As per title, I am idling at about 60-65c in windows at about 8% cpu load, I am using the Noctua d15 with both fans paired with an ASUS Crosshair VIII motherboard.
The only changes I have made in BIOS is to apply a memory frequency of 3600MHz and I also turned on DOCP.
I have also re-seated and reapplied thermal paste (Kryonaut) just in case it was a problem there and it hasn't made a difference.
if I applied high load, the temps don't actually go that high considering, they seem to hover at about 80c, would you consider this to be normal?
The thermal maximum for that processor is 95*C, so yes that's normal, that's just AMD's Turbo function keeping the speeds as high as possible within the thermal envelope.
Yeah, i understand about the load temps, my main concern is about the idle temps being relatively high with a bare minimum of CPU activity.
When the temperature is lower and the activity is spiky, single threaded activity, that's when the Turbo raises the voltage and clocks to their highest levels.
the core voltage was showing as 1.45 in BIOS so i dropped this down to 1.25 in stages and low and behold, my "idle" temps are now sitting at mid 30s with 0-1% utilisation, low 40s with light use, the per core voltage does its own thing as and when it likes, but the gaming load temps are now sitting around 50c ish
use the power saver mode to reduce thermal loads