Wraith Prism on 5900X?

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Hey guys,

My pc packed in last night, according to help from this forum, it seems like my NVME drive crapped out.

I have taken this upon me to upgrade another 32gb RAM and change the cooler, along with another boot NVME..

Will a Wraith Prism cooler be ok for gaming on my 5900X. The CPU is stock and I’m not fussed about noise really as when under load usually I have my headphones on anyways.


Cheers.
 
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do you know if the RGB will work with only the CPU fan connected to the header? ie. no USB or 4 pin connector on the motherboard?

im only after random colour profile, not looking to manage the colour scheme via the computer.
 
Zeebedy said:
@mickyflinn

do you know if the RGB will work with only the CPU fan connected to the header? ie. no USB or 4 pin connector on the motherboard?

im only after random colour profile, not looking to manage the colour scheme via the computer.
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Not 100% sure but seen a few conflicting posts that it just glows red or either cycles threw the colours.

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hey guys,

my "new" system is up and running..and as the thread title states, i bought the Wraith Prism cooler..

now, my question is, i was playing CS GO for a good while, (also room is very warm), and my CPU temps peaked at 84c :eek:, but was averaging around 70-71 under load..

Is this safe enough for my CPU, as like I said the average is ok at 70c~ and its a little loud but I have my headphones on when under load ie. gaming.


Cheers.
 
What you can try is limiting the thermal limit of the processor and instead of 90deg you could drop it to low 80s, that way when it reaches the temp limit, it’ll just back off earlier.

But I found more acceptable results for temp by lowering the ppt value in pbo and leaving everything else default. I think I set my ppt to 85w. That way the prism is only ever having to shift 85w of heat* which really stopped the high spikes.

Sure I’ll be leaving some performance in the table, but it’s super stable and on low core count performance it still boosts well.

* I know it’s technically not that value but it illustrates the point
 
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Thanks guys. I think I will reduce the power just to get it a little bit cooler.

If someone can help, or point me to a reliable guide on reducing the thermals on the CPU, that would be awesome!



Thanks!
 
Personally wouldn't worry about hitting max temp on a stock CPU, let alone just the occasional spike. Only becomes a longetivity concern when overclocking/increasing voltage.
 
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ok guys, i have decided to limit my CPU power.

Now, the only option I can find in my BIOS is "ECO MODE" and that is only at 65W.

will this hamper my performance a lot? as its a 105W chip? Main games I play are CS GO and Escape From Tarkov.
 
Eco mode won't impact gaming performance much, or at all, depending on the game, I had a 5900X and had to put it in eco mode during the heatwave and games ran pretty much the same.

If you feel dropping to eco mode is too much, you could adjust PBO and CO settings instead, default PPT for 105w TDP CPUs is 142w, eco mode's PPT is 88w, you could adjust it so it's in between these for a good compromise.
 
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Eco mode won't impact gaming performance much, or at all, depending on the game, I had a 5900X and had to put it in eco mode during the heatwave and games ran pretty much the same.

If you feel dropping to eco mode is too much, you could adjust PBO and CO settings instead, default PPT for 105w TDP CPUs is 142w, eco mode's PPT is 88w, you could adjust it so it's in between these for a good compromise.
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awesome to hear! did it make a significant change to your temps on the CPU?
 
i said **** it, im going to update my BIOS. So I did..

Went fine, was well, well out of date according to MSI website. I managed to set in the BIOS, RAM XMP on and also the "Eco" mode @ 65W.

The temps have dropped a little bit in AfterBurner, but the main thing is the cooler! OMG, its half the volume levels it was..will keep an eye on things but so far, not lost much performance that i have noticed.
 
In games you’re less likely to see a noticeable drop in performance that bothers you. The majority of games seem to use a low-ish number of cores, which means the cpu can send more power to them.

For a super super simplistic example, imagine your total power available is 100W on an 16 core cpu. . If a game load uses 4 cores then the 100W could get shared to them mainly … so 25W each, which will let them boost hard and hit high clock speeds and make the game run well.

If a game or load used all 16 cores ( say like video rendering ), then that same 100W has to split 16 ways … each core getting about 6W … so the speed drops across all cores.

The point being that even if you’re lowering your power limit, it may not necessarily lower the boost clocks by the same amount.
 
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