i7 8700K Cooling Problem

[MitchellBailey1999]

I have recently bought a Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler and I’m having issues cooling my CPU when playing one specific game, that game being Rainbow Six Siege, On every other game I am happy with the temps I am achieving but on siege my CPU still heats up well into the mid 90s. I have troubleshooted various things and I am lost for a solution. Is there anything I can do which might help me reduce my temps in Rainbow Six Siege.
Motherboard: MSI CARBON PRO GAMING Z370
CPU: i7 8700K @3.7GHz
CPU Cooler: Dark Rock Pro 4
GPU: MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8GB
RAM: 16GB DDR4 2133MHz Corsair Vengeance
SSD: 500GB 850 SAMSUNG EVO
HDD: 2TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda
PSU: 550W EVGA GOLD

 

[jay32267]

I'd open the case when it's running hot and see if that gets you anything. If it does, I'd increase the case cooling....if it doesn't I'd start looking at the CPU cooler mount and the paste and the fan speed etc.

 

[lumineZ]

sounds like you have gotten a bad thermal chip.
Read this and pay attention to section 9.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1800828/intel-temperature-guide.html

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Which other games are those? Have you tried reinstalling the cooler? If the cold plate of the cooler is not flush with the ihs of the cpu, even if it is by 0.5mm, there will be thermal spikes.

Monitored the fan speed of the cooler in gaming session? That might also provide you some valuable info.

 

[MitchellBailey1999]

@Lucky_SLS The games include Witcher 3, Skyrim (With Mods), F1 2017, Forza Motorsport 7, Ark Survival Evolved and my fan speeds are also at 100% including my case fans

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Wow, that's strange. Witcher 3 is more demanding than 6 siege.

Have you tried 6 siege with reduced graphics settings? Also monitor cpu usage in the gaming sessions. I don't really think the game spikes ur cpu usage. It's a good idea to monitor the resources during those spikes.

 

[MitchellBailey1999]

@Lucky_SLS Six Siege is pretty much at the lowest preset apart from shadows and the cpu usage is always 80%+ and usually in the 90s

 

[mdd1963]

Let's first confirm we are not mixing up CPU usage with cpu temps...

High usage will be common, especially at 1080P with a good GPU...

Temps...

Is your sink/fan good for up to 130-150 watt TDP at full load? If not you might try downclocking to a fixed 4.0 GHz on all cores until you get an adequate cooler...; alternatively, as many motherboards come with MCE enabled by default, you might disable it, which will stop all 4 cores from turboing as high as 4.7 GHz....

See if your case will accommodate a 168 mm tall Noctua NH-D15.....

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ he has a dark rock pro 4 which is in league with NH D15.

@OP sry for the late reply. Cpu usage for that game can't be more than 30-40%. Are you saying 6 siege alone takes 80-90% cpu usage? U don't have any other softwares like obs to stream the game or game related softwares running? U can monitor which apps use how much cpu usage. That's what I was asking.

Anyway, if your game is using 80-90%, u can try reinstalling the game. Also if I am right in assuming that it's a steam game, u can see in the launch options what dx version it's using. U can try changing it to the latest version. I forgot the code for the launch option, but Google will give that to you.

 

[MitchellBailey1999]

@Lucky_SLS Six Siege is a Uplay game at least in my case (It can be played from both Uplay and steam). It's using DX11 and reinstalling is something I have tried multiple times before and it has always run super high in terms of CPU usage and CPU temps after the reinstalls. It's also worth noting that I have had this problem on two different CPU the previous CPU being an i7 6700. Also after fiddling with overclock settings I have managed to get it to settle in the low 80s which I think is the best I'm going to get without spending a lot on liquid cooling.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

I think I have found the problem :

https://rainbow6.ubisoft.com/siege/en-us/news/152-324640-16/100-cpu-usage