Hey, so I have a Ryzen 7 5800x with an 240mm AIO this one “ID-COOLING FROSTFLOW X 240 SNOW CPU”

Now I’ve returned a block cooler because I was worried about the temps being too high. So I got this AIO and again the temps were high so I convinced myself I hadn’t seated it correctly. Taken it off and reseated but still runs hotter than I want or would have thought. Disclaimer I over think and this may be one of those times.

So on boot it can get as high as 85 but mainly between 70-80.

Then sat at idle it’ll be 30-40 then random spikes up to 80.

Opening Visual Studio Professional and ramps up again but settles around 50 when coding.

Minecraft on 12 chunks render with optifine, hits 85 on load the. Hangs around 60 whilst playing.

Same for Factorio. But not tested any other games.

Happy to make some recordings if that would help.

Thanks

  • ScampiLover@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To make you less anxious:

    A friend of mine had issues with his (much older) PC, stuttering in games and similar but it still worked

    When I took a look I found it was pegged throttling at 100deg after running for a while. This had been going on for months

    Eventually found the AIO pump had completely died, any cooling was due to passive conduction through the materials and water

    We replaced the cooler and now it’s been running fine for another 3 years and going

    TL:DR: modern CPUs can run hot, and safely boost. As it gets too hot it will start reducing clocks but it’s highly unlikely you damage anything unless you go out of your way to overclock, overvolt or ditch the cooler entirely