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Yeah I have had it for two and a half years so it might be some thermal paste issue. Also yes I have a 75fps limit under nvidia control panel but I was playing two games that won't hit that with ray tracing on and it's saying power was not a limit so I'm just confused.

Hello I have an RTX 2070 Super FE. I used EVGA Precision X1 to crank the power limit up to 110% and gpu temp limit to 85. Now the highest total GPU power I've ever seen it draw according to HWiNFO is 220 watts. I would expect that since it's a 215W TDP. However last night I cranked up all my fans and cranked up my GPU power limit and thermal throttle temperature wise. However when playing games (Shadow of the Tomb Raider max settings 1080p except AA which is at SMAA 2TX or something like that along with max quality ray traced shadows and no DLSS because I'm using the last version released before Epic Games nonsense was put into it and thus DLSS would be the cruddy 1.x version so no thank you.) and Amid Evil max settings and ray tracing 1080p but in that game I did turn on DLSS Quality mode because it's the 2.3.9 version. The highest my wattage usage got was 190 a full 30 watts less than before. Usually if I want to use my speakers or work on college related things I turn my gpu power down to 58 with a thermal throttle limit of 63 and leave the case fan and cpu cooler settings in my BIOS to silent and to keep the heat down. I am just perplexed why my GPU isn't using the full power anymore. Power Supply going bad? GPU slowly dying? Messed up settings in my BIOS? Attached is a pic of what HWiNFO listed right after playing Amid Evil. Hope that's enough information. Thank you all very much for your help!

I've also noticed that the lowest voltage they'll get to now is 1.106V. They used to go down to 1.075V or something like that prior to this and even down as low as 0.200V sometimes. So now I am even more puzzled. https://imgur.com/gallery/2aJfhzh

I have a 3600x on an Asus tuf wifi x570. I have the latest 3001 Bios from two weeks ago and the newest amd chipset drivers from October. Prior to yesterday my cores would enter deep sleep just fine and my c6 residency was always up there. According to HWINFO prior to this my cpu package power wattage would get as low as 13.5 watts. However since even before the Bios and chipset update I get 24.8 watts at the lowest. I tried installing AI Suite III 3.00.69 for the fan control and I think this is what messed it up. I uninstalled and blocked all the asus services from starting up and I'm not sure. Plus the lowest idle temps even with everything closed is about 40 degrees. I used to get down to about 34. C-6 residency and package residency is constantly at 0%. C0 and C1 work alright but never hits c-6! So I updated my bios and chipset drivers and no change. However my temperatures have evened out on the tctl/tdie which I am more than happy about. Before it would cool off 1.5 to 2 degrees celsius every second for like five seconds and then ramp up about 10 degrees celsius. Rinse and repeat. Anyways still no change. Did AI Suite III ruin something? Is there something I need to disable? I'm using sz balanced Ryzen v4 for power plan, all the settings my bios had (no cool/quiet or global c-states but everything else is set according to the preferred settings of that plan's website download page), all bios settings on Auto except for D.O.C.P. which is set the 3200mhz cl 16-18-18-39 32gb 2x16. Every other option in bios is on "auto". What can I do? Thank you very much!

I'm just going to deal with it as is. I'm not putting a backplate on the computer unless I need to upgrade. Next time I get a computer I'm going to have someone assemble it for me. Honestly I know I get a little paranoid and freaked out over stuff easily because I think I'm going to break something I spent a decent amount on but I have to realize computers aren't that fragile. I got to just chill with this.

I must have been looking up nvme drives when I wrote that I never had to remove or upgrade an nvme drive yet. I can't believe I didn't catch that. Stupid me. Anyways: I don't want to cut too much performance I want the best multi-core and single threaded I can get because I do a wide variety of things on my desktop. Yeah I'm not going to undervolt as that will cut single threaded performance. Any other tips? I'm willing to do modded bios, power plans, chipset drivers, etc. Those are all up to date though.

I'm running all fans at silent setting in the bios. So the prism is running between 800 rpm at lowest and 2200 rpm at highest. Could I undervolt without losing performance and actually maybe both drop temps and increase boost clocks? If so how would I go about doing that?

I have a 3600x with an asus tuf x570 wi fi mobo and a mattrexx 50 case. Anyways I had a spare never used wraith prism cooler with the stock paste still and used that instead of the wraith spire. Temperatures dropped and it was working pretty good. However I had to get into my computer and change my nvme drive so I had to remove the heatsink and in doing so I used 99% rubbing alcohol to completely clean the thermal paste off of the prism and cpu. I ordered two small 1 gram tubes of kryonaut and just put it on tonight. However the temperatures are higher than they were with the stock paste. I used up the whole tube doing the paste three times. I spread it at first, wiped it off then tried the x method, wiped that off then did the line method. All three times I did this my temps were higher than before. Cinebench r15 would never go above 77 celsius even during five multi core tests in a row. Immediately it jumps to about 83 celsius now. Also my max boost all core clock on everything stock/auto would boost to 4.1 ghz all core prior to this with the fan switch on high now i get 4.03 at best with full speed high setting cpu cooler fan and by the time the benchmark is over I am around 3.97 ghz. I used to get in the 1620's (1629 was the best I ever got) if I had the prism set to high and full speed in bios and even with silent bios and low setting on the prism I'd get between 1595 and 1605 so about 1600 on average. Now I'm getting that with high speed prism and full fan speed and 1550's! when I'm on low prism fan speed and silent fan bios. What am I doing wrong? Could I have gotten a bit of the old stock thermal compound under the lid in the area where the i/o die and chiplet is on the cpu and could that affect the heat? Did I put the paste on wrong? I'm so fed up I just ordered a new wraith prism on ebay to see if that will help and if not then I might just order another 3600x or even just plain 3600. This is crap. Also when I was cleaning the thermal paste off I think I may have had some get inbetween the small gap between the IHS and the top of the cpu. Could some of that thermal paste have gotten onto the IO Die or chiplet and be effecting that? If so is there a way I can remove that without delidding?

That makes sense now that I think about it.

Well I'll try two front and two on top. Trying out two fans on the top as long as temperatures don't go high won't do any damage to my computer right so it might as well not hurt to try it while I've got the five fans and if there's no difference or an even worse difference I'll send them back and get two better 140mm fans.

Thank you for the help but from the forums I've asked this question on most people said do three front intake and use the other two as top exhaust. Now, should I only get front fans then? Because if so I'm going to send these back and just get two better/higher quality/higher airflow/higher static pressure/etc. fans for intake.

Haven't gotten my new cpu cooler yet but I got the fans. I installed two 140mm fans as exhaust on the top of the case but it didn't make a difference! In fact my cpu is acting just like it did and my gpu is actually idling at 31 to 33 now when it used to idle at 27 to 29. Also I couldn't install my front case fans because I just cannot remove the front case. I looked up two videos and seen that they put the glass part back on after installing the fans. Is there a way I can get longer screws or something and mount them from the reverse side? Or if I can't should I send back the fans and just get two higher quality 140mm case fans with more airflow, static pressure, etc. And just make the fan closer to the front an intake and leave the one closer to the rear as an exhaust fan? Thank you very much. I should probably look up how to undervolt my cpu because just running steam and chrome goes up to the low 80s temp wise.

I have no front intake fans yet. Using these arctic 140mm pwm value case fans. Using an nf-a12x25 pwm for rear exhaust.

Haven't gotten my new cpu cooler yet but I got the fans. I installed two 140mm fans as exhaust on the top of the case but it didn't make a difference! In fact my cpu is acting just like it did and my gpu is actually idling at 31 to 33 now when it used to idle at 27 to 29.Also I couldn't install my front case fans because I just cannot remove the front case. I looked up two videos and seen that they put the glass part back on after installing the fans. Is there a way I can get longer screws or something and mount them from the reverse side? Or if I can't should I send back the fans and just get two higher quality 140mm case fans with more airflow, static pressure, etc. And just make the fan closer to the front an intake and leave the one closer to the rear as an exhaust fan?Thank you very much. I should probably look up how to undervolt my cpu because just running steam and chrome goes up to the low 80s temp wise.

Ok Here's what I've ordered. https://imgur.com/a/VLNs79r orders.bmp