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Sorry if this is pretty obvious for some of you guys but just thought I'd highlight an issue that was driving me bonkers.
Going to start of with my hardware combo and list of RGB software (you'll see where this is heading...);
Asus Rog Strix X570-E
5800X
NZXT Kraken X73
Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3600 CL18
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC
NZXT CAM
Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2.0 (...)
Corsair iCUE 3/4 (switched to 4, encountered same issues before switch)
So back to the issue. During normal desktop use my temps were around 69 degrees, bumping up to around 74 degrees during gaming and around 80 odd degrees during CPU intensive benchmarks. I scratched it off to just a quirk of the CPU (AMD admitting themselves that it's a hot boy). But I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. I had played around with PBO2 and dialled in my settings to help undervolt as effective as I could and yet my temps were still high for my Kraken X73.
I also suddenly without warning one day ran into RGB issues preventing my iCUE from loading, and really crappy behaviour from the RGB Fusion software. So in the end I decided to uninstall both iCUE and RGB Fusion to see what I could do. For starters my RGB profile I had set for my RTX 3080 held so I no longer needed that bloatware. I was then able to properly re-install iCUE (switched to version 4) and as another bonus the plugin for my Asus motherboard now properly works.
The biggest improvement aside from RGB actually working more streamlined is that now my temps at desktop are sitting around 39-45 degrees, and then around 50 odd degrees whilst gaming. And I jumped from 14400 odd multicore score in Cinebench R23 to 15500 odd!
So for anyone that still has Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2.0 on their system for just their graphics card, please do yourself a favour. Uninstall it, erase it from your mind and get back on with your gaming lives in the knowledge that you have saved your PCs soul from eternal damnation.
Going to start of with my hardware combo and list of RGB software (you'll see where this is heading...);
Asus Rog Strix X570-E
5800X
NZXT Kraken X73
Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3600 CL18
Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC
NZXT CAM
Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2.0 (...)
Corsair iCUE 3/4 (switched to 4, encountered same issues before switch)
So back to the issue. During normal desktop use my temps were around 69 degrees, bumping up to around 74 degrees during gaming and around 80 odd degrees during CPU intensive benchmarks. I scratched it off to just a quirk of the CPU (AMD admitting themselves that it's a hot boy). But I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. I had played around with PBO2 and dialled in my settings to help undervolt as effective as I could and yet my temps were still high for my Kraken X73.
I also suddenly without warning one day ran into RGB issues preventing my iCUE from loading, and really crappy behaviour from the RGB Fusion software. So in the end I decided to uninstall both iCUE and RGB Fusion to see what I could do. For starters my RGB profile I had set for my RTX 3080 held so I no longer needed that bloatware. I was then able to properly re-install iCUE (switched to version 4) and as another bonus the plugin for my Asus motherboard now properly works.
The biggest improvement aside from RGB actually working more streamlined is that now my temps at desktop are sitting around 39-45 degrees, and then around 50 odd degrees whilst gaming. And I jumped from 14400 odd multicore score in Cinebench R23 to 15500 odd!
So for anyone that still has Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2.0 on their system for just their graphics card, please do yourself a favour. Uninstall it, erase it from your mind and get back on with your gaming lives in the knowledge that you have saved your PCs soul from eternal damnation.