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Another cooling related issue I think?
Recently re-built my Ryzen build because my Gigabyte board died on me. This time I have an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F and Ryzen 9 3900X, with a NH-D15 as cooler, using NT-H2 thermal paste.
The way I applied the paste is by putting a dot in the middle (a little less when I put the motherboard in my PC after testbenching -- I put too much on my testbench and it oozed out of the cpu as I mounted the cooler). However even with a single dot, the paste DID spread over the entire IHS perfectly when I took off the cooler.
I tightened the cooler alternating between screws until both screws stopped and I couldn't tighten anymore. On the other build, I didn't tighten the cooler completely and I had reached 90C in AIDA64 and sitting over 75C in Cinebench. However on this build, I reached a max of 81C in AIDA, alternating between 79-81. In Cinebench it's around 71C max, but mostly sitting at 70C.
In gaming, it's sitting between 50-55, in the more CPU heavy games going to 65C.
What I don't get is that my boost clocks are the same. 4.02 GHz on stock.
What am I doing wrong? Why is the CPU not boosting as it should? I see people reaching over 4.2 GHz with PBO on this chip and I'm sitting here reaching 4.02 GHz.
When I apply my manual OC of 4.35 GHz on one CCD and 4.2 GHz on the other CCD, at 1.25V, the temps are better and the scores are higher.
But wht I don't get is why the stock CPU settings don't boost as high.
The only change I made to the CPU cooler fans is setting them to go 1100 RPM max because of the temp spikes on Ryzen making fans ramp up.
Did I mess up the cooler installation or paste installation again? What is the best way to apply NT-H2 to this CPU? I don't get it.
Recently re-built my Ryzen build because my Gigabyte board died on me. This time I have an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F and Ryzen 9 3900X, with a NH-D15 as cooler, using NT-H2 thermal paste.
The way I applied the paste is by putting a dot in the middle (a little less when I put the motherboard in my PC after testbenching -- I put too much on my testbench and it oozed out of the cpu as I mounted the cooler). However even with a single dot, the paste DID spread over the entire IHS perfectly when I took off the cooler.
I tightened the cooler alternating between screws until both screws stopped and I couldn't tighten anymore. On the other build, I didn't tighten the cooler completely and I had reached 90C in AIDA64 and sitting over 75C in Cinebench. However on this build, I reached a max of 81C in AIDA, alternating between 79-81. In Cinebench it's around 71C max, but mostly sitting at 70C.
In gaming, it's sitting between 50-55, in the more CPU heavy games going to 65C.
What I don't get is that my boost clocks are the same. 4.02 GHz on stock.
What am I doing wrong? Why is the CPU not boosting as it should? I see people reaching over 4.2 GHz with PBO on this chip and I'm sitting here reaching 4.02 GHz.
When I apply my manual OC of 4.35 GHz on one CCD and 4.2 GHz on the other CCD, at 1.25V, the temps are better and the scores are higher.
But wht I don't get is why the stock CPU settings don't boost as high.
The only change I made to the CPU cooler fans is setting them to go 1100 RPM max because of the temp spikes on Ryzen making fans ramp up.
Did I mess up the cooler installation or paste installation again? What is the best way to apply NT-H2 to this CPU? I don't get it.