[SOLVED] New Cooler, New Problems.

[SubGTX]

Hello everyone, I bought the Cooler Master MA410M off of Amazon. The thing that attracted me to it was the pretty lights, sold me on it. Anyway me and my dad spent two hours installing it. Turned on the PC, booted to the OS, and I started playing Destiny 2 with HWMonitor running in the background so I can monitor the temps. Played it for about a hour and a half. Exited the game and and checked the temps, the CPU read 210F with my over clock and MB read 176F.

My question is do you guys know if I missed anything or did I install it right?

Thank you.

 

[Karadjgne]

The only thing you missed was changing from °F to °C as that's considered universal temp.

As is, 210°F is 99°C, 176°F is 80°C.

I can't remember the last time I saw a motherboard temp at 80°C.

What cpu? What OC?

 

[SubGTX]

CPU is a 9900K with a 1600MHz OC

 

[Karadjgne]

That MA410M isn't nearly enough for a 9900k, even at stock settings. Stock will be a maximum of 5.0GHz for a single core, additional cores will pull it down to 4.7GHz all core turbo.

PL1 (power limit 1) is basically the same as TDP, 95w, but for the 1st 56 seconds, the cpu is at PL2 which is upto 210w. Depending on the motherboard and any performance modes, that 210w can be almost indefinite.

The MA410M is a 160w cooler at best, meaning even when put on top of a i7-7700k, it sees temps of 70°C above ambient, or close to 90°C under a full load.

That cooler is built for the 9600k, not a 9900k. For that cpu and aircooling you need to be looking at Noctua NH-D15 or beQuiet Dark Rock Pro4, the biggest coolers around, or a 280mm AIO (good one) at a minimum.

You have such high temps because you chose form over function, when that cpu demands the opposite. Sorry.

 

[Dean0919]

Yeah, I also didn't know numbers in F, but as Karadjgne said, if 210°F is 99°C & 176°F is 80°C , then those are horrible temps and first thing you need to do is to downclock your CPU back to factory speed. Next step would be to get better cooler (stick with air cooler). It's not easy to tame that beast with 5.0GHz. You need beast cooler as well. Once, you get better cooler, you can try overlock it and see how it goes, but to be honest that CPU is already a monster even without overclocking. If you're not competing in overclocking and benchmarking or not doing some CPU intensive work, you don't even need to overlock it.

 

[SubGTX]

Thanks guys for the replies, I'll look at the Noctua cooler.

 

[Karadjgne]

Look at your case first. You'll absolutely need 1 dimension above all others and that's cpu cooler clearance height. Coolers like the NH-D15 use 140mm fans, plus the height of the heatpipes, plus some ram clearance, so they are not exactly short. There's more than a few cases simply mm short of being able to close the outer panel with those big coolers.

You should do some research into what fits, what other coolers ppl with your case have used, what's been successful with that cpu in that case etc. If your case is too slim to fit anything decently sized, something like a beQuiet DarkRock TF (downdraft type) or Noctua NH-C14 are options.