Hello, so I recently built 7 identical computers for my business, and one of them seems to be having a bit of an issue with cooling after 6 months of standard use.
The CPU reports temperatures between 95 and 100c on all cores even simply running clean windows. When doing anything remotely cpu-related, the system will stutter and freeze horribly, but never bluescreen. (I assume some sort of performance throttling)
Convinced it was the low-profile cooler or its fan (even though all other builds were fine with it), I replaced it with a closed loop water cooling system to test. Same thing, over 95c on all cores. I'm pretty sure it's not the cooler or its installation, but if it isn't then what can it be? Could it be the motherboard socket thermal sensor malfunctioning and prematurely throttling the CPU?
Thank you for any help. I'd like sme insight before going with a full motherboard swap.
CPU: i7-9700k
Cooler: NH-L9I (Swapped to H60)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B360M DS3H
The CPU reports temperatures between 95 and 100c on all cores even simply running clean windows. When doing anything remotely cpu-related, the system will stutter and freeze horribly, but never bluescreen. (I assume some sort of performance throttling)
Convinced it was the low-profile cooler or its fan (even though all other builds were fine with it), I replaced it with a closed loop water cooling system to test. Same thing, over 95c on all cores. I'm pretty sure it's not the cooler or its installation, but if it isn't then what can it be? Could it be the motherboard socket thermal sensor malfunctioning and prematurely throttling the CPU?
Thank you for any help. I'd like sme insight before going with a full motherboard swap.
CPU: i7-9700k
Cooler: NH-L9I (Swapped to H60)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B360M DS3H