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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Really feels like Christmas, it's 72 degree outside lol

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Download the graphics driver for your card, on the desktop go into properties and make sure your resolution is set correctly.

Also for the record, I have never let thermal paste sit longer than 10 minutes before booting, and I have never heard of this being practiced before. Interesting concept.

I've also never spread thermal paste. For one, you just don't need to spread it. And 2, if you don't take great care in doing so, you can actually leave bare spots on the cpu. I just use the drop in the middle and let the heat sink spread it for me. Those lines on your cooler where paste was missing is one of 3 things. 1, it got pulled off as you removed the cooler. 2, uneven clamping pressure from the cooler. 3, uneven surface of either the cpu or the cooler.

Thermal paste on the side in excess amounts should be avoided, however it's only an issue with conductive thermal pastes. I haven't used the stuff you are using, so I cannot say if it is conductive. Many these days are not.

It's not conductive, and even it was, it'd still be fine. Any excess is still stuck to the copper cooler bottom. I did spread it fairly evnly and carefully. If I sucked at it, I'll redo it again lol

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

So I'll learn what works and doesn't, no worries as long as I don't fry something.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Download the graphics driver for your card, on the desktop go into properties and make sure your resolution is set correctly.

Also for the record, I have never let thermal paste sit longer than 10 minutes before booting, and I have never heard of this being practiced before. Interesting concept.

I've also never spread thermal paste. For one, you just don't need to spread it. And 2, if you don't take great care in doing so, you can actually leave bare spots on the cpu. I just use the drop in the middle and let the heat sink spread it for me. Those lines on your cooler where paste was missing is one of 3 things. 1, it got pulled off as you removed the cooler. 2, uneven clamping pressure from the cooler. 3, uneven surface of either the cpu or the cooler.

Thermal paste on the side in excess amounts should be avoided, however it's only an issue with conductive thermal pastes. I haven't used the stuff you are using, so I cannot say if it is conductive. Many these days are not.

Well there's a whole program that comes with the drivers that isn't very helpful, honeslty. It's all full of adds and crap.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Ok, she started back up fine. It's literally like 80 degrees in my room so I'm gonna let her run for a while with the AC cranked down some so I can do the temp with old paste vs new paste at a closer room temperature. It's literally 72 degrees outside on the 23rd of December, welcome to florida

 

[LsGuy]

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-5600-series/amd-radeon-rx-5600-series/amd-radeon-rx-5600-xt

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

It's at 41 C at idle, but it's hot in this room, no doubt. Room temp is probably 80

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-5600-series/amd-radeon-rx-5600-series/amd-radeon-rx-5600-xt

I have a 5700 xt

 

[LsGuy]

Sorry thats 5600xt, but should be able to find yours there

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Does running bios take more processing power than just looking at your desktop menu? Because my motherboad bios temps read higher than what my program does when I'm logged into windows, I mean by like 5 degrees C

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

As of now, it does seem to be running at least 2-3 degrees C cooler

 

[LsGuy]

Bios should be a lighter load than desktop. What does ryzen master say the temps are?

 

[LsGuy]

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt

 

[LsGuy]

The reason I suggest using ryzen Master is because the temp probe layouts are different than most cpus in these ryzen ones.

"A new version of Ryzen Master now includes a different temperature readout algorithm that is meant to better represent the “overall” temperature of the die rather than the absolute maximum a sensor reports. AMD says this is a better representation of the temperature of the CPU. Besides averaging across different sensors, it also averages readouts over a small time-window. In my testing the most affected scenarios are idle and low-load scenarios and the new temperature behaviour isn’t nearly as erratic and spiky."

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I called Asus customer support and it's literally like the Dell meme lol. But he couldn't explain why the CPU temp readings were different between the BIOS and Ryzen's application that I run in windows.