Overheating/Thermal Shutdown?

[rubyrosethornx]

Hi guys! I'm a little new here so please excuse me if this is to be in a place other than this.

 

These past couple of days I've been having issues of thermal throttling/complete shutdown with my PC. Before I go further, I'll list my specs.

 

Ryzen 7 2700X with Wriath Prism Cooler

RTX 2060 Stormx from PALIT

16GB 3000MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX

WD Blue 500GB M.2

2x 2TB HDD

MSI PRO VDH MAX motherboard.

EVGA 850W Supernova 80+ Gold Fully Modular PSU

Some Aorus RGB case with 1x 120mm intake and 2x 120mm exhaust, positioned on the side and the top respectively.

 

So my issue lately has been this: At idle my CPU usually hits around 50-60C which is weird as it usually used to be around 30-40C. My gaming temps are usually around 70C. However for some games, notably GTA V - it plays for 3/4 minutes and then.. bam. My PC completely shuts down. The shut down is clean - it's just poof and off.

 

I have tried to troubleshoot my issue myself though I really don't know what could be causing it to overheat - that was until I double-checked some bios settings this morning.

 

My CPU core voltage is at 1.448V which seems a little high and would explain the high temps. However if I try to lower this, my PC posts but then will just black screen when Windows should have been loaded. Windows is loaded, as a simple press of the power button does not turn it off - I have to hold the button down for it to do anything.

 

I have a temporary solution and that is to just go into control panel > power option > enable power saving mode. This drops my idle temps all the way down to around 35 and my gaming temps to around 45-50 at max (except in the case where I'm using my oculus quest via oculus link, which for whatever reason auto sets my pc to high performance, causing my temps to shoot to 70+ once again)

 

The downfall of this solution is that it is dropping my CPU to 2.2GHz speed which in some games (Such as GTA V again) causes my FPS to severely drop, sometimes hitting as low as 40FPS. This obviously isn't the experience I want to have since I know my hardware is more than capable of hitting much, much higher FPS than that.

 

My question is, how do I safely reduce the core voltage without it blackscreening my PC? There's three options: Auto (which it is set at), Offset and Override. I'm not very good with bios-level tech which is why I am asking for help.Please someone give guidance and help with what I need to do.

 

I am thinking about getting an AIO cooler to see if this will help the situation as well, though for the moment that might not be completely financially possible so if I can avoid it then that would also be nice.

 

As a last note, some of my parts of this build are almost completely brand new.

My CPU/Cooler + Mobo was purchased in January of this year.

My Case and my PSU were purchased last month.

My Disk drives are a little older.

My RAM was purchased in January as well.

My GPU was purchased in February.

 

With this being the case, I highly doubt that there is something going wrong on the hardware level of things, though I know it's a possibility and if this is the case I need help determining what is going wrong.

 

Thank you so much for reading this and I look forward to all of your help in solving this issue!

[Zmax]

What type of cooling do you have

 

 

Try --CPUID   HWMonitor -- it's system monitoring software, old but it' free

 

I would check if all the fans are working, and look at the CPU paste. For some reason you may not have enough paste, so bad heat transfer.

 

 

[rubyrosethornx]

6 minutes ago, Zmax said:

What type of cooling do you have

 

 

Try --CPUID   HWMonitor -- it's system monitoring software, old but it' free

 

I would check if all the fans are working, and look at the CPU paste. For some reason you may not have enough paste, so bad heat transfer.

 

 

I am using the Wraith Prism RGB cooler thatr comes stock with the Ryzen 7 2700X. I stated this in OP. Case fans I have 3x 120mm, 1 as intake and 2 as exhaust. For thermal paste I have what was applied on the prism cooler itself.