question High Tempture gaming

[Hamknee]

i have recently purchased a Ryzen 5 5600X and when i game it can reach temptures up to 98! i know it is harmful to my computer if it is that temperature for too long, but if i game for 3 say 2-3 hours at 90 Celsius and take breaks every so often to let it cool down would that hurt my pc?

[RONOTHAN##]

If you're reaching 98C something is really wrong with your cooling config and you need to fix it. That's dangerously close to the point where it thermally shuts down, and it's gotta be thermal throttling very hard (I would be surprised if it was over 2GHz).

 

You gotta fix that man. 

[RadiatingLight]

Nope.

You might be losing some performance, as Ryzen will boost to slightly higher clocks when it has some thermal headroom, but anything under 100C won't hurt your computer (even for long periods of time), and your CPU will shut itself off before damaging itself. You don't even need to take breaks. Maybe if you're running like Folding@Home where it'll be under 100% load 24/7 I'd be somewhat concerned, but for gaming there's no issue.

 

That being said, there might be some low-hanging fruit you could try in order to lower temps -- It shouldn't be getting that hot in the first place. What cooler are you using and what are the rest of your system specs?

[mike_seps]

Something is definitely off there. I have the 5600x and never gets over 75, even while gaming or running extended synthetic benchmarks. I've tested it with both a Hyper 212 tower cooler and my [overkill] Corsair h100i AIO