add a tiny heatsink/fan for added cooling. Some add a 50-80mm fan to the back side of the board to cool cpu and vrm's.
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Why shouldnt i let the 8350 go over 61c?
Also without overclock the Noctua Nh u14s keeps it at no more than 45c at 99% load

Why because the chip will degrade going higher The threshold is only that much due to the TDP being 125W
If it was 95 w or 77 like intel you could take it to higher temps theory here is less TDP Thermal Design Power cooler overclocks Thermal design power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I can feel you insecure and worried about those results.....You've got a very good CPU but an average board that can permit you pushing a little but not enough comparing to your CPU Specs.

I would only recommend you to increase the Airflow in your PC Case before being too worried about Temps.

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

NoN said:

Yes could be...!:)

Also... I have been checking out some stuff on my mobo..
Does the Hypertransport have anything to do with overclocking? becouse this board has 4800MT/s
Does it mean i can overclock my 8350 to 4.8Ghz?
Becouse if then thats REALLY good considering this is a 970 chipset that isnt made for overclocking at all but it does support it. So i used to run my cpu at 4.2 ghz but i removed it when my psu whent bad and i havent set it back to the 4.2Ghz even now when i got a RM650W psu

First of all why did you OC it to 4.2 it does that on stock turbo

In a sense you didn't overclock anything you just maxed out the stock configuration any more and you would of ran into trouble most boards for that chip are 8+2 phase out of the box it's 4 ghz turbo 4.2

Saw that it turboed up to 4.2 so yeah. but it went up to 4.3-4.4 when stressing it while it was oc'd so i dont know what its doing

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

madcratebuilder said:

Temps should be in the 20 to low 30C when lightly loaded. With a heavy load I would like to be no higher then 50-55C. GPU and GPU VRM's can deal with higher temps. Your 8350 should never be allowed higher than 61C. I don't know about the 970 chips but the 990 chip set can have high NB temps, lot of users add a tiny heatsink/fan for added cooling. Some add a 50-80mm fan to the back side of the board to cool cpu and vrm's.
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Why shouldnt i let the 8350 go over 61c?
Also without overclock the Noctua Nh u14s keeps it at no more than 45c at 99% load

Why because the chip will degrade going higher The threshold is only that much due to the TDP being 125W
If it was 95 w or 77 like intel you could take it to higher temps theory here is less TDP Thermal Design Power cooler overclocks Thermal design power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but but.. The thermal threshold of the 8350 is 80c ?

sisrace said:

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

Why shouldnt i let the 8350 go over 61c?
Also without overclock the Noctua Nh u14s keeps it at no more than 45c at 99% load

Why because the chip will degrade going higher The threshold is only that much due to the TDP being 125W
If it was 95 w or 77 like intel you could take it to higher temps theory here is less TDP Thermal Design Power cooler overclocks Thermal design power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but but.. The thermal threshold of the 8350 is 80c ?

incorrect it is 62c max and if above it will result in damage

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

Solarstarshines said:

Why because the chip will degrade going higher The threshold is only that much due to the TDP being 125W
If it was 95 w or 77 like intel you could take it to higher temps theory here is less TDP Thermal Design Power cooler overclocks Thermal design power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but but.. The thermal threshold of the 8350 is 80c ?

incorrect it is 62c max and if above it will result in damage

then coretemp and CPUZ is wrong then.. Good to know :P

sisrace said:

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

but but.. The thermal threshold of the 8350 is 80c ?

incorrect it is 62c max and if above it will result in damage

then coretemp and CPUZ is wrong then.. Good to know :P

With AMD chips it is supposed to be a +10c added to temp from start to finish because it can't be recorded properly because of the architecture

Pretty lame i know it is semi close now but still off about 10c i usually shoot for max temp of 55c so i have room in case ,I wouldn't go over that because that's when you will struggle to keep it in range

Solarstarshines said:

sisrace said:

Solarstarshines said:

incorrect it is 62c max and if above it will result in damage

then coretemp and CPUZ is wrong then.. Good to know :P

With AMD chips it is supposed to be a +10c added to temp from start to finish because it can't be recorded properly because of the architecture

Pretty lame i know it is semi close now but still off about 10c i usually shoot for max temp of 55c so i have room in case ,I wouldn't go over that because that's when you will struggle to keep it in range

But if CPUz and Coretemp says that it has a max temp of 80c isnt that right?
And yeah i know they cant record the temps right but having the cpu at no more than 45c at max temp with the cooler i have is that good? or do i need to change in the bios that instead of the fan going up 0.75% per 1c to 1% or higher?

it says TJ max 90 that isn't true

like i said before the Architecture made it hard to read AMD FX-Series FX-8350 - FD8350FRW8KHK / FD8350FRHKBOX

if you are using a asus board i bet your bottom dollar it will warn you of CPU centegrade if you pass 60c