Question Ryzen 5 2600 + NZXT Kraken M22 Cooling questions

[PartTimeJerk]

I have a Ryzen 5 2600 installed with a NZXT Kraken M22 120mm Cooler in my rig. I have 3 exhaust 120s on the ceiling of my case blowing straight up and out, 1 120 Intake at the bottom blowing in with the fan and radiator for the cooler on the side blowing out.
It has been a looooooong time since I had built a computer or even looked at parts. I'm running about 45c-50c on my CPU while I am running my games. When it sits at idle it's running around 40c. Is there something I am doing wrong here? I thought a cooler was supposed to help keep the CPU cooled...

Right now just typing this message I am looking at 42c with my graphics card at 53c.

Any help would be amazing. Thank you.

 

[Eximo]

Why do you think those temperatures are high? Quite low really.

Room temperature is 20C, do you expect electronics to stay that cool with power running through them?

Imagine an old fashioned 60W light bulb, and say there are about four of them in a box. Which is a typical mid-range consumer PCs power consumption. How hot would that box get?

The purpose of electric device cooling is to spread heat out and dissipate that heat. The heatsink takes the heat the component is generating and spreads it over an area and exchanges heat with the air. In the case of a water cooler, first step is to heat the water, pump it to the radiator, and cool it back down before sending it off to the CPU again. If warm air isn't coming out of the computer, then you should be concerned.

Typical max GPU temperature is 95-105C, typical CPU max temperature is 100C. Both with throttle before reaching that point.

 

[PartTimeJerk]

Wow, okay. First i'm just not familiar with how hot these things can take it. So excuse my slight ignorance in the fact.

Second, that is a very good insight. I appreciate it. I work on cars so I understand how the water/heat displacement works. one of the reasons why I bought a cooler lol. (plus i just read everywhere that a lot of gaming pcs have them. So eh, why not?)

I didn't know that the CPU could go up to 100c. Does it have performance issues at that point?

I also found some settings for my Graphics card. I brought that down to 35c no problem.

 

[Eximo]

Yes, 100C is a maximum point, it is not something to achieve. CPUs also have a boost mechanic where they will run as fast as possible, when they heat up they will back down to some equilibrium point. If they reach a critical temperature too quickly, they will automatically shut down (Usually a complete cooling failure, or someone turning on a computer without a heatsink installed)

Typically, you want to keep CPUs under 80C, and GPUs under 90C. These days, Nvidia tends towards an 83C throttle point. Not sure about AMD GPUs.

There should be no need to modify the temperature settings on the GPU. All the late model cards will operate as fast as they are able up to around 85C, look up GPU boost, before they will back off and start up either the fans or reduce the clock speed a little. You can underclock them to produce less heat, but that isn't really the idea behind them, you want them to get warm, that means they are going as fast as possible.

 

[ikomukic]

I have a Ryzen 5 2600 installed with a NZXT Kraken M22 120mm Cooler in my rig. I have 3 exhaust 120s on the ceiling of my case blowing straight up and out, 1 120 Intake at the bottom blowing in with the fan and radiator for the cooler on the side blowing out.
It has been a looooooong time since I had built a computer or even looked at parts. I'm running about 45c-50c on my CPU while I am running my games. When it sits at idle it's running around 40c. Is there something I am doing wrong here? I thought a cooler was supposed to help keep the CPU cooled...

Right now just typing this message I am looking at 42c with my graphics card at 53c.

Any help would be amazing. Thank you.

Can you tell me how loud is it? I also have a ryzen 2600 and im planning on getting a kraken m22. Thanks in advance.