Hello,
CPU usage increases a lot in crowded places, especially in valdrakken, and this causes it to heat up. What should I do to reduce this?
Which CPU you are using? If you are using a powerful enough CPU for the game, then you better change the thermal paste and clean dust on CPU cooler if there’s any.
Sounds more like a hardware issue, remove dust and replace cpu paste might be needed here than anything. If you cant do that only way is to literally reduce the settings and hope it will help. But I put my finger on hardware here.
which cpu arer you uising, case? cooler? saying cpu is overheating is a bit vague. mine(i7 10700) used to touch 68c in shadowlands but i bought an arctic liquid freezer 2 240 and it never goes above 50 now.
i advice you to get a watercooling for it , mine dont even reach 48
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What temperatures are you talking about? Becuase anything below 80°C is just fine even if it’s not something you might be used to.
Because of this incident, I formatted the computer again, cleaning and renewing the paste, it is between 50-60 in empty areas, but as I said, it goes up to 90 degrees, especially in valdraken.
CPU 10700k
GPU RX6800xt
Liquid cooling Silverstone pf240
Check radiator for air bubbles, its a very common issue with liquid coolers, there are plenty of guides on youtube on how to fix it.
If the tubes to the radiator are on the top, try flipping it so the tubes go along the bottom.
Having the tubes at the top of the radiator can result in air pockets in the loop, causing very poor heat transfer.
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Check the idle temps. I have a 10900k @ 5.1GHz and the ingame temps are far lower than your 10700k with AIO or water. I would expect 90c in prime95 only with a 10900k overclocked to the maximum.
Mounting of the heatsink can be an issue but you need to troubleshoot. If the cooling system is a fault look to replace it. With rads they can be clogged with dust, a hoover can fix this issue. Also high temps can be a pump failure.
Never just leave overheating issues as they lead to failures in the long term.
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damn that sounds insane, how is the cooler mounted? is the cpu pump the highest point of the loop? check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwA7ygTJn0& for more info on that. were you getting high temps before or not? how old is the cooler?
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Wow is a very CPU bound game and in an area like Valdrakken which is both very busy and using the newer high quality graphics it is going to push a CPU very hard.
Modern CPUs have systems to regulate their temperatures so even if the cooling is an issue the CPU should throttle back to protect itself. It’s worth saying that according to intel the max temperature for a i7 is 100c so hitting 90 before throttling isn’t a huge surprise.
If you are using a water cooled setup I would suggest checking the temperatures in the cooling making sure that the temps exiting the radiator are significantly (ideally no more than 45c) lower than those going in to make sure you don’t have an issue with case air or water flow. As Aellas says do check that the radiator isn’t obstructed or clogged with dust and that the system has anough water in it.
I can’t seem to reproduce the CPU load you are explaining. When In Valdrakken I’m at around 1-2% Cpu load, and killing the rare Shas’ith on a populated shard had geforce experience report 1-2% again, and taskmanager report around 8-10% load. This is with graphics settings maxed out with a RTX3080.
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