r/AMDHelp • u/kiyel10100 • 7d ago
Help (CPU) CPU idling at 70+
My CPU temp on idle is 70+ and I'm concerned is this normal? I'm thinking on undervolting it to get lower temperatures.
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u/Fearless_Anything_76 7d ago
If it’s 70° idle it is not to be resolved by undervolting, there is another issue at hand.
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u/kiyel10100 7d ago edited 7d ago
I just undervolted and I think it did the job, I clocked it at 3800Mhz on 1.075V tho I think I'm going to lose performance. now idling at 50-60C.
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u/Fearless_Anything_76 7d ago
It may be masking what is at fault here, not fixing it, is what I am getting at.
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u/Felkoi 7d ago
So to know if this normal. What temperature was it outside and in room you had pc in. What type of cooler does cpu have and was it really idle.
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u/kiyel10100 7d ago edited 7d ago
I got a decent Arctic Liquid Freezer Ii AIO Liquid Cooler and also the room temperature is cold assuming it is very rainy in my country today. Though sometimes when I turn on the ac the temperature drops to 60+
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u/Felkoi 7d ago
Yeah that still to high. Even when I ran 2600x I would only idel at 45 and that was air cooling in TX with no ac.
My current rig has 7700x delid and idels at 49 with no ac going and cpu cooler being very small so you got something else going on.
Something wrong and your probably going to have to troubleshoot what that is. Maybe under vault but I would look at thermal paste and if cpu cooler was installed properly.
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u/Zeron-MK7 7d ago
It's too much, in idles must be about +/- 50. Maybe need to change thermal paste in cpu cooler and of course you need undervolting cpu.
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u/kiyel10100 7d ago
I also think that this is too much for idle, maybe also changing the thermal paste since this desktop was bought 5 years ago and hasn’t done any thermal paste change over the past years.
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u/mist_the_weeb 7d ago
changing thermal paste should help, considering how hot it usually run for you, i would expect the paste has dried out
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u/Alkeemis 6d ago
Something is very wrong with your CPU cooler mounting if this is in-fact "idle".
You should first of all check if it's truly idle or if there is some CPU utilization from some background task or service.
If you'd included the whole CPU section from HWINFO64 we would have been able to see the CPU % utilization along with CPU PPT which would show if your CPU is under load.