Ryzen 3600 Steel Legends Heat Issues...
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Topic: Ryzen 3600 Steel Legends Heat Issues...
Posted By: lightman
Subject: Ryzen 3600 Steel Legends Heat Issues...
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2020 at 4:08pm
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Hi there, I have a B450M Steel Legends with the 2.90 BIOS. When using my 2600, my temps are good and everything works. However, when I install my new 3600, my temps are very high 45 - 50 at idle, and around 82C in Cinebench. I have tried two different 3600 CPUs, applied the required thermal paste (Noctua and MX)...even updated temporarily to the very latest BIOS, but still I have the same issues. For reference, I am using a Noctua 12S cooler, with everything placed in a Be Quiet 600 Base case with two fans. For monitoring, I have used Ryzen Master and HWINFO64. Could you please help? I really don't want to go back to intel, but the heat issues on the 3600 are tempting me. Thanks |
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Posted By: nolive721
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2020 at 5:40pm
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If I can advise, you should check your voltages when running at idle/Cinebench and the way you set them either in the BIOS or in Ryzen Master.I have played with a 3600X CPU recently and temps were high out of the box because of the stock (high) voltage the board was applying to the CPU. I had it idling at around 42-43degC and Cinebech R15 running at peak 77-78degC but after manually setting voltage I had reduced these temps by a good 5 to 6degC ------------- 3500X 4.4Ghz at 1.25V B550M Steel legend; 16GB CORSAIR LPX-3200 C16 running at 3333Mhz; 248GB NVME; VEGA 64 LC GPU OC 1700Mhz core 1150Mhz VRAM |
Posted By: lightman
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2020 at 6:26pm
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If I do this...won't I be stuck at one speed? Regards |
Posted By: ThreeDee
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 11:33am
..maybe just go back to intel, lol  or you can read this thread: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ryzen-5-3600-running-super-hot-what-to-try.3506954/ You can also update your BIOS to 3.30 ------------- |Ryzen 5 5900|ASRock X570 Taichi-BIOS 4.60|2x16GB HyperX Predator RGB 3200@3600 1:1 IF|ASRock RX 6700XT|2 x PCIe 4.0 M.2 Drives for OS & Games|850 WTT Seasonic 80+ Titanium PSU|Noctua NH-D15| |
Posted By: nolive721
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2020 at 2:14pm
No if you OC through Ryzen Master like I do. By doing so, when you use either AMD or Windows power plan, it would either downclock/reduce voltages and put some cores to sleep so you are not at Full speed 100% of the time ------------- 3500X 4.4Ghz at 1.25V B550M Steel legend; 16GB CORSAIR LPX-3200 C16 running at 3333Mhz; 248GB NVME; VEGA 64 LC GPU OC 1700Mhz core 1150Mhz VRAM |
lightman wrote: