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I upgraded to this system a couple of months ago and the temps have been bothering me ever since. I keep looking at benchmarks online and the temp values that most people are getting don't match mine at all. First of all, here's the relevant specs: Be Quiet! Silent Base 802 Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X Intel 12700k Noctua DH15 ASUS RTX 3080 TUF OC Corsair RM750x First, for the case, it has the standard fan configuration that it came with. 2x PURE WINGS 2 in the front, pulling air in, and one in the back, pulling air out. For the CPU thermal paste, I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. Before you say this, yes, I am sure that I mounted the cooler correctly and I am also sure that the thermal paste was applied properly. I tested the Arctic MX-4 and Noctua NT H-2 paste as well, with not much difference. My ambient room temperature right now, in the summer months sits at around 23-24 degrees. For the CPU, due to the very high temps (reaching 95 degrees+ in benchmarks) I had to lock its performance cores to 4.8 GHz. Sadly, this motherboard is pretty weird when it comes to Vcore so the most I was able to do was add a -0.100 offset. On my previous rig, the Asus motherboard allowed me to use adaptive vcore which was really nice, but Gigabyte doesn't seem to offer this option (or if they do, it's extremly confusing and I can't figure it out). Idle temps are also very weird, jumping around between 40-50 constantly. Right now, I'm sitting at around 55 degrees. Here's my temps with Cinnebench R23 running and the fans at full blast: Now I know that synthetic workloads cannot compare with real world usage. Truth be told, I never saw temperatures this high while gaming or doing productivity work, however, most results I see online have the 12700k sitting at a comfortable 60-70 maximum range, and I'm sure that they didn't cripple their performance by lowering the clock speeds. In modern games, the CPU goes to 70-80 almost constantly. It even happens on older games for some reason. Lately, I've resorted to simply crippling the CPU further via Intel XTU by limiting the TDP to the lowest ammount possible where the game is not heavily impacted. As for the GPU, things are a little bit better, but not great either. I had to cripple its performance as well a little bit by undervolting, to maintain some decent temps. Here's the GPU running Furmark at 4k. GPU temp in itself is fine, but memory junction and hotspot temps seem a little bit too high for me: During gaming sessions, the memory junction temp can go to 95 degrees. As you can imagine, having both the CPU and GPU this toasy makes my room very hot almost instantly, which in turn, makes the temps even worse. I've been having the exact same room / desk configuration for the past couple of years. My previous systems had no issues like this. Previously, I was rocking a 1080 with a 8700K and I barely heard my fans. Am I just expecting the temps to be too low? Is this the new norm with the newer hardware? If so..this seems insane to me. I was thinking of getting some additional Arctic P14 fans to fill up all the available fan spots in the case, but from what I've seen, the difference that these can make is very low (2-3 degrees at best). I've also been thinking about upgrading to a 360 AIO, but I would really want this to be the last resort, since I don't want water in my system. In terms of air cooling, Noctua DH15 is as good as you can get. Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I tried putting it back. It didnt't work. It said that there's no compatible disk, then I formated the optane drive. Am I totally screwed? How can I recover the data?

Yesterday I got a Samsung EVO 970 and I played around with it for some bit. A while later, I wanted to change the M2 slot so I swapped it with my Intel Optane, which I used to boost a 2TB HDD (not my primary drive). A couple of minutes later I realised that the drive was gone, and Optane was now showing up in Disk Management. I tried creating a partition from it (which was probably extremly stupid) and then, reinstalling the software, but I kept getting the same message (No compatible disk). I even tried reinstalling Windows, but to no avail. My 2TB drive is no longer accesible. I'm thinking that this happend because I took out the Optane module and put it into another M2 slot. I tried putting it back where it was before, but I guess I did it too late, because earlier I created a partition from the module. I have an option in my BIOS to Reset to Non-Optane (my mobo is a Z370-H) but it also says that my 2TB drive is detected as 1 of the 2 disks paired (the other being Optane) and that if I reset it, all data will be lost. Unfortunately I cannot do that, as I have a ton of work files on that drive. I tried Hiren's CD but no software from there works. Nothing detects the HDD anymore, besides the BIOS. If I go through with the Reset to Non-Optane from the BIOS, will I be able to recover my data or am I completely screwed? Thank you!

I currently have a GTX 760 and it's not keeping up with the latest games. I guess it's time to upgrade