OjoMeister
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Hello everyone,
Here is my system:
Since i've built this PC i noticed that the temps were a little to high but everyone on the net said that 13th&14th gen ran hot so i just thought that it was somewhat normal. At the moment when i was commissioning the PC i ran some stress tests and temps were reaching high 90C if i recall correctly, but at that time i was running 2 sticks of RAM. Since then i've "upgraded" to 4 sticks of RAM, 32GB was a bit on the low side considering Tarkov's high need of memory and the fact that i was also keeping Discord and other chome based apps which take lots of RAM space. The setup was not stable out of the box when enabling the XMP profile, 6400MHz is just too much to ask for, so i settled for 6200MHz but also had to do some voltage tweeking in order to run stable at this freq. Anyhow everything was fine the temps were still a bit high while gaming (85C-95C) but never had any issues. I remember I used Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for the CPU power limits, i'm not sure i did the bios tweeking but i probably did. In order to use the tool, VBS has to be disabled and it was, until i decided i wanted to go back to FACEIT, where in order to use their anticheat you have to enable VBS, which of course made the tool unusable and so the power limits not imposed in the system. A few mounths have passed without me noticing anything, no real issues, there were issues but manly due to poor optimisations of the games i've played, until a few days ago a friend of mine bought Tarkov and had issues running it, his CPU usage was 30/40% but had low FPS so i wanted to check how my system was doing and that's when i noticed i was almost always running at 95-100C which freaked me out. I closed everyting and opened MSI Afterburner and guess what... 70C while idleing on desktop... I panicked, with no clue as to why is this happening. I work in engineering so i imediatly started to rule out the causes,
Here is my system:
CPU : Intel Core i7 14700KF with Thermal Grizzly LGA1700 Contact Frame
GPU : MSI GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER VENTUS 3X OC
MBO : MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI
AIO : Lian Li Galahad II Trinity 360 black
RAM : ADATA XPG LANCER RGB 6400MHz cl32 64GB (4X16 GB @6200MHz)
SSD : ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 2TB
HDD : Seagate Barracuda 2TB
PSU : be quiet! Pure Power 12 M, 850W
CASE : Montech AIR 903 Max
OS: Win 10 Pro x64
I ran out of ideas so you guys are my last resort. For the past couple of days I have been trying to figure out the overheating of my I7 14700KF processor, but whatever I do I can't seem to sort this out. My train of thoughts might jump from one idea to another so forgive me and please bear with me. I know 13th/14th gen had issues with the microcode and the power limits, for a while i ran with the stock bios settings but switched to the Intel recommended settings as soon as i could, within a week or so, but i don't know whether my CPU was affected by this or not. I have not seen any major issues with it, i mainly play CS2 and EFT, where i get plenty of fps i would say and office tasks are no issue with this build. Since i've built this PC i noticed that the temps were a little to high but everyone on the net said that 13th&14th gen ran hot so i just thought that it was somewhat normal. At the moment when i was commissioning the PC i ran some stress tests and temps were reaching high 90C if i recall correctly, but at that time i was running 2 sticks of RAM. Since then i've "upgraded" to 4 sticks of RAM, 32GB was a bit on the low side considering Tarkov's high need of memory and the fact that i was also keeping Discord and other chome based apps which take lots of RAM space. The setup was not stable out of the box when enabling the XMP profile, 6400MHz is just too much to ask for, so i settled for 6200MHz but also had to do some voltage tweeking in order to run stable at this freq. Anyhow everything was fine the temps were still a bit high while gaming (85C-95C) but never had any issues. I remember I used Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for the CPU power limits, i'm not sure i did the bios tweeking but i probably did. In order to use the tool, VBS has to be disabled and it was, until i decided i wanted to go back to FACEIT, where in order to use their anticheat you have to enable VBS, which of course made the tool unusable and so the power limits not imposed in the system. A few mounths have passed without me noticing anything, no real issues, there were issues but manly due to poor optimisations of the games i've played, until a few days ago a friend of mine bought Tarkov and had issues running it, his CPU usage was 30/40% but had low FPS so i wanted to check how my system was doing and that's when i noticed i was almost always running at 95-100C which freaked me out. I closed everyting and opened MSI Afterburner and guess what... 70C while idleing on desktop... I panicked, with no clue as to why is this happening. I work in engineering so i imediatly started to rule out the causes,
- I thought about bad install of the contact frame, tried to get a torque wrench/screwdriver but no available tool is capable of measuring 6cNm specified by Thermal Grizzly. I have reseated the CPU and frame 2 times, screwing by holding the tool with 2 fingers until you cant torqe it anymore than adding 90 degrees as Der8auer mentioned. This did not fix it
I checked the AIO Pump it seems to be working. The fan speed and pump speed are liked by wire, i was going to disconnect them and connect them separately to the MBO but i din't get the chance, but still this would not really affect the temps just the control. They all run constantly at 3200RPM, I measured the temperature with a IR Thermometer, while CPU at full load (90-100C) the output of the pup is sitting at 40C with the input at 30C with arround 26/27C ambient temp. This did not fix it.
I checked the thermal paste aplication, it was ok, reaplied thermal paste, used only Thermal Grizzly Krionaut. This did not fix it.
I cheked the temps on the MBO with the IR sensor, it was sitting at 50C, even when measuring directly the contact frame i never saw more than 50C.
There is no discussion about ariflow, i have a total of 7 fans in the case and now i'm running with no side panels and no filters and the temps are still high.
I am really out of ideeas. If you guys think of something please let me know. I also attached some pictures with the system and a screenshot from HWInfo. Looking forward to your answear and thank you for your time.
