Happens while playing games and I think it's my CPU overheating.

Ryzen 1600 @ stock with stock cooler on max
ASRock 450M steel legend
Xcaliber 4000 MHz ram clocked at 3200
750w power supply

Computer was working find for a month and now it's overheating.... Brand new a month ago.

All fans are spinning
CPU fan 1 max performance
Tried opening cAse and putting a box fan in window

Only way I can make it work is if I go into settings on my power management and undervolt it to 80 percent and I don't want it to lose its lifespan

Undervolting the CPU should not shorten it's lifespan. In fact, it's one of the first things I do with a CPU. I try to get the lowest CPU voltage I can, and still remain stable in stress tests.

May want to consider a 3rd party cooler, or maybe better or better applied thermal compound.




/e There's a video in my profile for how thermal compound spreads.

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 19 2019 07:51pm

looks like this pc has bad breath, reapply tooth paste

Paste looked fine and was installed right

Well, usually stock coolers are not very good at cooling, but AMD's are supposed to be better.
Things like case airflow, room temps, etc., all add to CPU temps.

Motherboard looks OK (heatsinks etc.). You are pretty much left with redo the thermal compound or consider a 3rd party cooler.

I can assure you that undervolting a CPU will NOT shorten it's lifespan. It may become unstable in stress tests, but that's true of just about any component that's undervolted too far.

My FX-8350 has been running fine at 1.275 Vcore for going on 7 years now. 24/7 ops.

well then are you sure its not running at 1.475 in bios? lol
When i built my 1600 whenever i set to auto it would jump back to 1.475 for no fucking reason

Just bought aio, I would buy new CPU and Mobo too but they don't make any good matx for 3700x and I love my case

Yes I'm sure

Now I got an error saying we are grabbing some information and restarting uugh

This post was edited by M4A4 on Aug 19 2019 08:10pm

I'm assuming your case? won't take an ATX motherboard?

No, I built micro because I like small

This post was edited by M4A4 on Aug 19 2019 08:14pm