Ryzen 2700x Running Hot

I just upgraded my Mobo, CPU and RAM. The Ryzen fans have been surprisingly loud and I'm getting idle temps between 50 and 60 Celsius. Something seems iffy - I keep hearing the fans "swoosh" constantly like they're revving up and down. There's a little bit of a faint clicking sound too occasionally.

Any ideas what's up? I bought an Asus B450-F with the Ryzen and RAM already pre-installed. Could it be a lack of thermal paste? Or something not plugged in properly?

 

The CPU and RAM were already pre-installed? Was it an aborted build / basket case bought from a previous owner?, or did the vendor install it as part of the order? When I get a used motherboard with CPU installed I always take the heat sink off and clean off the old paste and re-apply and re-seat the heatsink so I know it's done well, before I put the computer together only to discover what you've discovered.

I'd pull it apart and clean it with alcohol and make sure it's very clean before re-applying paste, and use a good quality paste sparingly - use good technique, no sense rushing it since it's had a problem once. Make sure the IHS and heatsink are mating well too, and screw down the fasteners in order to get even pressure coverage.

Good luck.

 

It was a brebuilt batch from a vendor, all new stuff. I was wondering about the state of the Thermal Paste actually so may check later. I did a restarted and installed a bunch of new drivers and I'm now sitting at 34-44 degrees Celsius instead after a fresh boot up. Will see how it goes but seems like it may have settled itself.

To be fair, I haven't done a fresh windows install yet either, just replugged in my SSDs. Rookie error but I may rectify that this weekend. Appreciate the thorough answer! Helped confirm some of the stuff I was worried about. First new build in 4/5 years so I'm super rusty

 

Definitely reinstall Windows when changing platforms unless you want degraded performance.

 

Yeah, definitely doing that tonight or tomorrow. My temps are back up to the mid-40s also after 30 mins of browsing the internet so will be checking out the thermal paste situation as well.

 

Is this why my CPU and GPU utilization are so low in DX12 for BFV? Will try to reinstall windows to resolve it.

 

Sounds like a bad thermal paste application on the CPU.
Might also be the same on the GPU.
Do the repaste and do a clean/fresh install of Windows (don't forget to also install latest BIOS/UEFI update for your mobo).

 

A hot CPU can bottleneck a GPU but since there is no spec to your system that is hard to know.

 

I wont deny that a format goes a long way to get a setup running at peak if there are already lingering performance issues... but in this case if the op isn't experiencing any performance problems on the current build & is just looking to change platforms to stay current on a hardware standpoint they shouldn't need a format (especially on win10)... just for the sake of discussion, having correct drivers for the new components on the mobo is obviously ideal though

 

@Vitor711 Update RTSS to latest version from guru3d.com I think you're using 6.x version which was buggy on some AMD platform.

 

I use Scythe Fuma, I recommend it. I can't hear the fans with the case cover on. It doesn't go above 50C while I'm gaming in games like Division 2. I also have negative offset .0875, with PBO enabled.