12400f high temps

[Shadow1789]

Build:

CPU: 12400f

Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin Mini 120
Thermal Paste: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut 

Motherboard: MSI Pro B760-P Wifi DDR4

Case: Cooler Master K350

Case Fans: Front intake, bottom intake, rear exhaust. All case fans are Arctic P12s

 

Idle temps are in the 30s, high 30s if I had already pushed the CPU since boot, low 30s if not. Ran Prime95 for 2 hours and temps held stable at 92 degrees with 0 throttling. With the stock cooler I was reaching 100 and throttling but not enough to cause crashes, just lowered clock speeds. Idle on the stock cooler was in the 40s. Aren't these temps still high considering the CPU?
 

[Mumintroll]

It could be because motherboard manufacturers usually have a setting on as default in their bios, to let the motherboard decide how much power to give to the cpu. This usually gives more power to the cpu than what's within Intel's own safety limit. It's most noticable when benchmarking of course. It's like an extra overclock outside of their own Turbo boost thing, and it's default on.

 

Look at this youtube vid.

 

So if you find that setting for your bios, select the option that it should follow Intel's specifications and power limits.

Run the benchmarks again and see if there are differences.

[Shadow1789]

10 minutes ago, Mumintroll said:

It could be because motherboard manufacturers usually have a setting on as default in their bios, to let the motherboard decide how much power to give to the cpu. This usually gives more power to the cpu than what's within Intel's own safety limit. It's most noticable when benchmarking of course. It's like an extra overclock outside of their own Turbo boost thing, and it's default on.

 

Look at this youtube vid.

 

So if you find that setting for your bios, select the option that it should follow Intel's specifications and power limits.

Run the benchmarks again and see if there are differences.

I hope this is it cause the only other problems I can think of are that my case is just straight up terrible (which I doubt since I've been running this case for 10 years now) or the motherboard doesn't mount properly which is causing poor contact between CPU and cooler 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 minutes ago, Shadow1789 said:

I hope this is it cause the only other problems I can think of are that my case is just straight up terrible (which I doubt since I've been running this case for 10 years now) or the motherboard doesn't mount properly which is causing poor contact between CPU and cooler 

take sidepanel off see if temps are fixed

 

old cases usually have pretty meh airflow but fixable by taking sidepanel off or if you wanna run fans you can take the frontpanel off instead

[Shadow1789]

11 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

take sidepanel off see if temps are fixed

 

old cases usually have pretty meh airflow but fixable by taking sidepanel off or if you wanna run fans you can take the frontpanel off instead

That isn't an option I'm afraid since I have 2 cats in the room as well. Might just have to live with this lol 

[Mumintroll]

1 hour ago, Shadow1789 said:

I hope this is it cause the only other problems I can think of are that my case is just straight up terrible (which I doubt since I've been running this case for 10 years now) or the motherboard doesn't mount properly which is causing poor contact between CPU and cooler 

 

Well there is the usual advice to clean the dust filters and fans and thermal paste (especially when you're running a zoo with particular hairy feline creatures lol).

But you probably have done that already.

 

Not many knows about this bios setting, and that's put as enabled as default. On my Asus Prime B760, which is a little older, it was put to enabled before I watched that youtube clip.

 

I'm actually eager to hear if it helped, if you got lower temps when benchmarking again with that bios setting changed.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

58 minutes ago, Shadow1789 said:

That isn't an option I'm afraid since I have 2 cats in the room as well. Might just have to live with this lol 

in that case take the front panel off so the fans will work more effectively