I've recently bought a Ryzen 7 3700x, Gigabyte Aorus Elite (BIOS F4g) and the highly recommended Noctua nh-u12a. The temperatures I'm getting are much higher than I'd expected, using Ryzen Master's numbers it idles between 45-55c and rises to 65-78c under moderate load with stock settings just RAM XMP Profile enabled & running the Ryzen balanced power profile in windows. I'm in Scotland so it's not like the ambient temperature is excessively high.
I was wondering if my situation was normal, coming from a 3770k (OC'ed to 4.5Ghz) with a Corsair Hydro H100 cooler I've never seen temps so high but with this being a new chip (7nm and more cores) I don't know what to expect. I've looked online and even here on the forum and seen wildly varied numbers from other people.
I used the supplied Noctua thermal paste, initially using the pea drop in the center method then when I wasn't happy with the temps I cleaned and reapplied paste in an X as I'd heard the chiplet design of the Ryzen 3000 series chips can cause uneven heating. Temps still seemed high so I bought some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaught paste and while that dropped the temps a couple of degrees I still need to run my fans a lot harder than I expected when running heavier workloads or games. The reason I switched from an AIO on my old build to a Noctua air cooler and fans for the new PC was to run my system quieter not louder. The AIO pump was noisy, I figured a low rpm fan system would be better but with these temps I cant run the fans quiet.
Am I missing something are these Zen chips just hot, have I got some dud silicon or is my cooling solution a mistake? I'm wary of buying more kit to lower temps if the real issue isn't one that can be solved with more airflow and alternative cooling solutions. I've already spent near £200 on coolers, thermal paste, more fans and a fan controller for the extra fans
Thanks in advance for any insights.
I was wondering if my situation was normal, coming from a 3770k (OC'ed to 4.5Ghz) with a Corsair Hydro H100 cooler I've never seen temps so high but with this being a new chip (7nm and more cores) I don't know what to expect. I've looked online and even here on the forum and seen wildly varied numbers from other people.
I used the supplied Noctua thermal paste, initially using the pea drop in the center method then when I wasn't happy with the temps I cleaned and reapplied paste in an X as I'd heard the chiplet design of the Ryzen 3000 series chips can cause uneven heating. Temps still seemed high so I bought some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaught paste and while that dropped the temps a couple of degrees I still need to run my fans a lot harder than I expected when running heavier workloads or games. The reason I switched from an AIO on my old build to a Noctua air cooler and fans for the new PC was to run my system quieter not louder. The AIO pump was noisy, I figured a low rpm fan system would be better but with these temps I cant run the fans quiet.
Am I missing something are these Zen chips just hot, have I got some dud silicon or is my cooling solution a mistake? I'm wary of buying more kit to lower temps if the real issue isn't one that can be solved with more airflow and alternative cooling solutions. I've already spent near £200 on coolers, thermal paste, more fans and a fan controller for the extra fans
Thanks in advance for any insights.
