Ryzen 3600 Thermal Issues with Dark Rock 4

[jctappel67]

My CPU is reaching temps of 86 C (with a steady 75C) under load with the BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4, which is way too high for such a beefy CPU cooler. I think it might be because I ran out of thermal paste when I reassembled the computer (had to RMA motherboard). 

 

Do you think it's because of too little thermal paste? Any other thoughts or suggestions?

[Enderman]

Get new thermal paste and remount and reapply.

[LogicalDrm]

Depending on the load and couple other things, but i don't think that unreasonable. Reading on other threads as 3rd gen Ryzen can be bit iffy if you leave stock settings on.

[Demonic Donut]

How is your case ventilation? What fans and fan speeds are you running?

 

I'd look into manually setting voltages. I'm stable at 4.3ghz all core at 1.3V and if I leave it at auto (PBO) I see voltages up to 1.4V at 4.1-4.2 GHz. Max temps are 68C with a 21C room with my 4.3 OC. Noctua D15 cooler which is very similar in performance to yours.

 

Your temps are safe, but a bit high imo.

[jctappel67]

20 minutes ago, Demonic Donut said:

How is your case ventilation? What fans and fan speeds are you running?

 

I'd look into manually setting voltages. I'm stable at 4.3ghz all core at 1.3V and if I leave it at auto (PBO) I see voltages up to 1.4V at 4.1-4.2 GHz. Max temps are 68C with a 21C room with my 4.3 OC. Noctua D15 cooler which is very similar in performance to yours.

 

Your temps are safe, but a bit high imo.

I'm using a Cooler Master MB500 with 3x LL120 fans and 2x ML120 (OG style) fans. The LL120s are running the stock fan curve. 

 

I have the ML120s fan curve based on the CPU temps, and at 75C they go up to 2400 rpm which is really loud, so I had to manually change the fan curve. 

Running stock with PBO, and it does like to get up above 1.4V. 

 

Just got in a TG Carbonaut thermal pad, so I'll see how temps go with that

[Demonic Donut]

35 minutes ago, jctappel67 said:

I'm using a Cooler Master MB500 with 3x LL120 fans and 2x ML120 (OG style) fans. The LL120s are running the stock fan curve. 

 

I have the ML120s fan curve based on the CPU temps, and at 75C they go up to 2400 rpm which is really loud, so I had to manually change the fan curve. 

Running stock with PBO, and it does like to get up above 1.4V. 

 

Just got in a TG Carbonaut thermal pad, so I'll see how temps go with that

Why did you go with a thermal pad instead of paste? I haven't heard great things about them...

[jctappel67]

3 hours ago, Demonic Donut said:

Why did you go with a thermal pad instead of paste? I haven't heard great things about them...

I haven't heard anything negative about Carbonaut from Thermal Grizzly.

 

So far, I just did a Cinebench R20 that ran throughn it twice, temps never exceeded 71 C with my custom fan curve. Right now I've got it running FAH, a steady 73 C, at 4 GHz all cores from PBO, 1.3Vish. With the GPU also folding, and kicking off loads of its own heat. 

 

So far I'm happy. Will let it run for a bit, and might set the fan curve to the stock quiet fan curve later. 

 

Edit: Just had it fold for over 2 hours. Maximum temperature was 77 C. I am happy with that, since FAH seems to be a special kind of torture for CPUs...