I just finished my latest build today to find that my AMD FX 6300 quickly climbs to 60c (and above probably I turned it off at 60c) in BIOS, doing nothing. This was on the first start up so no BIOS settings were changed. I tried resetting BIOS and reseating the heatsink (which is what I figured it was, but I've now reseated it 3 times and applied Artic Silver 5 thermal paste with no change what-so-ever). None of this worked... Within 60 seconds of running it will hit 60c. I also noticed that there was a goop coming out of the side of the CPU (I didn't touch it) but it looked like a shinny liquid between the CPU lid and the PCB part of the chip.
So now for my question, is this a defective chip? Is my chip melting?! (never thought I'd ask that heh)
I'm used to building with i7's so I'm used to heat, but I went with the AMD FX 6300 instead of the 8000 series for this build because I didn't want to get an aftermarket cooler or anything like that, this chip is only supposed to be 95 watts so I figured it would not get quite as hot.
Thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it!
Setup:
AMD FX 6300 w/ Stock Cooler
MSI 970A-G46
Corsair CX500M PSU
XFX AMD HD 4650
So now for my question, is this a defective chip? Is my chip melting?! (never thought I'd ask that heh)
I'm used to building with i7's so I'm used to heat, but I went with the AMD FX 6300 instead of the 8000 series for this build because I didn't want to get an aftermarket cooler or anything like that, this chip is only supposed to be 95 watts so I figured it would not get quite as hot.
Thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it!
Setup:
AMD FX 6300 w/ Stock Cooler
MSI 970A-G46
Corsair CX500M PSU
XFX AMD HD 4650