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Not sure why noone said it, but turn off unnecessary and running services. There could be many. Remove unused apps especially if running in the background. Check what kind of stuff running at startup. And do a scan, there maybe some malware or virus operating. These are the main things you can do unless temps are the issue.

Only the fan setup changes and no throttle before or after. TBH you need to understand bit of physics before you can understand my question. I could try to explain the question in simpler terms though if you wonder what it is about.

The only way for the case to not get increasingly higher temps under load is to dissipate the heat into the room. It still dissipates at the same rate as the CPU heat output, hence why it tops at 85c.

After I overhauled cooling, there's a drop from 85's to 65's for CPU and 75 to 65 for GPU. And considerable drop in case ambient temp as well. I don't know if its placebo, but after getting my PC to cool better, I noticed that it makes the area around and also the room warmer. The question is, there wasn't any throttling at all before. So there's same heat energy in the case. How is it seemingly warming the room more?

Ah that one site which is filled by passive aggressiveness and where random comments get downvoted for no reason? I know how that "community" will fix this. Random subreddits will go private as a protest and come back online a week later.

There a lot of variables. Quality and application of paste, how good is it mounted, ambient temp, case temp, case airflow etc. If customer environment were exactly the same as testing environment of manufacturers, maybe.

Even when you block ads, you listen to in-video sponsors of "creators". YT is making billions of dollars a year. They also track user data and sell it. They also get about 30% of all superchats and those paid comments and memberships. They also use YT as a giant lead generation platform for their ads by Google. Back in the day websites got way too greedy with ad placements. That resulted in adblockers. YT just wants more profit. When you bend over for premium, just like how they killed whatever you subbed to, they can and will also increase premium price arbitrarily since they THINK we have no alternative.

We need bit more info but such stuff generally indicates RAM. Try try both sticks seperately.

Kind of like how Apple was forced to switch to USB-C standard. Quite sure someone said "ThEiR pHoNeS tHeIr sOcKeTz" way back when.

"tHeIr oS tHeIr rUlEs" It doesn't even remotely work like that.

Check temps after it boots to desktop

Or should I be looking at GPU VID? If so what is making the difference?

Way too high idle temps on water. You probably didn't install it correctly.

Check for brackets, retention bars etc. in the box

Doesn't look bad enough to have caused such bad temps. Make sure you remove the sticker at the bottom of the cooler, and make sure you used correct brackets etc. I don't know that specific cooler & CPU combination but your issue is in the mounting of the cooler. (Unless CPU has a massive hardware issue which is unlikely)

Too little thermal paste, not removing the sticker at the bottom, not tightening the screws enough for better contact etc.

Bad cooler mount most likely.

What you wrote as the title doesn't make much sense since GPU's don't just start pulling their max wattage at boot.

Same temps on idle? If so then give it a clean and new paste.

Can't be 5 years. That CPU was out mid 2019. Most likely it's the CPU. Try static OC'ing (It's called OC but not really) to 3.8 to 4.0 and set the voltage equal or lower than 1.2v in BIOS, find a stable combination and see if crashes persist.

So you mean once it boots, it's fine, but you're just having problems when booting? Try disabling ERP in BIOS.

Put the laptop away and use the monitor for a bit. Touch to check if that part gets hot/warm. If it does, it's caused by monitor's internal electronics.

Use smaller cushions or don't push them in too deep

Is it?

If you leave it as is, it will stay there for the next 20 years. Nothing is going to fall off.