glenalz81

This can happen with budget boards (less layers) and chonky boi coolers. Gravity is the issue here but double check all the motherboard screws are full seated also.

Might be a silly question but have you been using the same Windows USB for the fresh installs?

Did you carry over a previous Windows install?

Try and source an older version of Trixx. The new versions are pretty flakey in my experience.

Your current temps are actually fine but the contact frame should shave off a couple of degrees for not a lot of money.

Do you use a contact frame with your 13600k? If not i'd give one of those a go with some good thermal paste first before stumping up for a new cooler.

I reckon you'll need to go bigger than a 240 aio to get better temps than the Peerless Assassin.

Firstly i would re-paste the card, then use MSI afterbirner for the fan curve and make sure Afterburner is set to run when the PC starts.

£150 for the board and £50 for the CPU is a fair price looking at my local current market value.

A good few of the Enermax coolers are prone to clogging badly. New cooler and you should be fine.

If you didn't do a fresh windows install when you upgraded then that would be the first thing i would do after experiencing these issues.

Enable every core/thread utilization in Riva and i'll bet you see some cores basically pegged to 100% Very few games if any would max 12 threads to be fully saturated.

Given Armoury Crates reputation i wouldn't put it past that software being the problem.

Yeah a 580 should work just fine.

You can only really compare results using the same cpu/ram as yourself. I wouldn't be surprised if the lacking 10% is due to your older platform, plus anything over 60th percentile i would slap straight in to the average performance category. If you have 3Dmark give Firestrike a run, a 4770 and 1660 Super should score around the 12k mark.