I feel my 3700X is too hot..

[Dizz_Man]

Here's the setup. O11 air with 8 fans installed (2 side 2 front 2 bottom 2 top all 120mm), 3700X stock prism cooler with stock paste on an x570 Taichi

My room is at a reasonable temperature, 22C to 25C

When idle my CPU is around 50C to 60C, it's temp curve recorded by MSI AB is in small spikes, the line is never really flat, just spikes

My CPU has reached up to 4.4GHz boost on its own (assuming it's a quick single core spike) as well as quick voltage spikes up to 1.5V, recorded in HWMonitor

 

While playing a pretty modern game, CoD MW, my CPU sits around 70C up to as much as 86C and the fan ramps up hard.

When doing a benchmark such as Time Spy normal, during the CPU test my 3700X reached a toasty 91C and assuming it thermal throttled because the clocks dropped and it didn't go any hotter.

 

Is this a BIOS issue? thermal paste issue? cooler mount issue? Or do I just need to go buy a 240 AIO?

 

FYI, Ryzen Master refuses to install correctly, I keep getting an error message after every clean install of it

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, Dizz_Man said:

Is this a BIOS issue? thermal paste issue? cooler mount issue? Or do I just need to go buy a 240 AIO?

For one, you don't mention how those fans are configured: which ones are intakes, which ones are exhausts? Secondly, you could always use better thermal paste and yes, you could use an AIO, or you could just get a better air-cooler.

[CPUguy101]

This is completely normal these chips push themselves under any type of load to try and get the highest turbo speeds. This is a 7nm chip the chiplet is the size of a finger nail it gets hot when it gets pushed to 1.47V on light loads. 

 

 

Edit 3700X owner with a H150i i also get 55-60C during gaming and up to 65-70C with PBO on during gaming. Encoding videos it reaches 88C with PBO and 78-80C without PBO. 

 

Idle it stays around 30-38C and browsing the web and doing normal things it will stay around 40-50C

[CPUguy101]

If you are really worried about temps you can try a static voltage of 1.2V at 4.0Ghz and leave it their until you get a newer cooler. 

 

Make sure PBO is off and that your LLC or load line calibration  settings are at the lowest setting(which could be 1 or 10 or 5 depending on the board) 

[Xplo1t]

Seems awfully high.  My 3970x idles in the low 30C in a 22C room and spikes around 60C when all cores are being pushed.

[CPUguy101]

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[Dizz_Man]

5 minutes ago, Xplo1t said:

Seems awfully high.  My 3970x idles in the low 30C in a 22C room and spikes around 60C when all cores are being pushed.

Okay, but you have a full custom loop, I'm just running stock box cooler which is the wraith prism.

Also doesn't TR have multiple dies under the MASSIVE heat spreader, while consumer Ryzen chips have 1 single little concentrated heat source? 

[CPUguy101]

Not sure man seems high to me i'm running on a dual 360 rad 

[Bitter]

Try running a negative voltage offset and lowering the LLC, slightly different CPU here but doing that with my 2700X I got the TDP down to around 180-185W and the all core voltage down to around 1.3V with single core loads spiking to around 1.4V under brief loads. I'm seeing temps with my Wraith Prism around 90-93C at the tctl sensor in HWinfo and getting the normal 4.3ghz single cores and 4ghz all cores speeds running hard stuff like Prime95 small FFT

[asand1]

Everyone seems to have the same temps and it seems to be within spec. That said, my 3600x with hyper 212 idles and loads cooler.