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So to recall, I have 3 options to proceed: delidding and getting more/better air coolers, or water coolers. What is to your believe the best option here?

WIth out checking right now, it is usually between 40° and 50°C iirc

After opening SpeedFan a second time, the fans were showing up. I set it to 100% (1200RPM) just to check if it makes any difference and interestingly it does not matter if the fans spin at maximum RPM or low RPM (around 500ish), the temperatures during cinebench testing are always the same (close to 80°C). This sounds weird to me?

not a stupid question, I checked it before with a paper tissue. It gets sucked in to the heatsink fan, which is the same direction the case fan behind it blows to. i had a custom fan curve set previously however I am not sure if it is currently working since I do not see any fans in SpeedFan right now. Will look into it. Howevery my PC is already kinda loud so maybe I should checked for a more silent air cooler/liquid cooling. I got the CPU in the title of the thread but forgot to put it on the list, sorry, fixed now. One thing I was wondering for quite some time. The PSU is relatively weak for that kind of build, is it possible that the PSU is somehow responsible for high temps or system locks?

Yeah I am a bit scared of delidding, but since my PC crashed multiple times now due to high temps I guess the warranty is gone anyways? Regarding liquid cooling: I read that the "all in one" liquid cooling solutions perform quite poorly and wasn't there a video very recently from LinusTechTips that good air cooler perform just as good or even better than good liquid cooling solutions?

Hi all, first time using this forum to reach out for help, so please tell me (and excuse me) if I do any mistakes. My CPU performs pretty poor imo (868 at cinebench with stock settings) and at the same time runs quite hot (up to 80°C while running cinebench). I tried to OC the CPU (4.8 GHz at 1.35V) which results in a unstable system due to high temps (BSODs and system locks). Running at that 4.8 GHz, I achieved 966 at cinebench with temps peaking up to 97°C. My question is, how can I get these temperature under control, do I have to upgrade my cooling situation, what way would be the most efficient? I checked the installation of my heatsink twice and applied fresh thermal paste (amasan T12 Wärmeleitpaste) without seeing any differences. I had these temp problems through winter with low ambient temperatures and am especially worried since summer is comming and it will get quite warm in my room with that PC running. Specs: Case: BitFenix Raider with 3 pre-installed 120mm fans PSU: be quiet! Straigt Power E9 450W ATX 2.4 Heatsink: Thermalright Macho 120 CPU: i7-7700k Motherboard: Asus Prime Z270-A Intel Z270 So.1151 Dual Channel DDR ATX Retail RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX black DDR4-3000 DIMM CL15 Dual Kit GPU: 8GB Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual OC Active PCIe 3.0 x16 (Retail) Storage: Transcend 480GB SSD, Western Digital WD Green 1TB HDD OS: Windows 10 64bit Quick edit: I attached a picture of my case so you guys can judge the airflow better. There are 2 120mm fans in the bottom right blowing in and 1 120m fan left of the heatsink blowing out. The PSU intakes air from the left and blows it up into the case (I think) Looking forward to your comments

Using an old Steelseries Shift. Im a kinda hardcore WoW player and got the spammy spells on my "E" key which is now after a few years totally destroyed and hardly registeres any input. So i guess it's time for an upgrade. This new mechanical keyboard should just fit nicely on my desk!

I always take my loved ones to bed to cuddle with them. It's kind of a struggle with my large tower, so this tiny thing will help me out.