Question Temperature problems

[sotoosorio12]

I have a fixed temperature of 100 degrees when I do a stress test with CPU Z.

I was playing delta force while I had other processes and out of curiosity I opened HW Monitor to know what temperature the PC was at and to my surprise it was at 90-95 degrees, after closing everything I decided to do a stress test on it to check and it gave me 100 degrees.


Notes:
-The thermal paste is only 4 months old
-Yes, remove the plastic that comes on the heatsink.
-The heatsink is in smart use. RPM increases as needed, maxing out at 2000RPM.
-The cabinet has 3 fans to pull air in and one to pull air out.

COMPONENTS:
Motherboard: TUF GAMING B760-PLUS WIFI D4
Processor: i5 12600k
Video card: GTX1650 4GB
Ram: 32gb (2x16) Corsair vengeance pro

Heatsink: Gamma 300
https://gamemaxpc.com/cpu-air-cooler/939.html

 

[Eximo]

That is a fairly small CPU cooler for a 12600k.

Considering it is only at 100W on a 150W TDP processor, I don't think that cooler can keep up. (They claim 180W, but yeah, no)

Just a case of it being a little too weak for the CPU.

Your max power though is set to 241W, which is a bit odd for a locked board and an i5.

 

[uWebb429]

The thermal paste is only 4 months old

Some thermal pastes can fail within a couple of weeks. What did you use and how did you apply it?

I agree with @Eximo
The main problem seems to be a completely inadequate cooler.

 

[Eximo]

The only thing I can think of is that the cooler could be rotated 90 degrees, and that might help.

If the heat pipes are lined up with the CPU die, then only two or three of them are really doing anything. If the CPU and heat pipes were to be misaligned, then all four should cross over the CPU die.

Than again, also making the assumption those are real heat pipes and that the base machining is sufficient.

"Dop Down Cooling" after all. I would love the original text for "Big bowl tangible interesting invisible"

 

[sotoosorio12]

The only thing I can think of is that the cooler could be rotated 90 degrees, and that might help.

If the heat pipes are lined up with the CPU die, then only two or three of them are really doing anything. If the CPU and heat pipes were to be misaligned, then all four should cross over the CPU die.

Than again, also making the assumption those are real heat pipes and that the base machining is sufficient.

"Dop Down Cooling" after all. I would love the original text for "Big bowl tangible interesting invisible"

Some thermal pastes can fail within a couple of weeks. What did you use and how did you apply it?

I agree with @Eximo
The main problem seems to be a completely inadequate cooler.

I had taken into account the heatsink issue. It is not the best and it is quite doubtful. However, you reminded me that a few days ago I changed the position of the heatsink because one of the ram memories was too close to it.

A while ago I opened it and saw that one of the screws was badly attached. I took the opportunity to change the thermal paste, which was certainly very little.
I took everything out and put it back in carefully and checked everything this time.

The temperature in stress tests reached a maximum of 85 degrees. Thanks for the suggestions and help

 

[Eximo]

Hmm, still maxing out at 100W though. As long as the frequencies look good, that should work.

Possible that is a board VRM limit.