[SOLVED] CPU driving me insane

Aug 16, 2021
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Alienware R11 with I9 10900KF with liquid cooling and all that
I noticed temp jump all the time even when barely anything is running. Say I play an undemanding game (genshin impact in this case) and it would go to 80c and then i randomly launch a browser and it would jump to 90c and up and fans would go crazy (balanced profile, etc). I did stress tests with cs agents who fed me crap about it being normal and then because I didnt believe them I went to intel directly and they downloaded 2 diagnostic tools of their own that gave the following information. Intel agent told me that this below indicates that the CPU is defective but the test has passed, so what gives? Also I ran the other test below it and it also said passed so now I am really confused.

Alienware reps are clueless and saying as long as its not hitting throttling I am fine. Intel reps said its defective based on the below. Tests say its fine despite all of the error messages. I say its not fine as the temperature fluctuations are insane and cap for the most trivial of reasons (i.e. launching a browser while playing an undemanding game). The utilization is around 30 percent max when this happens and with liquid cooling, I feel this is a total dud and should be replaced

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If by liquid cooling you mean AIO, 120 mm or even some 240 mm AIO are worse than air cooling solutions. In addition to that Intel CPUs have 100 degree t junction. If you never hit 100 you will not thermal throttle.
Interesting, My Dell (same company) on or about the 7th of August I came into my office and found the system shutdown first time ever from a "Thermal Event" , and since that day they have replaced every piece of hardware and still idle at 60+ Celcius and just opening a browser goes right to the max 100 c so something is going on I have found many other users with Dell and Alienware systems. My config is quite different but the symptoms are the same.

Replace in the last two weeks

Motherboard
CPU I7 10700
Heatsink and Fan
M.2 nvme
Power Supply
and a
Windows install

still no joy

My System
Dell Precision 3640
I7 10700
WD750 1 TB M/2 Nvme
Samsung 860 1 TB SSD SATA Drive
16 GB 3200 DELL Ram
64 GB Kingston 2999
Gigabyte 1050 ti Low Profile GPU
3- 24 Inch Monitors
1- 2 TB External Seagate SATA Storage Drive

They are sending me a NEW replacement but who knows when.........
 
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If by liquid cooling you mean AIO, 120 mm or even some 240 mm AIO are worse than air cooling solutions. In addition to that Intel CPUs have 100 degree t junction. If you never hit 100 you will not thermal throttle.
 
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