Hello,
Today I went to do Rated Battlegrounds with my team and the strangest thing started happening. My CPU temperature would go up to 88-90 degrees which would cause thermal throttling and drop my FPS. Whenever I was dead and in grey screen, temperature would drop substantially down to 74 degrees, then backl up to 88-90 when alive again. This hasn’t been happening at all in the past. I have changed nothing, downloaded nothing. I literally played rated battlegrounds the night before and all was fine.
Edit: Seems like dungeons are affected too. But only when there’s other people there. It’s really odd, because when I stand in Orgrimmar next to a million people, temperature is still fine. 79-80 degrees.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
I have a Ryzen 9 5900X and my fan is a Dark Rock Pro 4.
Is anyone else experiencing anything like this at the moment? I have no clue waht it could possibly be. My CPU temperature is fine anywhere else in wow and in other games.
Check if all fans are spinning, then check if dust is not blocking airflow. If all is fine you will likely have to re-paste the CPU (and check if the cooler has good contact with the CPU IHS.
I checked. All fans are spinning, nothing is blocking airflow. I changed my entire cooling and thermal paste 2 months ago. It’s all brand new. If that were the problem, then I’d be getting thermal throttling all the time. Not only in instanced content. I went to the same dungeon solo and temperature didn’t exceed 75 degrees. I went into it with a group of people via group finder, and it shot up to 88-90 degrees. I don’t understand.
Run cinebench multi in loop and watch temperatures. If under higher load temps are to high then it’s something wrong with the cooler and how it’s installed.
I’m little late to the party here, but to underline what Sharknado said: this needs proper testing. Instanced content in WoW does have higher system load than basically idling in a town (even if that town is pretty crowded), but the temperatures mentioned here are well beyond what should be possible on a functional cooling setup.
On a more general note: applications/games don’t individually get to decide how hot hardware will run - that is mostly down to real-world physical factors, such as heat dissipation/displacement provided by the cooling setup. If any hardware runs into temperature ranges that trigger thermal throttling this unfortunately needs to be taken very seriously, and is never a good sign. -.-