Question i5-13600KF has high temps under heavy load ?

[ropefly]

HI

Just made a new build and everything is going well but my CPU sometimes hovers around 75-80 degrees with spikes upto 95, even tho it's only <1 second it does spike that high. Is this normal/damaging in the long run ?

My setup:
Mobo: B760m Aorus elite AX
CPU: i5-13600KF
GPU: Radeon RX 6950 XT
Case: be quiet! Pure Base 500 windowed midi-tower
RAM: Kingston 32GB DDR5 x2

Fans/cooler:
1x 140 mm Pure Wings 2 at the back and 2x 140 mm Pure Wings 2 in the front
cpu kooler: PA 120 chroma SE, I heard nothing but good reviews / info about this cooler so maybe it's an airflow problem?

idle temps vs under heavy load(lost ark + ld player):

Temps - no clue why I can't add images directly


Additional info:
- I do have a widescreen 1440p monitor + 2 regular monitors so when playing intensive games on ultra the GPU also hovers around 80 degrees with the hotspot around 100
- My case is under my desk, so it's fairly open not in an enclosed space, only the right side is close to my deskcabins
- bios etc is default I only enabled the XMP setting to reach my ram speed

Anything I could do to lower the temps ?

 

[TerryLaze]

Throttle temps are at 100 that can be manually adjusted up to 115 on some boards and 130 is the shut off temp.
Having less than 1 sec spikes to 95 is nothing.

But if you want to you can go into bios and have a look at the short term power draw (PL2) and reduce that a bit so it won't boost that high.
Edit: although you show a max of 140w out of the 180w that is default.

 

[ropefly]

Throttle temps are at 100 that can be manually adjusted up to 115 on some boards and 130 is the shut off temp.
Having less than 1 sec spikes to 95 is nothing.

But if you want to you can go into bios and have a look at the short term power draw (PL2) and reduce that a bit so it won't boost that high.
Edit: although you show a max of 140w out of the 180w that is default.

So I'm kinda worry'ing for nothing? 80 degrees on bot the cpu + gpu won't really effect my lifespan ? I thought 80 was like too high.

the 140 out of 180w, I'm pretty clueless regarding everything showing on the HWMonitor

 

[Nighthawk117]

Anything I could do to lower the temps ?

1) Turn up the fan speed on your cooler.
2) Upgrade to a more powerful cooler.
3) Undervolt the CPU.

All these modern chips are really hot though, 80C is not as bad as it sounds, 95C spikes is a little high but actually quite common.

 

[geofelt]

You are good.
An Intel engineer said that if you are not running at 100c, on 13th gen, you are leaving performance on the table.
Here is an interesting video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFgswzTvyc

 

[uWebb429]

@ropefly
At default settings, many motherboards set the CPU voltage higher than necessary. No one can predict how much voltage a CPU might need 10 years from now so Intel tends to error on the side of too much voltage so they can guarantee long term stability.

If you want significantly better temperatures today, learn how to undervolt. A 13600K can run up to 15°C to 20°C cooler during a full load Cinebench R23 test by simply reducing the excess voltage.

Use HWiNFO. See what it reports for VCore voltage during a full load Cinebench stability test. Ignore the VID voltage that HWMonitor is reporting. Some users are running these CPUs 100% stable with an undervolt of -100 mV. Intel CPUs are engineered to run reliably up to 100°C but there is no reason to do that if you do not have to.

 

[ropefly]

Thanks for all the replies! Will check out how to undervolt and for now I can safely continue gaming without being worried