Hi guys, I have a stock fan on my 3.60 gigahertz Intel 12th Gen Core i7-12700KF and Star trek Armada 2 is probably the newest game I can play for any length of time without overheating. The witcher 3
over heats on the splash screen. I would rather not get a fan with a back brace as I dont want to lift the motherboard and IDK what case I have though the motherboard is a Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. PRO H610M-E DDR4 (MS-7D48) 2.0
Cheers in advance
FTI
You can be cool, or you can be nasty, but as soon as you are one, you are not the other.
FTI
Over-heating on a splash screen usually means the frame rate is unlimited and effectively the fps is allowed to go through the roof on simple screens. You can cap fps through system and graphics card settings. That tends to affect gpus more than cpus though.
How new is your system? You might have a hardware issue that could be resolved under RMA (eg faulty heatsink/water cooler-cpu bond via thermal paste, poor heat sink/water cooler clamping, poor airflow design around the cpu and heat sink, etc).
If your system is older then check that fans, grills and heat sinks are not hampered by dust build-up, and that the layout of cables etc and clearances around the case allow air to enter, exit and and circulate where it is needed. (Earth your hands before messing about inside the case.) If a water cooler (and to a lesser extent a heat sink) then check it is working by seeing how warm the air shoved out by the cooler outlet fans feels when the system is stressed and how hard the fans are working. If the outlet air is not warm and the fans are not spooling up when the cpu is overheating then the whole cooling system isn't doing much good and a different fan won't change much.
Cheers for the quick re. System is a year old literally the stock CPU fan is shocking! All the cooling ability of an asthmatic mouse or retired pit pony Core temps are 50 at idle Im not even joking
Cheers in advance,
FTI
You can be cool, or you can be nasty, but as soon as you are one, you are not the other.
FTI
Free Trade Inn wrote: ↑Tue, 9. Dec 25, 18:39
Do they not require a back brace? Im trying to avoid lifting the motherboard.
The backplate of many cases does have a hole where the CPU is.
If you can open the side panel of the case from that side, you can see whether yours has,
i.e. whether you can put back brace through a hole without detaching the motherboard.
i7-2700kf pulls at least 190w at maximum usage. Might be higher. It doesn't come with a stock cooler.
Lga 1700 has a different fan hole spacing than older generations. So if you buy a fan you have to make sure it has the brackets for lga 1700. Some mainboards have two sets of holes so you can ~use your old fan but there might be a height difference between the cpus.
You can cap PL1 (non turbo power) and PL2 (turbo power) in the bios. This will limit the amount of power the cpu can pull and the heat.
The cpu pretty much requires a full size double fan tower. Even then it might max out at 190-210 w power draw before it overheats. It should be fine for gaming vs productivity that runs the cpu near max. Check if the case is wide enought to fit the tower in it. Side case fans etc...
If you move the pc a long distance remove the tower cooler top or you can wreck the mainboard with the tower jiggling back and forth.
The hole in the back of mainboard plate might not be totally lined up with the back of the cooler and you might have to loosen the screws on the mainboard. A flash light and a second person might be handy.
As above... who's "stock" do you mean - came with the CPU (which above and a search online says they didn't ship one), or it's a stock from another generation?
I'd also check whether you've got good quality thermal paste on, or any imperfections in the currently applied, but in light of the post you may simply have absolutely the wrong heatsink/fan for the CPU.
Bite the bullet - you may not want to remove the motherboard, but what is the fear behind that? Better to identify and try and overcome imo. It's not a complicated task (though you'll need thermal paste) and the benefits will be significant given your current predicament. I generally only go with Noctua fans, so obviously the links for reassurance are biased. Other manufacturers are available!
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