Hey, so I have a Ryzen 7 5800x with an 240mm AIO this one “ID-COOLING FROSTFLOW X 240 SNOW CPU”

Now I’ve returned a block cooler because I was worried about the temps being too high. So I got this AIO and again the temps were high so I convinced myself I hadn’t seated it correctly. Taken it off and reseated but still runs hotter than I want or would have thought. Disclaimer I over think and this may be one of those times.

So on boot it can get as high as 85 but mainly between 70-80.

Then sat at idle it’ll be 30-40 then random spikes up to 80.

Opening Visual Studio Professional and ramps up again but settles around 50 when coding.

Minecraft on 12 chunks render with optifine, hits 85 on load the. Hangs around 60 whilst playing.

Same for Factorio. But not tested any other games.

Happy to make some recordings if that would help.

Thanks

  • ScampiLover@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I honestly wouldn’t worry about it, especially with the weather as it is at the moment- my PC is getting about the same with a 3900x, nice noctua cooler and loads of airflow It’s been going over 30 in my office and even the best coolers can’t break that physics

    Check again when it cools down, might make it easier to see if/where there are issues

    • FredericChopin_@feddit.ukOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for the response.

      I will bare in mind the current weather, but I can’t not worry, I’m not built like that.

      After the other persons comment I do believe that it’s being OC’d by default. Im just not home to test it out. But I’m sure I recall the frequency being above 4ghz and the 5800x is rated for 3.8ghz standard. So I’ll see what the temps are saying once I check that.

      I guess I’m just anxious about the contact with the cooler, and like I say I tend to overthink certain things. It usually passes, then I’ll be thinking about the impact of increased anxiety on life expectancy lol

      • ScampiLover@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        To make you less anxious:

        A friend of mine had issues with his (much older) PC, stuttering in games and similar but it still worked

        When I took a look I found it was pegged throttling at 100deg after running for a while. This had been going on for months

        Eventually found the AIO pump had completely died, any cooling was due to passive conduction through the materials and water

        We replaced the cooler and now it’s been running fine for another 3 years and going

        TL:DR: modern CPUs can run hot, and safely boost. As it gets too hot it will start reducing clocks but it’s highly unlikely you damage anything unless you go out of your way to overclock, overvolt or ditch the cooler entirely