No idea how but Patch 11.1 has been overheating and crashing my PC just since the raid opened on Tuesday.
Friday and Saturday (2/28 and 3/1) I played 14 hours of WoW each day with no issues. Same for Sunday afternoon and Monday evening (shorter stints). Tuesday, my PC just up and died about 10 minutes after getting into WoW. It looks like the CPU overheated. I fiddled with some fan and liquid cooler settings and tried again. The same thing happened tonight. If I get into WoW, the CPU overheats and kills the PC within 15 minutes. If I don’t, the CPU doesn’t crack 100 degF.
I was just running around Undermine and Dornogal. No instances. No raiding.
You’re liquid cooling and overheating? Are you using an AIO? How long have you had it? It’s close to a 13 year old processor, have you ever repasted it?
my 2nd pc is 10 yrs old and i can benchmark it with no issues, come to wow and its a disaster.
my new rig which is ran off of a i7 - 10 series with liquid and 2 - 3070ti’s and has the same issues here and there. its the games coding. Some ppls pc’s may be the issues but some are not! i cant remember who it was tested out a new pc build with dual 40 series GPU’s and a i9 cpu vs a i5 almost identical set up just different cpu / mobo and 1 ran just fine and the other ran like sheet. so again it comes down to the game and their coding on how its written. The TWW patch since last summer has been a nightmare for new PC’s and their servers cant handle the load either.
Even if the game’s coding was putting 100% load on all cpu cores, which it’s not, that really should be something liquid cooling can handle. My i7 9700k will top out at 86c in a prime95 torture test while drawing 170 watts at ~1.25v, and I’m air cooling. So even if the game were doing the equivalent of prime 95, which is not even going to come close, a properly built pc should be able to handle it, especially one that’s got an aio.
I’m not exactly clear which of two possible issues are happening - or perhaps both are.
Are you running software to log CPU temps? HWMonitor is good for that. If your CPU was to hit its max temp, it would throttle itself. A telltale sign of that is if performance tanks, but your computer would still continue to run. If that’s the case, then it would be worth looking at the cooling - dust clogging radiator fins and fans, giving the radiator a shake to see if there’s a lot of air in the system, or perhaps the pump died. If you’ve had that cooler in there for more than 4-5 years, it’s a very real possibility.
If your computer is just suddenly powering off like you pulled the power cord out of the wall, that’s almost certainly a sign of your power supply hitting OCP (over current protection). If that’s what’s happening, you’d want to see if you have a component suddenly drawing more power than expected, and possibly replacing the power supply
Do you have any kind of CPU booster or auto tuner enabled?
Just a shot in the dark here…but
Sounds like you’ve got a couple cores underperforming and when they get boosted they overheat.
Try limiting your CPU to just it’s rated speed for all cores. Might need to step down 100Hz at a time under it’s rated speed to get it stable. So if it’s rated 4GHz and it’s overheating, try capping all cores to 4Ghz, is that doesn’t work then cap it cap 3.9Ghz and so on. Keep stepping down until you hit the speed all cores will run stable at.
Disable all CPU boosters and auto-tuners. That extra 100Hz-200Hz isn’t going to make any difference in the real world. It might, and it’s a big might, get you a few extra points on a benchmark score and that’s it.
I say this cuz I have an AMD CPU and it’s doing this. So I use MSI center to cap all cores at 3.9GHz.
If you are interested do a internet search for “CPU Binning” and see why not all CPUs can run at their rated speeds.
If you are using a AIO they do fail . Depending on what kind between 3 to 5 years they begin having issues.
An all-in-one (AIO) cooler can last between five and ten years. However, factors like heat, humidity, and evaporation can affect its lifespan.
Factors affecting lifespan
Heat and humidity: Extreme heat or humidity can cause premature wear.
Evaporation: Sealed AIO coolers are not completely sealed from the environment, so evaporation can occur.
Age: AIOs may start to show their age within one or two years.