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
AMD’s current strat is to maximum the power of the cpu, pushing it to the thermal limit of 95c and attempting to use every last ounce of power it can.
I mitigate this, since I don’t think running that hot constantly is a good idea, by limiting the voltage to about 1.2v in Ryzen Master. Doesn’t impact performance, but keeps the temps down to around 60 when under strain.
According to AMD, it’s perfectly fine to run at up to 95c, though.
Yeah this seems to be what is happening but I haven’t noted the voltage. I’ll do this tomorrow and try and limit it. I don’t want OC and just want cool temps.