Question 94c cpu temp while gaming, new PC.

[rlorenzo1]

Last month I bought an HP Omen 30L from Eluktronics.com
Specs are
i7 10700k
32g ram
rtx 3090

It has a "liquid cooling package". So I've been doing some gaming and monitoring my cpu temps with HWINFO. When playing CP2077 my temps reach maximum of 94c and under the column that says Maximum it says Core Thermal Throttling Yes. Even playing a much less demanding game like Chivalry 2 I'm hitting up to 92c.

Now the average temps when gaming according to hwinfo are around 70c but I am quite concerned about the maximums. I spent around 3k$ to get this PC plus a monitor and I'm very worried about these maximum temps while gaming. What is going on here and what can I do to alleviate this issue?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I downloaded it but I dont see any power settings in the program. Theres just some booster thing and a cleaner.

EDIT ok found it. I set my fan settings to turbo

any difference?

 

[atlantis_irl]

I downloaded it but I dont see any power settings in the program. Theres just some booster thing and a cleaner.

EDIT ok found it. I set my fan settings to turbo

There you go! Turbo should at least help, I also replied with some suggestions about how to "jerry rig" a little more out of it. If you have a removeable front or top panel hopefully thats where your AIO is mounted, remove that panel when you are gaming.

 

[rlorenzo1]

Thats a good point, and as others have replied at this point, it looks like you have a bit of a heat box on your hands. I had a little HP prebuilt with only 1 exhaust fan, no intake fan, and just a vent on the side to let the graphics card and air cooled processor attempt to get air. When I played Cyberpunk or wanted to go hard with high refresh Apex Legends I had to lay the PC on its side and take the side panel completely off, reduced temps by at least 10 c. Sorry that you are dealing with that, you probably already mentioned if there was an actual intake fan or somewhere for it to breath if it is installed? Hopefully with your power profiles adjusted it will be a little better? I also had a 120mm AIO on my Alienware Aurora r10. I bought it without a graphics card for cheap last year, it had a r7 5800x and after I dropped a 3060ti in it the thing was throttling left and right and delivering strange stuttery performance in some games. I would say "oh just get another case to move your brand new high end components in to" HP doesn't allow you to do that in most scenarios. Very proprietary design of the motherboards and usually the PSU etc. I hope you can find a way to mount a larger 240mm AIO in there, that should help. If you have a removeable front panel, remove it when doing hard gaming. If you have to try laying the whole system on its side and removing the side panel and letting it run like that, with an AIO probably not the best idea though. I was doing it with stock HP provided air cooler on a r5 3600. The cooler appeared to not even be AMD and possibly a repurposed Intel one. (i saw a video on the same prebuilt where they discovered this application)

After adjusting the fans to turbo I played Chivalry 2 for about an hour and the cpu ran a max high of 86 and the average was 58. Seems like an improvement.

EDIT Also played CP2077 briefly and I set max fps to 60. Max heat as 83 and average of 68. This is looking a lot better at least.

How much would it cost to get a local shop to install another front fan?

 

[atlantis_irl]

Heck yeah, if its not hitting the 90's anymore you can call it a win. With a powerful processor its easy for the AIO to warm up. When I had my Alienware r10 with a R7 5800x it would generally get up in to the mid 80's like that also with its 120 mm AIO. Also i still recommend removing top or side panel if its designed for quick removal. I know that sounds weird but it helped one of my previous systems last year average in the mid 70's while gaming rather than high 80's. Then when you aren't gaming you just pop it back on, I dont know much about your case design though sometimes that easier said than done because you have to take the top panel off to get the front panel off. Do you use MSI Afterburner program? You can use that to redo the fan curve for your 3090, if you keep it cooler that might help also. The fan curve customization is really easy also just a youtube search will give you a quick/easy video. Good luck!

 

[rlorenzo1]

Heck yeah, if its not hitting the 90's anymore you can call it a win. With a powerful processor its easy for the AIO to warm up. When I had my Alienware r10 with a R7 5800x it would generally get up in to the mid 80's like that also with its 120 mm AIO. Also i still recommend removing top or side panel if its designed for quick removal. I know that sounds weird but it helped one of my previous systems last year average in the mid 70's while gaming rather than high 80's. Then when you aren't gaming you just pop it back on, I dont know much about your case design though sometimes that easier said than done because you have to take the top panel off to get the front panel off. Do you use MSI Afterburner program? You can use that to redo the fan curve for your 3090, if you keep it cooler that might help also. The fan curve customization is really easy also just a youtube search will give you a quick/easy video. Good luck!

I do have Afterburner but no clue how to use it. I'll need to check YT. I'll try removing the side panel when gaming. It just pops off.

This whole situation is kinda funny because prior to purchasing the Omen I was gaming on a Acer Predator 300 laptop that's about 4 yrs old. That sucker has gotten up to 98c and would routinely run well over 90 when gaming. But I never had any problems with it performance wise.