Blizzard my PC is overheating and I can’t currently use the anniversary buff. So I’d like you to extend it a week or so for me so I can level a couple of alts. Thanks in advance.
Seriously, anyone have any advice. The airflow is good, all fans are working, it’s not dirty. Someone said something about thermal paste. Would taking a tabletop fan and opening the side work?
First, try reducing graphics settings.
Blowing cold air might work depending on your case.
I’ve lowered graphics, it’s sitting at around 85-90 just idling. I did correct the title to CPU and not GPU.
it might. but if opening up the side does work, the air flow of the case is prob not good.
Thermal paste may fix the issue assuming that was the problem.
if you are using a liquid cooled system there could be other problems.
lowering graphics settings prob wont fix a CPU over heating but down clocking the CPU will especially if you had been over clocking it
My advice is:
Ask this question on the Technical forum, where you are more likely to get technical responses relative to your specific situation.
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I wasn’t overclocking. Just running it however it came. I did change the max power or whatever to 99%. It’s a Ryzen 5 3600, did I just get a junk PC?
They can also edit the original post and change it to that sub-forum without having to create a new one.
The people there are the right ones to ask. Really good information to be learned just reading through the posts.
that depends. was it over heating before or is it always over heating since you got it?
the cpu fan might be insufficient.
99% should prevent any over clocking but going lower may yet provide better performance. (slower clock speed but no throttling so better performance)
i dont think the Ryzen 5 3600 is insufficient for wow but a quick google search finds that 80-90 degrees under load is a known issue with the cpu. it should be fine so long as its not actually causing problems. the stated concussion is the stock fan is not sufficient under load to keep the temp down
It just started 2 days ago. And it’s overheating without wow running, even just browsing online.
i aslo notice the CPU use increase since the 9.1.5
If the fans are all working, it’s probably bad thermal paste or a bad fan profile in your BIOS or with various fan profile softwares in Windows. If you’re water cooling your CPU, make sure the pump is working and that you have fluid in it.
This is all assuming you didn’t use any overclocking softwares.
Bad idea. It probably won’t do much for cooling, and opening the side changes the airflow across the parts. There is a reason the fans are situated the way they are and leaving it open would mess with that.
There is a small amount of thermal paste between your CPU and the fan that keeps it cool. Sometimes, this paste breaks down and doesn’t do its job anymore. You’ll need to carefully remove the fan, clean off the old paste from the CPU and the fan, and apply a fresh bead.
There’s no guarantee this will work, but it’s a solid place to start.
I have exact same CPU and I also was having issues with over heating, it seems in the bios of AMD mother board there is problem with over voltage of the CPU. After I went into to the over clocking settings>advanced and set my max temp for 85 I never had another problem.
Some will tell you to under volt the CPU, don’t, let the mother board do it by setting a max temp. You can search for it and find many posts on it. Good luck!
might not be the cpu fan. i would start looking at NorthBridge fan / heatsink. see if fan is running or if heatsink is missing or loose
Where did you find the overclock settings at?
I need your mother board make and model number.
Seems everybody has missed this post. If it’s overheating while essentially doing nothing and it just suddenly started doing it while all the fans are working I’d put this issue as either the CPU heatsink or a really buggy background program.
If this is a prebuilt PC one of the “helpful” programs builders bloat on these systems may have gone rogue. Since you say it does this all the time you can check for this by just opening the Task Manager and see if there’s a program eating all the CPU time when it’s supposed to be idle. In my experience the crap HP dumps on their systems is notoriously bad about this and is why it should all be uninstalled since none of it is useful and is basically spyware.
If the fan on the CPU heatsink is working and not dirty you can also check the heatsink itself to make sure it isn’t loose. Thermal paste can hold a loose heatsink in place for sometime before it finally gives and lets it shift just enough to lose proper contact.
Computers haven’t had a Northbridge in sometime. That chips functions are built in to the CPU.
northbridge/southbridge. i see we are getting technical. no matter. check heatsink/fan on top of where chipset is located.
I adjusted power plan to 90% and haven’t had any issues since.
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