Hi all. I built my new pc around June of last year. Upon completion, I had high temp issues which was shortly fixed (or so I thought) when I reapplied thermal paste reseated my AIO. I definitely saw my temps go down, but any overclock attempt would shoot them back up to 90° or blue screen. It’s been about a year since I have tried to overclock the CPU. With the release of Halo Infinite, I found myself to be dropping frames after around 3 or so hours due to thermal throttling 90-99°. I have reseated my AIO about 3 times and reapplied AS5 thermal paste. I am running 3200mhz XMP with my cpu core voltage at 1.252v(which I guess it stock/auto??). I’m currently looking at 46-50° in BIOS, with an average idle temp of 45-55° which jumps in the 60s while I am surfing the internet. I do not typically play demanding games (Valorant for eg.) though I get around 70s-high 80s when I’m playing these non demanding games. A lot of the times I feel as if I should be running things better, as for Halo for example, (since it’s fresh in my mind) I’m only getting around 110 FPS on Medium settings with a 2080S. I have moved all of my case fans and the whole radiator around to assure that I have proper air flow, though to be honest I don’t have a good idea of how to achieve this. Right now I have my 280mm AIO in front with two intakes, one intake on front-top of case, two exhaust back-top of case, and one exhaust through the rear. Switching fans around made a negligible difference, if any at all. I have also tried setting different fan curves, but my knowledge is minimal. Pump seems to work as well, at least I think?? It sounds like It works and feels like it works. I would love to be able to overclock my CPU… but first I would love to be comfortable with my temps and not see such high numbers when I’m playing either graphically demanding games, or even lower spec games. To add, just ran Prime 95 and reached 98° before I hit the 10 minute mark.
I’m sorry for the dogshit formatting. It’s 8am and I haven’t slept. Also doesn’t help that I’m typing on the smallest text box in the world right now.
I’m truly lost right now, guys. Any help would be much appreciated. I’m at the end of the road with my troubleshooting lol.
Specs
9900k
NZXT 710i
Corsair H115i 280mm
32GB @ 3200
I’m sorry for the dogshit formatting. It’s 8am and I haven’t slept. Also doesn’t help that I’m typing on the smallest text box in the world right now.
I’m truly lost right now, guys. Any help would be much appreciated. I’m at the end of the road with my troubleshooting lol.
Specs
9900k
NZXT 710i
Corsair H115i 280mm
32GB @ 3200