CPU overheating

[Aprils]

Hello! I just upgraded my cpu from a Ryzen 5 3600x to a Ryzen 9 5900x and also upgraded to an MSI B550M gaming plus mother board, I also added a Noctua NH-U12S SE cpu cooler. When I play games I notice how hot the computer exhaust and case is and when I restart the computer before going to windows my BIOS (I believe) warns me of CPU overheating. 
 

If someone could please recommend what to do. 
 

I don’t know if my GPU is to close to my CPU cooler or if I have bad airflow (maybe from dirty fans) in general. 
 

here are the photos of my computer now. 

[SpookyCitrus]

This would typically mean that your mounting pressure or thermal paste application is lacking.  I would remove the cooler and remount it again to confirm your thermal paste application and mounting pressure are adequate. 

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, Aprils said:

Hello! I just upgraded my cpu from a Ryzen 5 3600x to a Ryzen 9 5900x and also upgraded to an MSI B550M gaming plus mother board, I also added a Noctua NH-U12S SE cpu cooler. When I play games I notice how hot the computer exhaust and case is and when I restart the computer before going to windows my BIOS (I believe) warns me of CPU overheating. 
 

If someone could please recommend what to do. 
 

I don’t know if my GPU is to close to my CPU cooler or if I have bad airflow (maybe from dirty fans) in general. 
 

here are the photos of my computer now. 

your gpu and cpu cooler are perfectly fine at that distance

 

Also if you want to see your cpu temps I would recommend either downloading cinebench r23 and hwinfo64 and us hwinfo to see your temps during a cinebench run OR get msi afterburner with rivatuner and see your cpu usage and temps in game

[Aprils]

1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

This would typically mean that your mounting pressure or thermal paste application is lacking.  I would remove the cooler and remount it again to confirm your thermal paste application and mounting pressure are adequate. 

Thank you for replying so fast! I did take the cpu cooler off as well as the thermal paste and reapplied more and screwed in equally on each side. I can definitely do that one more time to see if that does the trick but if it still overheats do you think it could be anything else?

[Aprils]

3 minutes ago, filpo said:

your gpu and cpu cooler are perfectly fine at that distance

 

Also if you want to see your cpu temps I would recommend either downloading cinebench r23 and hwinfo64 and us hwinfo to see your temps during a cinebench run OR get msi afterburner with rivatuner and see your cpu usage and temps in game

Perfect I will download those soon and run a test on them! Thank you 

[SpookyCitrus]

7 minutes ago, Aprils said:

Thank you for replying so fast! I did take the cpu cooler off as well as the thermal paste and reapplied more and screwed in equally on each side. I can definitely do that one more time to see if that does the trick but if it still overheats do you think it could be anything else?

When you screw the cooler down are you tightening it down until the screws bottom out/stop? These Noctua coolers have springs incorporated into their mounting screws so that you can't overtighten them and screwing them down until they bottom out/stop insures the correct mounting pressure. So if you are not screwing them until they stop(some people get worried or scared that it's too tight and don't screw them until they stop) that would mean the correct mounting pressure is not being achieved. So if you did apply the proper amount of thermal paste, make sure the mounting pressure is correct. If the computer has a post warning message saying CPU overtemperature detected before you even get into bios, that is a pretty dead giveaway to a cooler issue, typically being a cooler to CPU contact issue. 

[Naijin]

17 minutes ago, Aprils said:

Hello! I just upgraded my cpu from a Ryzen 5 3600x to a Ryzen 9 5900x and also upgraded to an MSI B550M gaming plus mother board, I also added a Noctua NH-U12S SE cpu cooler. When I play games I notice how hot the computer exhaust and case is and when I restart the computer before going to windows my BIOS (I believe) warns me of CPU overheating. 
 

If someone could please recommend what to do. 
 

I don’t know if my GPU is to close to my CPU cooler or if I have bad airflow (maybe from dirty fans) in general. 
 

here are the photos of my computer now. 

Before anyone could suggest anything, what temperatures are we talking about? Temps of CPU and GPU under load/gaming?

[Aprils]

3 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

When you screw the cooler down are you tightening it down until the screws bottom out/stop? These Noctua coolers have springs incorporated into their mounting screws so that you can't overtighten them and screwing them down until they bottom out/stop insures the correct mounting pressure. So if you are not screwing them until they stop(some people get worried or scared that it's too tight and don't screw them until they stop) that would mean the correct mounting pressure is not being achieved. So if you did apply the proper amount of thermal paste, make sure the mounting pressure is correct. If the computer has a post warning message saying CPU overtemperature detected before you even get into bios, that is a pretty dead giveaway to a cooler issue, typically being a cooler to CPU contact issue. 

Okay I will try remounting tomorrow morning because I would play Valorant and then restart my computer and before the MSI screen would appear on my display I would get that “CPU May be overheating check to make sure CPU cooler is installed properly” 

[Aprils]

4 minutes ago, Naijin said:

Before anyone could suggest anything, what temperatures are we talking about? Temps of CPU and GPU under load/gaming?

Hi well I could only see the temps if I finished a game and then restated my computer right away and it was showing CPU temps in my bios as 78 degrees Celsius

[filpo]

1 minute ago, Aprils said:

and it was showing CPU temps in my bios as 78 degrees Celsius

that was in bios?

[Aprils]

Just now, filpo said:

that was in bios?

Yea let me run a game really quick so I can take a picture for my accurate information

[ThousandBlade]

A few thing I noticed

 

If you notice the exhaust is very hot, probable means cooler is working as intended.
Your GPU is blowing hot air right into the intake side of the CPU cooler

5900x a pretty hot chip, not the hottest ones out there now, but I still think a single tower would be a bit lacking.

[Aprils]

1 minute ago, ThousandBlade said:

A few thing I noticed

 

If you notice the exhaust is very hot, probable means cooler is working as intended.
Your GPU is blowing hot air right into the intake side of the CPU cooler

5900x a pretty hot chip, not the hottest ones out there now, but I still think a single tower would be a bit lacking.

What would you recommend? 

[Aprils]

28 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

When you screw the cooler down are you tightening it down until the screws bottom out/stop? These Noctua coolers have springs incorporated into their mounting screws so that you can't overtighten them and screwing them down until they bottom out/stop insures the correct mounting pressure. So if you are not screwing them until they stop(some people get worried or scared that it's too tight and don't screw them until they stop) that would mean the correct mounting pressure is not being achieved. So if you did apply the proper amount of thermal paste, make sure the mounting pressure is correct. If the computer has a post warning message saying CPU overtemperature detected before you even get into bios, that is a pretty dead giveaway to a cooler issue, typically being a cooler to CPU contact issue. 

So I opened Minecraft and Valorant for only 10 mins and this was the results I got from MSI Afterburner 

[filpo]

Just now, Aprils said:

What would you recommend? 

as a cpu cooler? for a 5900x? A thermalright PA120/SE Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 White 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (PA120 White) - PCPartPicker

Or AK620 Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler (R-AK620-BKNNMT-G) - PCPartPicker

[filpo]

Just now, Aprils said:

So I opened Minecraft and Valorant for only 10 mins and this was the results I got from MSI Afterburner 

are you sure your mounting pressure is correct and you put enough thermal paste on?

Do you mind taking off your cpu cooler and showing us the thermal paste on the cpu?

[ThousandBlade]

1 minute ago, Aprils said:

What would you recommend? 

I few ideas, re arrange the airflow in your case.

free solution:

1.Use back fan as intake, reverse the flow of the CPU cooler, and move one of the front intake fans to the top as an exhaust. preferably the top intake fan.

2.turn the whole CPU cooler 90 degrees to the right, so it flow bot to top, it wont be as good as fist option, but should be better than ur setup now.

 

Not free solution:
Get a bigger CPU cooler, to off set performance lost by sucking in hot air

[Renegade.]

If your idle temperature is higher than 60 degrees then you should first check your thermal paste situation and whether your cpu cooler is properly installed.

[aledsav1]

That higher temp in bios indicates the cooler is not mounted properly or something similar, forget about getting another cooler until you identify what the issue is

 

if as you say the thermal paste is fully covering the heatsink and you see that the mounting of the cooler spreads the paste evenly over the cpu then clean paste of cooler and cpu and look for any damage to them, is there any dents in the heatsink? 

 

did you def take any protective film of the heatsink of the cooler??

[UnusualDevices]

what is your bios revision?

also repaste

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Aprils said:

Hello! I just upgraded my cpu from a Ryzen 5 3600x to a Ryzen 9 5900x and also upgraded to an MSI B550M gaming plus mother board, I also added a Noctua NH-U12S SE cpu cooler. When I play games I notice how hot the computer exhaust and case is and when I restart the computer before going to windows my BIOS (I believe) warns me of CPU overheating. 
 

If someone could please recommend what to do. 
 

I don’t know if my GPU is to close to my CPU cooler or if I have bad airflow (maybe from dirty fans) in general. 
 

here are the photos of my computer now. 

 

 

 

What is "hot" ? A 5900X is a pretty hot CPU, with 80-100W under gaming load and usually getting at around 70C in normal conditions, even more under PBO

Did you undervolt the cores ? You can also limit PPT/EDC/TDC

Don't refer to any previous experience with Intel chips they don't heat in the same way, more "linearly"

 

[filpo]

5 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

What is "hot" ? A 5900X is a pretty hot CPU, with 80-100W under gaming load and usually getting at around 70C in normal conditions, even more under PBO

they linked a pic or two

 

1 hour ago, Aprils said:

So I opened Minecraft and Valorant for only 10 mins and this was the results I got from MSI Afterburner 

 

[PDifolco]

6 minutes ago, filpo said:

they linked a pic or two

 

 

Huh ok didn't see them, too many pics

69C in BIOS is not normal, cooler is badly installed imo

[Alex Atkin UK]

2 hours ago, Aprils said:

It also might be worth adjusting the front fans to accommodate for the size of the GPU.  I found moving the top fan so its blowing over the top of the GPU really helps with the NVIDIA FE cards, as its mixing fresh air directly into that GPU exhaust rather than half of it hitting the end of the GPU.  Of course this might not apply to your case as I can't see the fans in relation to the rest of the system.

Also adding a top-back exhaust fan reduced my CPU temp a few degrees.