Cpu Overheating

[jobisingh]

A few days ago I noticed my cpu was hitting 90+ degrees while playing COD Warzone. I have an i5 8600k with turbo boost at 4.4 ghz, and a cooler master hyper 212 cooler. This is the first game in a while to max my cpu so that's probably white I noticed. I built my pc a couple years ago and didn't originally have any issues with it overheating even at max load. I've tried cleaning the cooler with compressed air and re-applying thermal paste to it with no luck. After about 2-3 minutes of running prime 95 I start hitting 90's, and after a few more it some of the cores peak to over 95 before dropping down to around 88. If I stop the test, my temps go down 60 degrees in about 5-10 seconds. After a few more seconds the idle around 55. All of this is with the front side panel off. Do i need to buy a new cooler or is it something else?

[191x7]

Airflow? Room temperature? Other fans and parts?

[3rrant]

19 minutes ago, jobisingh said:

A few days ago I noticed my cpu was hitting 90+ degrees while playing COD Warzone. I have an i5 8600k with turbo boost at 4.4 ghz, and a cooler master hyper 212 cooler. This is the first game in a while to max my cpu so that's probably white I noticed. I built my pc a couple years ago and didn't originally have any issues with it overheating even at max load. I've tried cleaning the cooler with compressed air and re-applying thermal paste to it with no luck. After about 2-3 minutes of running prime 95 I start hitting 90's, and after a few more it some of the cores peak to over 95 before dropping down to around 88. If I stop the test, my temps go down 60 degrees in about 5-10 seconds. After a few more seconds the idle around 55. All of this is with the front side panel off. Do i need to buy a new cooler or is it something else?

Resolution that you play at and GPU?

It's not worrysome for your CPU to be hot if everything else is fine. It's probably just getting kicked by the frames.

[jobisingh]

9 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Airflow? Room temperature? Other fans and parts?

I have a bottom intake, and a front intake fans. For out takes i have a back and a top. Room temperature is 76. The airflow is not really obstructed by anything since I'm in a large room with the side panel off and facing towards me.

[jobisingh]

1 minute ago, 3rrant said:

Resolution that you play at and GPU?

It's not worrysome for your CPU to be hot if everything else is fine. It's probably just getting kicked by the frames.

I play at 1080p with an rtx 2080 super. My frames were good when I first started playing the game, but for the past few days I've been having low frame drops and lots of crashes and being stuck on loading screens. Most of these issues I've noticed occur when the temps are high. 

[191x7]

3 minutes ago, jobisingh said:

I have a bottom intake, and a front intake fans. For out takes i have a back and a top. Room temperature is 76. The airflow is not really obstructed by anything since I'm in a large room with the side panel off and facing towards me.

Close the side panel. Having it open only discards the effect of the decent airflow you should be having, that results with higher temperatures.

[jobisingh]

2 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

 

Close the side panel. Having it open only discards the effect of the decent airflow you should be having, that results with higher temperatures.

I only took it off after I noticed the high temps. Same issue occurred with it on.

[3rrant]

3 minutes ago, jobisingh said:

I play at 1080p with an rtx 2080 super. My frames were good when I first started playing the game, but for the past few days I've been having low frame drops and lots of crashes and being stuck on loading screens. Most of these issues I've noticed occur when the temps are high. 

Did you do anything different in these days? You might have background processes and such taking up power for your system. Also check your RAM usage, are you capping it or almost?

 

It probably is just that the CPU can't keep up. You could try increasing the graphics settings and make the GPU work harder and see if that lowers your CPU temp as a result since it will have less work to do.

[jobisingh]

Just now, 3rrant said:

Did you do anything different in these days? You might have background processes and such taking up power for your system. Also check your RAM usage, are you capping it or almost?

 

It probably is just that the CPU can't keep up. You could try increasing the graphics settings and make the GPU work harder and see if that lowers your CPU temp as a result since it will have less work to do.

I've done my best to try and see if I've done anything different recently but haven't come up with anything. I have noticed a little bit of strange behaivor on my ram though. I have 32gb rgb trident ram in 4 sticks. I got two different 8 gb kits at two different points in time. My pc seems to like to hover right below using 16gb, at around 15.5-15.8 for a while befor it will be willing to go and use 16gb. I'm not sure if that is an indicator of anything though.

As for my graphics settings, I have them set to max and my gpu usage is usually 90-98%. I would prefer  when doing cpu intensive tasks, that my cpu did not hit super high temperatures and thermal throttle. 

[3rrant]

Just now, jobisingh said:

I've done my best to try and see if I've done anything different recently but haven't come up with anything. I have noticed a little bit of strange behaivor on my ram though. I have 32gb rgb trident ram in 4 sticks. I got two different 8 gb kits at two different points in time. My pc seems to like to hover right below using 16gb, at around 15.5-15.8 for a while befor it will be willing to go and use 16gb. I'm not sure if that is an indicator of anything though.

As for my graphics settings, I have them set to max and my gpu usage is usually 90-98%. I would prefer  when doing cpu intensive tasks, that my cpu did not hit super high temperatures and thermal throttle. 

If the problem is specific to just this application, it might be a software issue. You can try to stress test gpu + cpu for a few minutes. If you have the same behaviour then it's load based, if not.. it's probably a software problem.

 

Try using only the 2 sticks of identical ram you have and swap out the extra two. 32GB really are not usefull for just gaming so you're not supposed to reach 16+ usage. The game will try to allocate what's avaiable to preload assets and reduce loading times and improve performance.

[jobisingh]

1 minute ago, 3rrant said:

If the problem is specific to just this application, it might be a software issue. You can try to stress test gpu + cpu for a few minutes. If you have the same behaviour then it's load based, if not.. it's probably a software problem.

 

Try using only the 2 sticks of identical ram you have and swap out the extra two. 32GB really are not usefull for just gaming so you're not supposed to reach 16+ usage. The game will try to allocate what's avaiable to preload assets and reduce loading times and improve performance.

I've tried stress testing with the same issue, so I know its not the game. I generally like having 32gb of ram cause usually I have like 30+ tabs of chrome open while gaming, as well as other semi-intensive programs. I did test the game with nothing except the game and chrome open with about 4 tabs. The same issue occurred. The game can also be a memory hog and has used over 9gb of ram on several occasions. If you think removing two of the ram sticks could help with my issue I could try it? 

[191x7]

Maybe you have Intel Multicre Enhancment turned on? That overclocks your CPU, all cores to the max turbo...

[jobisingh]

Just now, 191x7 said:

Maybe you have Intel Multicre Enhancment turned on? That overclocks your CPU, all cores to the max turbo...

Yah, I have it set to turbo up to 4.4 ghz. I feel like that is reasonably modest and shouldn't cook it so much.

[191x7]

2 minutes ago, jobisingh said:

Yah, I have it set to turbo up to 4.4 ghz. I feel like that is reasonably modest and shouldn't cook it so much.

Well, you might have felt it wrong. Try disabling. The Hyper 212 is a lot better than the stock cooler, but it isn't a high end air cooler or a 240+ mm watercooler.

[jobisingh]

Just now, 191x7 said:

Well, you might have felt it wrong. Try disabling. The Hyper 212 is a lot better than the stock cooler, but it isn't a high end air cooler or a 240+ mm watercooler.

Sure, I'll try that tomorrow afternoon and report my findings.

[jobisingh]

12 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Well, you might have felt it wrong. Try disabling. The Hyper 212 is a lot better than the stock cooler, but it isn't a high end air cooler or a 240+ mm watercooler.

Yep that was it. With turbo turned off no more overheating. I guess I'll buy a better cooler, thanks for the help!