5600x Cooling issues?

[MistahHaskins]

I recently a few days ago installed my new CPU: the Ryzen 5 5600x and man does this things perform on the games I want it too even with my 1650 Super. However the temps are a little, well odd you could say?

 

I am a avid Battlefield player, so I usually play BFV, BF1 and BF4 and other times I would also play Rainbow Six Siege when I get bored of Battlefield. Before: On the Ryzen 5 2600x, the temps were fine, on 1080p 144hz with the 2600x and 1650 Super the temps were fairly decent. On Rainbow Six Siege it would rarely go above 60-62c on any given playthrough. On BFV it would usually get up to around 65-67c which was to be expected from a CPU heavy title. All the temps were under the use of Cooler Masters' Hyper 212 BE with two Noctua chromax.swap.black fans at full speed (1500rmp).

 

When I did install the 5600x, It would never align correctly, but did screw into the standoffs on the motherboard. Temps on Rainbow are reaching roughly 64-65c during times when nothing is happening. On BFV they are reaching up to 68-69c in the menus. In the BIOS I have PBO disabled as I thought it would lower the temps, however I see no change in them at all. I was wondering if maybe the cooler isn't actually making any contact, and I did reorder some more Thermal Paste (ARCTIC MX-5) so I can reseat the cooler and hopefully get it snug where it needs to be!

 

I was fully under the assumption that the 212 BE was more than enough for the 5600x, but I need some reassurance before I go ahead with reseating the cooler, if it may not be worth the effort if it isn't enough to cool it.

[Tech87]

10 minutes ago, MistahHaskins said:

I recently a few days ago installed my new CPU: the Ryzen 5 5600x and man does this things perform on the games I want it too even with my 1650 Super. However the temps are a little, well odd you could say?

 

I am a avid Battlefield player, so I usually play BFV, BF1 and BF4 and other times I would also play Rainbow Six Siege when I get bored of Battlefield. Before: On the Ryzen 5 2600x, the temps were fine, on 1080p 144hz with the 2600x and 1650 Super the temps were fairly decent. On Rainbow Six Siege it would rarely go above 60-62c on any given playthrough. On BFV it would usually get up to around 65-67c which was to be expected from a CPU heavy title. All the temps were under the use of Cooler Masters' Hyper 212 BE with two Noctua chromax.swap.black fans at full speed (1500rmp).

 

When I did install the 5600x, It would never align correctly, but did screw into the standoffs on the motherboard. Temps on Rainbow are reaching roughly 64-65c during times when nothing is happening. On BFV they are reaching up to 68-69c in the menus. In the BIOS I have PBO disabled as I thought it would lower the temps, however I see no change in them at all. I was wondering if maybe the cooler isn't actually making any contact, and I did reorder some more Thermal Paste (ARCTIC MX-5) so I can reseat the cooler and hopefully get it snug where it needs to be!

 

I was fully under the assumption that the 212 BE was more than enough for the 5600x, but I need some reassurance before I go ahead with reseating the cooler, if it may not be worth the effort if it isn't enough to cool it.

You could try using curve optimizer to lower the voltage. That should help cool things down.

 

I have the 5600x running at -25 curve optimizer and boosting all cores at 4.65Ghz.

 

It never passes 70c on a V5 Vetroo cooler.

 

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

You already have good temps, no point nuking performance when these things are fine upto 90c

[MistahHaskins]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

You already have good temps, no point nuking performance when these things are fine upto 90c

 

Should I reseat the cooler though?

[Ralfi]

Those temps don’t seem too bad. 
 

Maybe the 5600X is just pulling more power than the 2600X? Have you got the Wattage of each CPU handy? 
 

Newer CPU doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get better temps. Sure it’ll be more efficient, but it may use more power so it needs to run warmer. If your old CPU used the amount of power of your new CPU, then its temps may be even higher. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

2 minutes ago, MistahHaskins said:

 

Should I reseat the cooler though?

If you are already under 70c why even bother?

 

at this point id prob do a minor overclock to maybe ~4.8ghz for abit of extra performance if it doesnt mean shoving volts through the roof, cause under 80c usually means theres some performance potential, on ryzen i wouldnt really go above 1.35v just because diminishing returns though they are fine upto 1.45v

[MistahHaskins]

4 minutes ago, Ralfi said:

Those temps don’t seem too bad. 
 

Maybe the 5600X is just pulling more power than the 2600X? Have you got the Wattage of each CPU handy? 
 

Newer CPU doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get better temps. Sure it’ll be more efficient, but it may use more power so it needs to run warmer. If your old CPU used the amount of power of your new CPU, then its temps may be even higher. 

on the 2600x if I can remember correctly it would use up to around 105-115w on any giver load. The 5600x hasn't been past around 90w yet and that is under those same loads.

[MistahHaskins]

4 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

If you are already under 70c why even bother?

 

at this point id prob do a minor overclock to maybe ~4.8ghz for abit of extra performance if it doesnt mean shoving volts through the roof, cause under 80c usually means theres some performance potential, on ryzen i wouldnt really go above 1.35v just because diminishing returns though they are fine upto 1.45v

I wouldn't try to overclock, I myself know that it wasn't seated right. I could tell when I did that, the only thing I was wondering was of course if the Hyper 212 BE  would be enough to cool it IF I did get it to make contact all the way

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, MistahHaskins said:

I wouldn't try to overclock

Well you arent really missing out on much if you dont overclock, you could literally just turn on pbo and thatll auto overclock for you

 

You may be interested in undervolting though, maybe set a static volt like 1.3v and see how high you can push the cpu freq

 

2 minutes ago, MistahHaskins said:

I myself know that it wasn't seated right. I could tell when I did that, the only thing I was wondering was of course if the Hyper 212 BE  would be enough to cool it IF I did get it to make contact all the way

Ofc itd be enough, if its already under 70c even without full contact then with full contact itll be abit better

[MistahHaskins]

2 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

maybe set a static volt like 1.3v and see how high you can push the cpu freq

I'm not very educated when it comes to undervolting, however it was an idea that I was going to try in the meantime while I wait for the paste to arrive to seat the cooler all the way.