Question Upgraded to a Ryzen 9800X3D and wondering about these temperatures ?

[poodude28]

Hello, I recently got a 9800X3D and was wondering if this was normal, expected, or at the very least able to be safely ignored.

I have very good temperatures during normal gaming (even MSFS 2024 on nearly max settings in an intensive city stays in 60s-70s celcius), but if there's a shader compilation or sometimes loading screens, the temperatures go into the 90s.

 

[Lutfij]

What are you cooling the processor with? What is the make and model of your case? Make, model and number of fans in your case and their orientation? Ambient room air temps? If you're on an ASRock motherboard, might want to make sure you're on the latest BIOS version for said branded motherboard.

 

[JayGau]

Looks ok to me for a stock 9800x3d. Shader compilation can definitely make the chip going to 90+c. I have even seen a 95c spike during Hogwarts Legacy shader compilation and I have one of the best AIO coolers.

For CPU intensive games low 60 is also normal, although even at stock I don't think I have ever seen 70 (during gaming) but I guess it depends on the cooler. The chip runs cold during gaming because it's so fast and the extra cache helps keeping the load pretty low.

If you want to improve the temperature without losing performance you can set a -10 or -15 offset on all cores in the curve optimizer options. Made my temp going significantly lower and even after overclocking with a +100 MHz PBO boost it still runs much colder than stock. I rarely see 60 in games and some games barely reach 50.