Question 100 % CPU usage and high CPU temps

[RadioMatic]

HI there...

While gaming (mainly Battlefield V), my CPU is running at 100 percent usage with high temps at 95 to 100 degrees C. What could or should I do to bring it down? Specs are below. Thanks for any help you can give me!



Liquid Cooled Intel Core i7-9700K (8-Core, 3.60 GHz, 9th Gen)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Z390
Intel Core i7 9th Gen
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Video Memory8 GB
32 Gigs of DDR 4 DDR4 2400
Storage
SSD 960 GB HDD3 TBHDD InterfaceSATA III
HDD RPM7200rpm

 

[rgd1101]

latest bios? latest chipset?
malware scan?
what the gpu usage?

 

[jon96789]

What cooler are you using?

 

[RadioMatic]

Looks like there are eight bios updates available.
https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z390 Pro4/index.asp#BIOS

Doesn't appear to be a chipset update available.
I do malware scans once a week and just ran it again. Didn't find anything.
The GPU usage on BFV is 75 to 80 percent. Black Ops 4 barely registers on the GPU...Maybe 5 percent. Black Ops 4 uses around 90 percent of the CPU but the temperatures are around 80 to 85C during play.

As for the cooler, it's a cybertron stock. CLX Quench 120 Closed Liquid Cooler.

Thanks!

 

[rgd1101]

if the cpu temp is constantly high. redo the thermal paste

 

[Unolocogringo]

Good thermal paste will probably net you a few degrees difference.
Your biggest problem is a 120mm AIO for a 9700k in a prebuilt Cybertron computer.
What exact model Cybertron is it.
Then we can make suggestions once we know which case it has for fans ,placement, clearances etc....

 

[RadioMatic]

I will get the spec list and get back to you. Lost it. Here's a link to the Newegg site. It doesn't list cooling on it. I pieced that together from Cybertron's site. I'm still waiting for confirmation from them on the cooler. It might be 240. I'll check out the thermal paste, too. The rig is barely 6 months old. Thanks for the help, guys. I appreciate it.

https://www.newegg.com/p/3D5-000B-00024?Item=9SIABFS86B4821

I should mention that the CPU cores idle right around 30c. Only rises while gaming.

 

[mdd1963]

Is the radiator a little small one?

Check your temps when you first bring up system and start gaming, before the fluid has a chance to get too warm....

You might be suffering from thermal runaway if using a pretty smallish radiator, where increasingly warmer fluid over time under load cools the CPU less, leading to warmer fluid...which cools even less, etc...

BF1 and BF5 are not torture tests, but, they are also pretty CPU intensive, giving the same approx temps as Prime95/blended or CPU-Z/cpu stress, at least on my 7700K. With your very good GPU, the CPU will deliver the highest frame rates it can, leading to warmer temps than that of a mid-range GPU, for instance.... (I'd not worry about CPU usage, and would expect it to be high, so not an issue as long as no stuttering/hitches.)