High Temps

[SpaceOperator]

I recently Upgraded my Case, AIO, and PSU and I'm getting some high thermals 50-67c Idle. If I fire up a modern game it will jump up to 75-80c. If i play older titles i can keep it around 50-65c

My Case is a corsair 5000d airflow and my AIO is a 360mm h150i LCD, and my GPU is a 2080 FE, now I am missing the front fans, corsair only sent one in the front and one in the back, I plan to get them as soon as I get paid probably will lower temps, I put a little extra thermal paste on the CPU than what came pre-applied. I'm cooling a Ryzen 9 3900x that is not overclocked any suggestions on how to lower temps, do I need more than 6 fans, I've got room for 9, currently 3 exhaust fans on top.

[TPCEA]

Move your AIO to the front with fans on intake and put one fan in the rear and the other on top above it. Contact Corsair to get the missing fan. 

Edited August 8, 2024 by RevGAM

[lafrente]

If your AIO is exhaust as well, you have 4 exhaust fans, and 1 intake? Rear exhaust is pretty much useless in this config. Move it to the front as intake. Also don't mix thermal pastes, I don't think that's a good idea.

[SpaceOperator]

10 minutes ago, RevGAM said:

 Contact Corsair to get the missing fan. 

I'm Buying different fans than what came with the case. The case came with the non rgb fans with standard wires. I'm getting the QX120's that mesh with the AIO so that I have less wires to run.

[SpaceOperator]

2 minutes ago, lafrente said:

If your AIO is exhaust as well, you have 4 exhaust fans, and 1 intake? Rear exhaust is pretty much useless in this config. Move it to the front as intake. Also don't mix thermal pastes, I don't think that's a good idea.

I had to remove the rear exhaust fan because it was in the way of the AIO cables

I have the option to remove the beauty panel and attach 3 more fans but they are in an awkward position

[GuiltySpark_]

10 minutes ago, SpaceOperator said:

I recently Upgraded my Case, AIO, and PSU and I'm getting some high thermals 50-67c Idle. If I fire up a modern game it will jump up to 75-80c. If i play older titles i can keep it around 50-65c

Thermals of what? CPU? Do you know how to verify a true idle or are you judging that based on you don't think you're doing anything at the time? If you changed the AIO and the system is doing nothing in an air conditioned room and you see a jump in "idle" temps this large the cooler has a problem, isn't setup correctly, isn't mounted correctly, or the CPU is working on something that you're not aware of (verify true idle in Task Manager). 

 

That all being said a simple benchmark will tell you if the CPU is healthy and being cooled adequately, regardless of the raw temp numbers. 

 

If it can idle and gaming temps are whatever, they don't matter as long as the chip is doing what its supposed to be doing at full load. 

[SpaceOperator]

25 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Thermals of what? CPU? Do you know how to verify a true idle or are you judging that based on you don't think you're doing anything at the time? If you changed the AIO and the system is doing nothing in an air conditioned room and you see a jump in "idle" temps this large the cooler has a problem, isn't setup correctly, isn't mounted correctly, or the CPU is working on something that you're not aware of (verify true idle in Task Manager). 

 

That all being said a simple benchmark will tell you if the CPU is healthy and being cooled adequately, regardless of the raw temp numbers. 

 

If it can idle and gaming temps are whatever, they don't matter as long as the chip is doing what its supposed to be doing at full load. 

CPU Temp and by Idle I mean with only Firefox open and maybe some stuff running in the background and it stays in the low to mid 50's, If i launch fallout 3 it will jump into the low to mid 60's but can get as low as 55C, if I launch fallout 4 the temps will jump to 70-75c and probably 80 didn't play it too long to find out. Temps are taken from the motherboard sensors by the ICUE software and displayed on my LCD screen on the AIO pump

 

also my room is in a separate part of the house away from the main AC unit, and I live in the southeastern part of the us where it is hot and humid for most of the summer. i have a fan that I keep on in my room but I'm looking to get a window unit.

 

I went from having a 120mm AIO to a better 360mm AIO my old one was about 5 years old and I need better cooling capacity

 

need front intake fans will get asap, I thought the case would come with them but it only came with one front and one rear and I'm replacing them with different fans anyway QX120's

[podkall]

27 minutes ago, SpaceOperator said:

I'm Buying different fans than what came with the case. The case came with the non rgb fans with standard wires. I'm getting the QX120's that mesh with the AIO so that I have less wires to run.

that's pretty unreasonably expensive just to save you few minutes of routing fan cables

[GuiltySpark_]

4 minutes ago, SpaceOperator said:

CPU Temp and by Idle I mean with only Firefox open and maybe some stuff running in the background and it stays in the low to mid 50's, If i launch fallout 3 it will jump into the low to mid 60's but can get as low as 55C, if I launch fallout 4 the temps will jump to 70-75c and probably 80 didn't play it too long to find out. Temps are taken from the motherboard sensors by the ICUE software and displayed on my LCD screen on the AIO pump

 

also my room is in a separate part of the house away from the main AC unit, and I live in the southeastern part of the us where it is hot and humid for most of the summer. i have a fan that I keep on in my room but I'm looking to get a window unit.

 

I went from having a 120mm AIO to a better 360mm AIO my old one was about 5 years old and I need better cooling capacity

Ok, well at this time with only statistic being temps that don't mean a whole lot on their own, I'm not really seeing much wrong. If you can identify an issue where for example you're scoring significantly lower in a CPU benchmark or HWiNFO shows you as throttling, it seems like all is well. 

 

Its very common for people to get too caught up on raw temp numbers without any context to what they mean or what they might be affecting. Meanwhile, you can simply test in something like Cinebench. 3900x's score around 850 at stock up to 1050 when PBO tuned for the Multicore test. 

[TPCEA]

Your temps look fine - they are not even close to being a problem. 

 

Again, if you want better results, move the AIO...

 

And do keep in mind that a change in temperature doesn't always produce a change in performance.

[SpaceOperator]

19 minutes ago, podkall said:

that's pretty unreasonably expensive just to save you few minutes of routing fan cables

I knew that going in to this little refresh project, That was the whole reason I bought this AIO, its expandable and took time off of having to route everything and I didn't have the messy wiring of a commander core xt, this is a PC that I want to be low maintenance for what is right now still my main PC.

24 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Ok, well at this time with only statistic being temps that don't mean a whole lot on their own, I'm not really seeing much wrong. If you can identify an issue where for example you're scoring significantly lower in a CPU benchmark or HWiNFO shows you as throttling, it seems like all is well. 

 

Its very common for people to get too caught up on raw temp numbers without any context to what they mean or what they might be affecting. Meanwhile, you can simply test in something like Cinebench. 3900x's score around 850 at stock up to 1050 when PBO tuned for the Multicore test. 

I am currently running cine bench at the moment about to head out for work