i7 10700k hitting 115C when rendering

[TheChosen1]

Recently i've been having high temps in general with my i7 10700k processor.

When rendering a 1 minute video in DaVinci Resolve - a video editor the cpu peaks at 110-115C (when at 100% load) and then throttles when reaching that temperature. I am using a NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid cooler attached to the intake fans of a NZXT H510 Elite, with both the front intake panel and side panel removed.

I've reset my bios to make sure it wasn't overclocking or anything messed up and I just bought and applied new thermal paste, neither of these fixed it.

I'm not sure if this is unhealthy for the cpu, or if just runs paticularlly hot. If running at full capacity is that an okay temperature?

If anyone has any solutions or insight it would be of great help

[Somerandomtechyboi]

8 minutes ago, TheChosen1 said:

I am using a NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid cooler attached to the intake fans of a NZXT H510 Elite

no sht why its running hot, case that suffocates your pc + sht aio that is prob worse than a cheap 4 heatpipe tower cooler

 

get a decent cooler like a thermalright macho or scythe fuma 2

[TheChosen1]

Just now, Somerandomtechyboi said:

no sht why its running hot, case that suffocates your pc + sht aio that is prob worse than a cheap 4 heatpipe tower cooler

 

get a decent cooler like a thermalright macho or scythe fuma 2

I have both the front and side panel open
The two intake fans on the front are getting a direct airflow

[TheChosen1]

6 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Part of this is definitely due to the fact that many recent Intel CPUs, 10th-12th gen in particular, run very hot, but that is still quite a high temperature for your particular unit, since it's liquid-cooled. Checking Windows's power plan, undervolting the CPU, and adding more fans to the radiator are all good options for mitigating this. This high a temperature is not good for the CPU and motherboard, and it should definitely be taken care of.

Could I set the throttling temperature to a lower point that 110c somehow?
Also i'm using a GT1030 because of the shortage so perhaps applications are putting more of the workload on the cpu instead of gpu?

Any further insight you can give me?

Lastly I have a Z490 motherboard, i saw something about it drawing more heat from intel cpus than other boards here.. 

 

 

[TheChosen1]

54 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Most applications are meant to have specific bits running on only the CPU or GPU. It's quite unlikely that a weak GPU would be pushing more of the workload to the CPU--in fact, the opposite would usually be true, since a beefy GPU needs a better CPU to keep it supplied with data.

 

I think you may be able to lower the throttling point in Intel XTU, though adjusting the power limit may be a better option. Lowering the maximum boost clockspeeds and voltages slightly can work wonders for the power consumption.

 

By the way, what thermal paste are you using? Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is basically the best non-liquid-metal paste out there, and it'd be great for knocking down temperatures considerably.

 

While certain Z490 boards will allow the CPU to draw more power by disabling its power limits, you can mitigate this by changing the corresponding BIOS setting. I think that'll be the biggest thing here, since it looks like your CPU is trying to run at speeds where it would normally run for for less than a second.

Thank you so much for your help, I am using the XTM50 High performance thermal paste from corsair. It had great reviews and a good price.

What would the corrisponding BIOS setting be for mitigating something like the motherboard drawing more power?

If you have any kind of solution in mind, i'll try anything.

I'm not sure what to lower my voltages and clockspeed to for my i7 10700k, i've had it on auto and im not sure what clocking it down number wise would be.

Also, this is so out of the blue. All of a sudden launching a game on steam puts my cpu at 90c, even on stock bios settings. And it seems to be getting worse. 

Thanks again.

[TheChosen1]

7 hours ago, Schnoz said:

No problem! If you think my response was sufficiently helpful, please consider marking it as the solution so others with the same problem will be able to quickly find it as well.

 

You should be able to disable the CPU's gratuitous boosting behavior through disabling Multi-Core Enhancement or Enhanced Multi-Core Performance (or something along those lines; manufacturers call it different things for some reason.

 

Doing that alone should revert temperatures back to sane levels, but there should be quite a few good undervolt guides online. As a very rough guide, lower the CPU voltage by 50 mV and run Prime95 on it to check its stability. Once you're down to the point where Prime95 crashes, increase the voltage just enough that Prime95 runs stably.

Is this going to lower the cpu power so it doesn't overheat?

Lower performance?

Do you know anything that could’ve caused this?

Thanks.