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Hi, this is my first post here, so hope there's enough information for you guy to help out.

I've always been enthusiastic about computers, from the hardware to software and all everything works, so I've been playing with hardware for a while now, but still need to learn a thing or two ( or a lot xD)

 

Right now, I was hoping to get some help improving my build, which I assembled. I think it's getting bottlenecked because I might have some air flow issues. In the summer, when I was gaming sometimes it crashed due to high temps, which I suspect having two reasons. 1st would be the case is too small or I overkilled it with the CPU Cooler and the 2nd would be because the room where I was (an attic with small window) would get really hot.

 

 

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Because its cleaning season, before I started I was hoping to have some tips where I could improve this system and why. (It definitely needs some thermal paste right now).

Hope you guys can understand the photos. 

 

Country: Portugal

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Overwatch, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077, Service Studio - OutSystems (Programming Tool, very CPU/Memory demanding Chrome style), VSC

My Build

 

Thanks a lot

 

 

 

P.S. Sorry about the cable mess. I suck at cable management... 

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11 minutes ago, breakNull said:

Sorry about the cable mess. I suck at cable management... 

This is step 1 in improving your thermals. Even the most basic cable management will allow for better airflow in that case and lowering temps a tad. However I find it hard to believe a beefy looking cooler like that would cause overheating

Primary Laptop (Gearsy MK4): Ryzen 9 5900HX, Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 24 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz, 512 GB SSD+1TB SSD, 15.6 in 300 Hz IPS display

2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition

 

Secondary Laptop (Uni MK2): Ryzen 7 5800HS, Nvidia GTX 1650, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz, 512 GB SSD 

2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 

 

Meme Machine (Uni MK1): Shintel Core i5 7200U, Nvidia GT 940MX, 24 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz, 256 GB SSD+500GB HDD, 15.6 in TN Display 

2016 Acer Aspire E5 575 

 

Retired Laptop (Gearsy MK2): Ryzen 5 2500U, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 12 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4, 256 GB NVME SSD, 15.6" 1080p IPS Touchscreen 

2017 HP Envy X360 15z (Ryzen)

 

PC (Gearsy): A6 3650, HD 6530D , 8 GB 1600 Mhz Kingston DDR3, Some Random Mobo Lol, EVGA 450W BT PSU, Stock Cooler, 128 GB Kingston SSD, 1 TB WD Blue 7200 RPM

HP P7 1234 (Yes It's Actually Called That)  RIP 

 

Also im happy to answer any Ryzen Mobile questions if anyone is interested! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Start with rotating the CPU cooler 90 degrees. This will allow it to breathe. It's choked right now.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

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CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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On 12/17/2020 at 7:55 PM, Voluspa said:

Start with rotating the CPU cooler 90 degrees. This will allow it to breathe. It's choked right now.

This might be why its overheating. Like a said, I kinda learn out to build on my own and didn't realise the air flow direction. Thanks a lot for the tip. I'm cleaning and reasamble it today, and then later going to run some benchmarks and then play for some time to check the temps. Also will play the same games that weren't performing as it should to check if there was any improvements.

 

Thanks a lot for the replies.

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On 12/27/2020 at 8:04 AM, breakNull said:

This might be why its overheating. Like a said, I kinda learn out to build on my own and didn't realise the air flow direction. Thanks a lot for the tip. I'm cleaning and reasamble it today, and then later going to run some benchmarks and then play for some time to check the temps. Also will play the same games that weren't performing as it should to check if there was any improvements.

 

Thanks a lot for the replies.

If it's still running hot or slow, just reply here and we can keep looking at smaller set up things that might have been missed.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

Oppbevaring

CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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Ok, so after some tests it seems to be stable. Thanks a lot guys!

 

Although I think the CPU might be a bottleneck for my GPU, but I'm not sure.

Right now, I'm overclocking my CPU at 19% (motherboard pre configs) and didn't do anything to GPU besides change to Gaming mode on Asus GPU Tweak II when I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2.

Other possibility might be that my parts are sucking more energy than the PSU can provide, and I don't know how to test that last part...

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