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I believe the stock cooler that came with my CPU was the Wraith Stealth. It's certainly functional, but I may look into upgrading to a newer cooler given the other responses here

Some technical support person at AMD after I submitted a support request regarding my high temps

Thanks for the reply and glad to know it looks like I'm in the clear. Based on what I saw online, it seemed pretty normal for Ryzen 5 3600s to run at 80C+ while gaming, so I was surprised to hear that AMD considered those temps unsafe

Yeah, I had no idea that even just removing the cooler to readjust required a re-application of thermal paste, so I am amazed I didn't have issues earlier and am so thankful I didn't totally wreck my computer

About a week ago, I was playing Elder Scrolls Online when my computer started stuttering and ended up shutting down. When I booted up the computer again, I popped into the BIOS and it said the CPU temp was 85C. I installed monitoring software and noticed my CPU temp was climbing up above 70C...