TL;DR cpu too hot even on low settings, how do I keep it cool?
Guess this is a more general than only wow related issue, but getting started here shouldn’t hurt.
Got a new desktop, HP victus, nvidia rtx 3050 oem,
i5-12400F 2.50 GHz core, 16gb ram.
It’s a small/medium case, with a cold air intake on the side, open and clean.
Didn’t check cooling paste yet if there was a manufacturing flaw, didn’t even bother opening it yet because of warranty bs etc. Should be all fine, smell nothing.
Previous pc lasted like 8 years and had a meltdown, so this new one going way over my comfort zone heatwise is just stressing me out.
Running one game with 2 tabs open in chrome shouldn’t blast the cpu over 50*C right?
I mean I’ve put wow on low settings, view distance 5, details 4, clutter 3,
everything else across the board low low low. And I’m alone in a town with nobody near me no action no combat, and cpu is still going at 50C idle.
In a bg it goes above 60C.
My cpu utilization is only at 2% and still temp over 45C.
Gpu utilization is only at 40% and at a steady 30-35C.
Win11 everything up to date same with nvidia drivers.
I just don’t get it.
Same with OW2 and Path of Exile, which really heats the cpu up even on ultra low settings idle. I don’t get it.
I googled so much and most being about “optimization”, and here’s the conflict.
What others see as “optimizing their pc” is getting as much fps as possible.
That’s the opposite of what I want… I do NOT want to stress my cpu. I want as little stress on my cpu as possible and have it last as long as possible.
I’m totally fine with playing games on low settings, with only 60fps, that’s really far beyond what I need. I can’t understand people that cry when they can’t get steady 200fps.
So I’ve been playing around with some guides, going into the wow.exe launch options, advanced, and adjusting certain values. Should I reset these, or set to something specific?
I used my Nvidia control center to adjust program specific settings, limit fps to 80, background 30. Barely helps.
What about vertical sync, on or off? I got a 144hz 1920x 1080 screen.
Tried both, didn’t notice any change.
Should I turn on hardware acceleration, how do you do it for wow?
Shouldn’t this help offload cpu work to other parts?
I found graphic options in the windows native settings where you can select “low power use” for selected games. What’s the priority here?
Do the nvidia control settings override windows graphic settings?
If it’s all normal to run games while the cpu burns at +60C semi idle, fine,
but I much rather have it idle at 30C and go no higher than 50*C under stress, and that’s kinda the picture I got from what I have read.