Are these normal temps for Folding@Home?

[Apollo190]

It takes just a few minutes for cpu to reach 95-100C degrees range on "medium" power. As soon as I click on stop folding it drops back to ~50C instantly. The gpu seems fine at ~65C, but I'm really not comfortable leaving my cpu at 95+ degrees overnight. I'm folding with i9-10900k and rtx 3080, and my cpu cooler is dark rock pro 4 (with kryonaut paste). CPU is set to run at 4.9GHz on all cores constantly (under load) and voltage is set on auto (Vcore is 1.323V-1.341V when folding, and power ~193W). LLC is set on auto, and "Power-saving & Performance Mode" is on auto as well. ASUS MultiCore Enhancement is set to "Enabled-remove all limits" and AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset is on auto too. So, are these temps expected? Should I stop cpu folding completely, or tweak some folding/bios settings? Or could it be bad paste/heatsink mount?

[boggy77]

cpu folding is insignificant compared to gpu folding. so dial down the number of cores used for cpu folding to control temperature, allow your system to still be usable and allow for the gpu folding to be properly processed. i'd only use 4-6 core for cpu folding and leave the others free

[Apollo190]

2 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

cpu folding is insignificant compared to gpu folding. so dial down the number of cores used for cpu folding to control temperature, allow your system to still be usable and allow for the gpu folding to be properly processed. i'd only use 4-6 core for cpu folding and leave the others free

I tried that too, I set the cpu folding at 8 threads (so 4 cores right?) and it still reached more than 95C on some cores

[Guest]

Just don't CPU fold, it's not worth it in your case.

[Gorgon]

On 11/8/2020 at 12:41 PM, Apollo190 said:

It takes just a few minutes for cpu to reach 95-100C degrees range on "medium" power. As soon as I click on stop folding it drops back to ~50C instantly. The gpu seems fine at ~65C, but I'm really not comfortable leaving my cpu at 95+ degrees overnight. I'm folding with i9-10900k and rtx 3080, and my cpu cooler is dark rock pro 4 (with kryonaut paste). CPU is set to run at 4.9GHz on all cores constantly (under load) and voltage is set on auto (Vcore is 1.323V-1.341V when folding, and power ~193W). LLC is set on auto, and "Power-saving & Performance Mode" is on auto as well. ASUS MultiCore Enhancement is set to "Enabled-remove all limits" and AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset is on auto too. So, are these temps expected? Should I stop cpu folding completely, or tweak some folding/bios settings? Or could it be bad paste/heatsink mount?

Try AVX Offset -2. It is the only thing that keeps my 9900K from melting under Compute even with a EVGA 280 CLC.

 

A Gaming "Stable" overclock is a lot different than a Compute "Stable" overclock. In general Gaming is all about high single-thread performance with enough other threads to keep other workers fed.

 

Compute is all about 24x7x365 stable performance and keeping thermals in reasonable bounds. My 9900K runs at 4.4GHz all-core at 60C and the VRM at 62C. It's not as exciting as 5.1GHz all-core but the hardware is more likely to survive.