Is 62C good while I am downloading a game on my amd ryzen 9 5900x?

[Joqso]

So I have a masterliquid lite 120 with a amd ryzen 9 5900x, maybe not the best combo but is 62C good while downloading a game?

[Levent]

Considering my 3100 sits at 55c (with a PF120) when I am working, I would say it is fine. I am not sure if 120 AIO can handle 5900X at full blast though.

[Chris Pratt]

Well, yes and no. Yes, 62C is fine and nothing to worry about, but no, that's not great for mostly idle.

 

Of course, your issue there is that you're cooling a 5900X with a 120mm rad. You'd do better with a single tower air cooler, which still wouldn't be sufficient to cool that chip.

[Mando772004]

1 minute ago, Joqso said:

So I have a masterliquid lite 120 with a amd ryzen 9 5900x, maybe not the best combo but is 62C good while downloading a game?

downloading a game is not a measure really for temps. its either you're idle or you arent. try cinebench r15 if you get decent scores then you're good

[Joqso]

5 minutes ago, InfernalClaw said:

downloading a game is not a measure really for temps. its either you're idle or you arent. try cinebench r15 if you get decent scores then you're good

So I did a cinebench and it maxed 73C, is that fine?

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

9 minutes ago, Joqso said:

So I did a cinebench and it maxed 73C, is that fine?

 

yea definitely, Ryzen 5k cpus run hotter by default. The auto oc feature is wayyy more aggressive and that translates directly to performance.  

[Mando772004]

22 minutes ago, Joqso said:

So I did a cinebench and it maxed 73C, is that fine?

yep

[Dedayog]

25 minutes ago, Joqso said:

So I did a cinebench and it maxed 73C, is that fine?

73c seems awful low for a 5900x and a 120mm during Cinebench.  What is your ambient temp?

[Joqso]

1 minute ago, Dedayog said:

73c seems awful low for a 5900x and a 120mm during Cinebench.  What is your ambient temp?

Ambient temp?

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, Joqso said:

Ambient temp?

Temperature of the room the PC is in.  Ambient is the temp around something or an area.

[freeagent]

Mine is crunching away on world community grid and is holding itself at 4600-4650MHz with an 80c load. 62 seems a bit warm for installing a game.

 

Also, I do know of a single tower cooler that can cool the 5900X but it is huge but would have no problems..  I might install it today actually.

[OddOod]

That's a wildly under powered cooler. What was the rationale in picking it?

[Mikey89]

OP is that your temp while downloading with Steam, Origin etc ?

 

If yes then yeah it's completely normal... I have this happening for me also when i'm downloading with Steam temps rise a bit, not a lot but they do rise.

 

I don't know why it does that, a few friends of mine told me it's because of how Steam is managing compressed files.

 

What i can 100% recommend is while your game is downloading just don't do anything else on your PC. Just let Steam do it's thing and finish the download and resume after what else you want to do. If you are on an HDD it will make your PC really slow when downloading if you do anything else. I myself tried doing multiple things while downloading on an M.2 and i found at very rare moments it would slow down a bit for 1 second and then back to normal... not nearly as bad as when i was on HDD but it is a bit noticeable if you try to make the PC do multiple things while downloading.

[GuiltySpark_]

1 hour ago, Chris Pratt said:

Well, yes and no. Yes, 62C is fine and nothing to worry about, but no, that's not great for mostly idle.

 

 

If this was Steam, that's complexly normal. I see 20-40% constant usage when downloading from Steam on my 5800x. Temps don't get quite that high as I have a 360 AIO but still, Steam puts a decent load with its unpacking of files. 

[Mikey89]

1 minute ago, rickeo said:

If this was Steam, that's complexly normal. I see 20-40% constant usage when downloading from Steam on my 5800x. Temps don't get quite that high as I have a 360 AIO but still, Steam puts a decent load with its unpacking of files. 

THIS !

 

Exactly what a few friends told me it's happening when downloading with Steam, it's cuz of how it unpacks files.

[Chris Pratt]

6 minutes ago, rickeo said:

If this was Steam, that's complexly normal. I see 20-40% constant usage when downloading from Steam on my 5800x. Temps don't get quite that high as I have a 360 AIO but still, Steam puts a decent load with its unpacking of files. 

5800X runs hotter than the 5900X, for one.

[GuiltySpark_]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

5800X runs hotter than the 5900X, for one.

That wasn't really the point of my comment, its that his PC wasn't idle if it was downloading from Steam and some other major storefronts. 

[Chris Pratt]

Just now, rickeo said:

That wasn't really the point of my comment, its that his PC wasn't idle if it was downloading from Steam and some other major storefronts. 

I understand. I said mostly idle, anyways. Steam being perhaps a bit heavy handed in its resource usage aside, simply downloading data and writing data to a drive is no where near approaching a significant amount of load. If it's 62C there, you'll easily do 80C+ in game.

 

Besides it's a 120mm rad, so high temps is a known quantity. That literally cannot keep up with a 5900X, so temperatures will continue to climb under a sustained load.

[GuiltySpark_]

73c during Cinebench? 

 

We're not getting the full picture here and he isn't aware of the term "ambient temperature". I don't know how much more can be done here. 

[Mikey89]

12 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

5800X runs hotter than the 5900X, for one.

@Chris Pratt

 

Just out of curiosity what temps do you get on your CPU when gaming ?

[Chris Pratt]

55 minutes ago, Mikey89 said:

@Chris Pratt

 

Just out of curiosity what temps do you get on your CPU when gaming ?

Mid 70s, but I'm running with PBO and fairly high limits, counterbalanced with a 280mm AIO. I also run a silence optimized fan curve, so it's pretty much has to hit 80c before the fans run more than 50%

[Mikey89]

3 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Mid 70s, but I'm running with PBO and fairly high limits, counterbalanced with a 280mm AIO. I also run a silence optimized fan curve, so it's pretty much has to hit 80c before the fans run more than 50%

Was curious cuz i hit around 68'C maybe 70'C after i switched cases... but that's on Ryzen 5 3600 not 5800X

[Chris Pratt]

10 minutes ago, Mikey89 said:

Was curious cuz i hit around 68'C maybe 70'C after i switched cases... but that's on Ryzen 5 3600 not 5800X

Case can make a huge difference. More than people tend to realize. It used to not matter as much, but modern components run way hotter than they did in the past. Just look at something like the 3090 that can easily pull 400-500W depending on how it's configured. The heat generated from that is massive.

 

Basically, it's mesh front panel or don't even bother, now. Unless it's really low powered components inside, any remotely closed off case is going to have thermal issues unless you mitigate them with lots of radiator and/or fans.