Last two days, PC has been getting hot.
Normally playing WoW you can run it all day and put your hand at the back of the PC and it will be slightly warm.
But for the last two days the PC is getting hot over time to a point were even the fan starts up. Put your hand at the back it is hot.
The PC isn’t that old, so doubt it’s a component failure.
Memory leak maybe?
Without sounding arrogant. So please take this in a nice tone.
AMD systems run hot, you will expect 65-70°C temps under load
The graphics card should be in the 40-50°C range under load
Now that being said, when was last time you got a can of compressed air and your vacuum cleaner to the case ?
Power PC off and open side of case, turn vacuum on and blast the compressed air in there aiming directly at the fans on the GPU, the CPU and the case fans
Now that you have been assaulted by dust particles look inside the case for the big bits and use the vacuum on them
That will reduce the heat
Again not trying to teach to suck eggs just what all techs would do
Cleaning it out was the first thing I did yesterday. There was some dust but nothing excessive.
The system:
Intel i7-14700k
RAM 32 Gb
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070TI
Normally with dust build up you notice a gradual change.
At the moment with so little load, on this forum, you get cold air coming out at the back.
That your system gets hot is not saying that much. Try keeping track of the system resource usage when it happens. It wouldn’t surprise me that it’s WoW, but it can also be something else interfering (e.g., but not limited to, anti-malware software).
Memory leak is something, but that wouldn’t inherently heaten up your system. That comes from either a significant CPU load, GPU load, or a cooling system which is less effective than before.
Did you ever check the reported temperatures of the components?
Been no Windows updates of late, although most likely at some point a security update.
No it happens whilst playing WoW takes several hours. Have noticed it a bit near the garrison (not chromie time), but that doesn’t mean it is anything to do with it, as spending a fair bit of time in Draenor.
Not checked component temperatures as of yet, but as they are running cold atm (air wise) I’d be surprised if they’re at fault.
Well they won’t get hot if they are not under load 
Check the GPU load and temps, WoW can’t fully utilize the CPU.
Maybe you increased the resolution scale or something?
I might be blind here but I can’t see what the temperatures are exactly for GPU, CPU etc?
Whatever the issue is it only been the last two days.
I’ve not changed any of the graphic settings. Or any other settings.
I tend to run games less than what they can be run at. Prefer a quieter PC.
Also don’t use any 3rd party programs, so they can’t be an issue.
Plus, I had the PC built by a competent company, that I’d used several times in the past. So there should be no heat issues. Faulty component maybe, but I doubt it.
Memory leaks don’t cause an increase in CPU or GPU temps. They just cause your system to run out of memory.
Improper PC hygiene (cleaning, thermal paste, etc) causes temps to increase. As does runaway processes, eating CPU or GPU cycles. Or programs that are running in the background without your knowledge (malware cryptominers especially)
It’s pointless to try to guess what might be wrong or not if you for some reason keep refusing to post the load temperatures.
Exact specs of case, fans etc. are helpful as well
Still having terrible memory leaks however CPU activity is mostly reasonable (primarily speaking of Ray of Putrescence and two bosses in Manaforge). Stuff is bugged and terribly optimized left and right and fans fire off at random but temperature is under control and I don’t think Winter time has anything to do with how mild the metal is to touch.
Yes it is very very unoptimized, they are preparing for launch, and this bug+optimization will be handled in the next +3 months
I did try to fly in stormwind with lot of people, and noticed the micro stutter with loading assets (unoptimized), then memory leaks reported by Ultimutt
So all this unoptimized bugs give lot of additional unnecessary step, which in long run will make your PC more warm
unoptimized loading assets from SSD to RAM/VRAM; then when you have full RAM, it will swap from RAM/VRAM to SSD and back, so if you change zones, it will swap SSD<=>RAM like crazy after some hours of playing
here are some commands, which could help especially the maxFPS one
during Legion Remix, i needed to use 30FPS limit for raid Xavius, because otherwise my GPU load was 100% , they didn’t fix it at all
copy+paste these commands into in-game chat, one by one :
/console disableServerNagle 0
/console ResampleQuality 2
/console useTargetFPS 0
/console useMaxFPS 1
/console maxFPS 60
/console maxFPSBk 8
Thanks for that, you confirm what I already thought, that it is the game and not my system.
WoW runs normally for me at a constant 165 FPS.
So I can either try what you’ve said or go and play GW2 for 4 months giving them time to sort this mess out.
Edit:
I don’t play anything at 60 FPS as that would give me a headache, 30 FPS gives me one much quicker.
So anything around 85+ FPS tends to be ok.
If your computer gets overheated due to some software or game then it just shows your computer needs better cooling. WoW might have bugs causing increased load (personally I haven’t noticed anything like that), but the same result would likely happen in any software/game which uses more resources than what the cooling can handle.
Though like I said, it is impossible to know if your system is actually overheating without details of temperatures.
Memory leaks won’t cause overheating either - they will just crash the game.
So you are telling me a company that builds computers and has been around for a couple of decades doesn’t know how to cool PC’s?
Nope, I was just saying that there is no way for anyone of us to even guess if your computer is overheating or not since for some reason you are not providing information about thermals, fan and cooling configuration.
Companies can fail at cooling, either by mistake or by design - especially in small form factor like laptops, handhelds (for example my Dell laptop thermally throttles fairly quickly if I am using CPU heavily) but I doubt that is the case in yours since you are running desktop CPU.
14th gen Intel’s run pretty hot from what I remember but if the cooling is adequate it should not reach tempratures which cause thermal throttling - but like I said we don’t even know if it reaches such temperatures since you have not provided the information.
Likely your actual issue is bugs related to WoW and mostly nvidia hardware from what I have seen in posts - assuming you have poor performance n the game as that wasn’t very clear either since you mostly talked about thermals. There was also another recent Windows update which reportedly caused issues with nvidia hardware - no idea if that has been fixed or not.
Performance has not changed, just the heating issue and a few stutters.
Been a few days now, most likely a WoW update at the root of it. Seem to get them often now.
I’m not even running the system to what it can do, I tend to keep it low heat, low noise.
Where as normally the fan doesn’t kick in, in WoW now it does.
So from what I can gather that there is no actual issue since your system is not throttling - other than the fans being bit noisier?
Try to adjust fan curves - personally I am not fan of turning fans entirely off (other than the GPU fans which are turned off automatically unless adjusting settings manually). Big case fans at low RPM are pretty much inaudible unless your fans are crap but still move air quite well. Usually there is no need to have fans run at very high speeds either even if defaults mighjt be higher. I rather have CPU/GPU etc. run few degrees higher if I can keep fans quieter.
For me noisiest fan is from the GPU. Likely for you as well. Many GPUs have fairly conservative fan curves so they ramp up pretty quickly even if there might not be real risk of thermal throttling yet. You can always try adjusting that.
I don’t think we can help you here if you don’t tell us about what settings you are running WoW at and what the CPU/GPU load and the temps look like.
Please tell us the company name 
you can try /console maxFPS 90 or /console maxFPS 120 to make it easier for GPU