I appreciate the reply. Definitely a lot of things that could have been wrong and definitely a lot of things that could have been my fault. However, after painstakingly trying to figure this out from 11:30 pm to about 5am, it turns out it IS a false reading from the BIOS. Not sure the cause, but...
Update: Downloaded AMD Ryzen Master and it shows CPU temperatures at about 25 Celsius at idle, while corsair link and BIOS show temperatures in high 80s at idle. I assume BIOS is incorrect for some reason?
Is it possible that the temperature reading at the cpu is incorrect? I loaded up battlefield V and it was seeing some pretty high loads. Never really went over about 88 Celsius. I figure if the cooler wasn’t doing it’s job, those temperatures would have skyrocketed.
I just got a Corsair H100i Pro a few weeks ago and installed it in my pc on a ryzen 7 2700x. At 0% load, I'm seeing temperatures around 75 degrees C. I know it is installed properly and I used a liquid metal thermal paste to help with cooling. Before installing it in this pc, I had it in a PC...