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I would like to thank you all! It was indeed the cooler that broke right after I installed my new CPU. This are my new temps (idle) with the new cooler, a Noctua NH-D15:

Thank you, @fasauceome, for the heads-up! I just ordered a Noctua NH-D15 to see if it's indeed the cooler which is broken, or that I have a CPU ready for RMA. I also have read that the Noctua NH-D15 is a decent cooler for the i9-9900k, even on load and maybe OC. We will see what happens.

Okay, thanks guys! I'll check what I can buy. What do you guys advice? An Air Cooler or a AiO? And to be specific, which one?

Finally, after a long time of saving money I finally got enough to buy an upgrade for my PC; a new motherboard and CPU. Apparently I could reuse my AiO Corsair H100i v2 cooler and my RAM (Corsair 3200Mhz 2x8), so I did. I bought a i9-9900K unlocked and a Gigabyte Z390 Gaming SLI, applied new Thermal Paste (thermal grizzly kryonaut) and installed the cooler. Everything worked OOTB (Out of the Box), new manual installation of drivers or a bios update wasn’t necessary. (The motherboard came with F4 by default) but one thing caught my eye. The temperatures were (are) extremely high, near 90 degrees Celsius in bios and between 80-90 degrees in a clean installation of Windows on idle. I know now that the i9-9900K is a ‘hot’ CPU (figuratively and literally) but this is just extreme. Too extreme in my eyes. Before I upgraded to the new mobo and CPU, everything was fine. My i7-6700k was running not as hot (of course) as my new CPU. What I tried to lower the temps of the new PC config: - Updating the bios to F7 (with ‘official’ 9th gen CPU support) = This resulted in even higher temps on default settings. - Reverting the bios to the OOTB situation by ‘updating’ it to F4 with optimised settings = Nothing changed. - Smart Fan 5 settings in Full speed in bios = Nothing changed. Sometimes the temps were even higher. - Reapplying thermal paste and cooler = a drop of 30 degrees was seen in the first 2 minutes, after that it went back to mid 80s. - AiO cooler on full speed = Nothing changed. I’m starting to get a bit desperate, if I’m honest. I’ve saved such a long time for this upgrade and now I don’t even dare to use it... Is there anyone who might know what’s going on? Am I doing something wrong? (I’ve attached a screenshot of the temps in idle)

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