I bought my 3900x a few months ago. Out of the box I used the stock Prism cooler and I was getting very high temps. I did a lot of research and I decided to turn PBO off in BIOS. This made me not run at 75 degrees at idle, but a more managable 60 degrees. Under loads however, it would get considerably high, up to 95 degrees at some points. I went ahead and tried reseating my cpu cooler multiple times, all with no improvement. So I decided it was finally time to get something better than the stock cooler. I bought a Noctua NH-15. I did a lot of research and decided this was the best one to go for me. Once I got it installed I tried turning PBO back on in BIOS because I figured that my temps were high before because the stock cooler was bad. I was wrong, with PBO on and my new cooler I was getting up to 90 degrees playing some minor games. I went back to BIOS and turned PBO off and I now idle 10 degrees less than what I did with the stock cooler at around 50 degrees. I can play games at high settings with PBO off and stay under 70 degrees comfortably. I just feel like I spent this much money on a chip that takes advantage of PBO and the only way I can use it is with PBO turned off, so its a waste of money. My question is if anyone has a fix. If not, I was planning on possibly doing an RMA because maybe I got a faulty chip I'm not sure. I was also thinking about downgrading to a 3600 or 3700x. I would just like some suggestions to my problem, thanks.
My build:
Ryzen 9 3900x with Noctua NH-D15 Cooler with both fans on
Gigabyte x470 AORUS Ultra Gaming BIOS Version F50
RX 5700XT
My build:
Ryzen 9 3900x with Noctua NH-D15 Cooler with both fans on
Gigabyte x470 AORUS Ultra Gaming BIOS Version F50
RX 5700XT