PC Processors

[jb221]

My processor seems to be stuck in a loop. I'm watching the temps reported from my motherboard and it drops to about 47C and then spikes up to 60, drops to 47 over about 10 seconds and then jumps back up to 60, forever. The only program I have running is the hardware monitor. I've installed the latest chipset from MSI, I've tried enabling the "AMD Ryzen Balanced" and I have yet to see temps drop below 46C EVER. I've tried setting my minimum CPU to 1% and no change. Why are my temps/CPU usage spiking like clockwork? I've heard others saying their idle temp on the stock cooler can drop into the 30-40C range, but mine seems to be unable to reach these levels.

Should I be concerned? What could be causing it to endlessly go through this cycle? It was doing this when all I had installed was windows and drivers so it doesn't seem to be a rogue program.

[fyrel]

Use Ryzen master to monitor temperatures.

What you are seeing is an individual core spiking in temperature as windows cycles through the cores doing background tasks. Nothing at all to worry about.

Minimum temperature is going to depend mostly on ambient temperature and case airflow.

If your case airflow is sufficient then your minimum temperatures will be around 15C above ambient temperature.

The Ryzen 3000 chips throttle at 95C and run with a target temperature of 75C.

Anything below 95C is ok, anything under 75C while under load is excellent.