9950x with Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 - Hitting temps in the 80c during gaming.

[Acastus]

Is this normal? I did a stress test on AIDA64 and the CPU hits 95c on full load. It doesn't go higher than that but just wondering if maybe tweaking the AIO tightness to the cpu or something else will help.

Are these temps normal for a 9950x?


My System is:

Ryzen 9 9950x
64gb DDR5 Corsair V 5600mhz c32
RTX 4080
ARCTIC LIQUID FREEZER III HIGH PERFORMANCE
ASRock x870 Riptide wifi
Lian Lii Lancool III Tower
Corsaor 1000w PSU

 

[Acastus]

System Stability Test >>:

Stress CPU, Stress FPU, Stress Cache, Stress SYstem Memory (ALL CHECKED)

Clicked start and left it running for 15 minutes. The CPU hit 95c. It would sometimes go to 96c but never above that.

I've got the OSD on screen now with Youtube playing in the background and Grid Legends downloading from the EA App and the CPU is sitting around the 65c temp mark.

 

[Acastus]

Yes, running stock. I haven't tried what you said. What does it do, is it safe and do I do this in the BIOS?

 

[Acastus]

Something is def not right because when doing nothing it idles at 65c.

 

[Acastus]

I'm running stock. Also, thanks for the replies.

 

[Acastus]

That makes sense. Ok, the paranoia has eased. Thanks for all your replies.

 

[Acastus]

From a physical perspective are the pipes of the rad at the bottom so the pump is getting the water to push through. If not I would give this a try to see if it makes a difference. Also have you applied enough clamping pressure to the cpu screws. When tightening I go in a diagonal and only do a couple of turns then go to the next screw.

Pipes of the rad are at the bottom. I've tried reseating the AIO Pump and the results are always the same. Whether it's lightly tightened or tightened a bit more it the CPU still behaves like this temp wise.