Noctua NH-D9L hitting 90°C with 110W of CPU power. Is this normal?

[JaySong]

I just got a 5800x3d as one last hurrah for my AM4 system. Since my build is in the NCase M1v6, I couldn't have too big of a CPU. I wanted to stay with air cooling for ease of use and decided on the NH-D9L as an upgrade over my NH-L9x65.

 

The problem is that whenever I run an all core workload (in this case, Cinebench R23), the CPU would hit 90°C almost immediately. I did the -30 offset in PBO and followed the setup from OptimumTech's video on PBO.

 

After editing the power limit for the CPU in the bios, I was able to consistently get temps of 85°C under 100% usage.

 

I've already tried repasting the CPU (from Noctua H1 to Arctic TP-6 since that has been working better for me recently). This problem happens in both an open air test bench and case with nearly identical performance.

 

Is this what I should have expected from the NH-D9L or is there somewhere that I could have gone wrong with it?

[jaslion]

8 minutes ago, JaySong said:

Is this what I should have expected from the NH-D9L

Yup.

 

It's an older expensive cooler for what it does that is outclassed by cheaper units. Even the u12 from noctua does better. A peerless assasin 120, ak620, fuma 2 or 3,... are all better cheaper or at worst same priced coolers.

 

This was basically a weird little cooler made for the at the time popular smaller form factor cases.

 

Pretty much no reason for it's existence today except niche case sizes.

 

 

[JaySong]

23 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Pretty much no reason for it's existence today except niche case sizes.

 

 

28 minutes ago, Dean0919 said:

Thermalright Peerless Assassin

Thank you for the suggestions and the comments. Unfortunately, I do have a niche case size in the NCase M1v6 which has a max cooler height of 130mm. Because of that I'm limited by what I can choose for an air cooler. Worse comes to worse, it does support AIO coolers up to 240mm.

[freeagent]

A 240 AIO would be better than what you are running now.

 

God that hurt to say.

 

I despise CLC/AIO.

[NorKris]

11 minutes ago, freeagent said:

A 240 AIO would be better than what you are running now.

 

God that hurt to say.

 

I despise CLC/AIO.

eeeee-waas.... Kappa

[freeagent]

4 minutes ago, NorKris said:

eeeee-waas.... Kappa

Hey.. you know I am going to  another one, just to see what the hype is about

 

Just not right now

[jaslion]

Yup aio time. See if an arctic liquid freezer II can fit on your board. If not ek has a good budget option too. Just dont get the cooler master ml240

[NorKris]

53 minutes ago, jaslion said:

 Just dont get the cooler master ml240

why?  

[JaySong]

Thanks for all the responses. I might stay with the air cooler for now as apparently some people have used it with CPUs as high as the 7800X3D even though they note it doesn't perform as well. I'm getting like 90% of the performance from it with the negative offset + 100W limit, but if temps start creeping up I might replace it with a 240mm

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, NorKris said:

why?  

It's basically the lowest end of the usuall available everywhere aio's.

[Jeppes]

I would just stop running cinebench and enjoy the pc.

[JaySong]

11 minutes ago, Jeppes said:

I would just stop running cinebench and enjoy the pc.

Honestly yeah. Started doing that and life has been much better.