CPU Overheating with No Open Apps

[kenlynne]

I have a Ryzen 7 5800x and I am at a loss, CPU heats to 90º+ within a minute, cores are shown to be under heavy load, yet CPU isn't being used at all, only 3-5% on task manager. I can't even keep my PC on long enough to take and send screenshots, so sorry for the phone photos. All of this is while at most Core Temp, Task Manager, and HW Monitor is open, so no background apps as shown. 

 

I have:

Reset BIOS

Clean boot

(When I thought it was a cooler issue) Reapplied thermal paste and reconfigured my AIO (240mm MSI something)

Updated drivers

Done other Windows Updates 

Lowering Max Processor State to 50% made it idle at 75º for a minute, then it spiked back to 90º after

Turned on Power Saver, Passive Cooling Policy

 

EDIT: Cooler pump on HW Monitor shows to be working, can hear it working, and all wires have been checked and are seated properly. PC was working fine for several months without any changes being made when this issue started. During the rare minutes the cores go down to 5-10% load, it quickly cools down 30-40º, so I highly doubt it is a cooling issue, something wrong with the CPU.

 

Here are my complete specs and the rating from User Benchmark a few weeks ago

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 95.3%

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 - 97.9%

SSD: HP EX920 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 351.3%

HDD: WD Blue 4TB (2015) - 98%

RAM: G.SKILL F4-3600C18-32GTZN 2x31.5GB - 102.8%

MBD: MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C91)

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[OneOfYas]

My 5600x sits at 70c just at 35% usage but even at full use it only gets to 75c.

Also userbenchmark is trash.

[kenlynne]

Just now, OneOfYas said:

My 5600x sits at 70c just at 35% usage but even at full use it only gets to 75c.

Also userbenchmark is trash.

94º at 5% usage isn't normal though by any means. And only included User Benchmark to show full specs in case, as well as performance just as a vouch that everything else works. Only ran it initially so I wouldn't have to type out the name of each individual component myself.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, kenlynne said:

94º at 5% usage isn't normal though by any means. And only included User Benchmark to show full specs in case, as well as performance just as a vouch that everything else works. Only ran it initially so I wouldn't have to type out the name of each individual component myself.

Sounds like your cooler is faulty or not mounted correctly. If you listen closely, can you hear the pump going?

[OneOfYas]

Just now, kenlynne said:

94º at 5% usage isn't normal though by any means. And only included User Benchmark to show full specs in case, as well as performance just as a vouch that everything else works. Only ran it initially so I wouldn't have to type out the name of each individual component myself.

I would see if your pump speed is too low on your AIO, make sure it's headers are connected correctly (Read the manual).

[kenlynne]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

Sounds like your cooler is faulty or not mounted correctly. If you listen closely, can you hear the pump going?

It is, HW Monitor shows pump is working, and I can hear it as well 

[kenlynne]

1 minute ago, OneOfYas said:

I would see if your pump speed is too low on your AIO, make sure it's headers are connected correctly (Read the manual).

It is working fine according to pump speed shown on HW Monitor, and had to redo wiring when reconfiguring today anyways. PC had been fine for several months with no changes and only messed with stuff after this issue started 

[OneOfYas]

Just now, kenlynne said:

It is working fine according to pump speed shown on HW Monitor, and had to redo wiring when reconfiguring today anyways. PC had been fine for several months with no changes and only messed with stuff after this issue started 

Is it able to be sent back?

I would do that and look into going with air cooling personally, I find that you can achieve very good temps with a good air cooler rather than have more parts in your cooling system able to go wrong.

[kenlynne]

1 minute ago, OneOfYas said:

Is it able to be sent back?

I would do that and look into going with air cooling personally, I find that you can achieve very good temps with a good air cooler rather than have more parts in your cooling system able to go wrong.

I am 99% sure it is not the cooler, so that is arbitrary at this point. Even if the cooler did have an issue, the CPU still heats up way too fast with way too much load which points to a CPU issue, and when it has small periods of time where it isn't overworking itself, it cools down fine, so again, dont believe its a cooler problem. After having air and water cooling, I much prefer the AIO 

[OneOfYas]

4 minutes ago, kenlynne said:

I am 99% sure it is not the cooler, so that is arbitrary at this point. Even if the cooler did have an issue, the CPU still heats up way too fast with way too much load which points to a CPU issue, and when it has small periods of time where it isn't overworking itself, it cools down fine, so again, dont believe its a cooler problem. After having air and water cooling, I much prefer the AIO 

I understand your point made.

However your temperatures are really high and close to silicon limits.. your cooler is 240mm and for WC is abysmal performance, either the cooler is not functioning correctly or there is still something you have not checked / missed.

The temperature is a real issue. Having things eating your CPU?

 

Download these in no order.

Superantispyware.

Malwarebytes.

Run both.

 

Check startup tab in your task manager and disable any apps you do not want loading with Windows, restart your PC and check back.

[kenlynne]

1 hour ago, OneOfYas said:

I understand your point made.

However your temperatures are really high and close to silicon limits.. your cooler is 240mm and for WC is abysmal performance, either the cooler is not functioning correctly or there is still something you have not checked / missed.

The temperature is a real issue. Having things eating your CPU?

 

Download these in no order.

Superantispyware.

Malwarebytes.

Run both.

 

Check startup tab in your task manager and disable any apps you do not want loading with Windows, restart your PC and check back.

Malwarebytes had 0 detections, Superantispyware just showed ad tracker from some websites visited on Google. Tried a different cooler that works in a different PC, still having the same cooling problem, so still not the cooler that is the problem, something with the CPU.