- Sep 13, 2023
- 5
- 0
- 10
Hello everyone,
I searched around and couldn't find any previous issue reported quite like mine.
Recently purchased a new RTX 4080 and an Arctic AIO Liquid Cooler, had them installed on a new Cooler Master HAF 700 case because my previous AIO cooler and GPU got damaged (glass of coke got dumped on my old case's top ventilation grid and it got on the inside of both). I fixed and cleaned both as much as I could, and it worked perfectly fine for months. However, I changed these 2 parts as I wanted a new GPU and I was getting some annoying high temperatures on some games and I attributed that to my old AIO and case.
Fast forward to getting everything put in place and installed, I turned on my PC and my fans start spinning like they're gonna take off orbit. I wait a bit until it loads to see if it calms down but it keeps going at peak speeds. I go to open MSI Afterburner to check temps and I'm completely shocked. All temps look perfectly normal expect for CPU which is at a whooping 95 C, which is insane, and this is at idle without me opening a single app.
Opened task manager, CPU usage is at 10%, nothing abnormal. I open Chrome and some games to test and the temp goes even higher, I even got a blue screen error for CPU temp once. While testing, I randomly decide to open Steam and try to start Baldur's Gate 3, and my PC suddenly goes deadly quiet. I go and check the temperatures, and lo and behold it's now down to 35 C. Once again I'm speechless so I go ahead and close the game, close Steam and close every single other app I have opened to see if the temps go back up to crazy and no, they go even lower into the 20's.
I checked and all the fans are spinning as they should. Checked thermal paste, even spread it a little bit more as it wasn't covering all corners. This issue happens every single time I restart now, and every single time I can fix it by starting BG3. I haven't tried with other Steam games but this is weird enough on it's own.
Obviously I don't think it's the game that's "fixing" my issue but there must be some weird software interaction that's causing this but I have absolutely no clue what it could be.
My specs:
CPU: i9-12900KF
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080
MB: Asus PRIME Z690-P D4
32GB RAM
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 cooler
Can anyone help me try to make sense of this?
TL;DR: Extremely high temperatures while idle during startup and while browsing and using some games, but it instantly goes down to normal and stays down after starting a specific Steam game: Baldur's Gate 3.
I searched around and couldn't find any previous issue reported quite like mine.
Recently purchased a new RTX 4080 and an Arctic AIO Liquid Cooler, had them installed on a new Cooler Master HAF 700 case because my previous AIO cooler and GPU got damaged (glass of coke got dumped on my old case's top ventilation grid and it got on the inside of both). I fixed and cleaned both as much as I could, and it worked perfectly fine for months. However, I changed these 2 parts as I wanted a new GPU and I was getting some annoying high temperatures on some games and I attributed that to my old AIO and case.
Fast forward to getting everything put in place and installed, I turned on my PC and my fans start spinning like they're gonna take off orbit. I wait a bit until it loads to see if it calms down but it keeps going at peak speeds. I go to open MSI Afterburner to check temps and I'm completely shocked. All temps look perfectly normal expect for CPU which is at a whooping 95 C, which is insane, and this is at idle without me opening a single app.
Opened task manager, CPU usage is at 10%, nothing abnormal. I open Chrome and some games to test and the temp goes even higher, I even got a blue screen error for CPU temp once. While testing, I randomly decide to open Steam and try to start Baldur's Gate 3, and my PC suddenly goes deadly quiet. I go and check the temperatures, and lo and behold it's now down to 35 C. Once again I'm speechless so I go ahead and close the game, close Steam and close every single other app I have opened to see if the temps go back up to crazy and no, they go even lower into the 20's.
I checked and all the fans are spinning as they should. Checked thermal paste, even spread it a little bit more as it wasn't covering all corners. This issue happens every single time I restart now, and every single time I can fix it by starting BG3. I haven't tried with other Steam games but this is weird enough on it's own.
Obviously I don't think it's the game that's "fixing" my issue but there must be some weird software interaction that's causing this but I have absolutely no clue what it could be.
My specs:
CPU: i9-12900KF
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080
MB: Asus PRIME Z690-P D4
32GB RAM
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 cooler
Can anyone help me try to make sense of this?
TL;DR: Extremely high temperatures while idle during startup and while browsing and using some games, but it instantly goes down to normal and stays down after starting a specific Steam game: Baldur's Gate 3.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram