So my 13th gen i9 13900k with CORSAIR ICUE H150i ELITE 360mm goes straight to thermal throttling from the PC not being on all day to cutting it on and literally within 1 second of starting a benchmark or stress test. Is this normal?
So my 13th gen i9 13900k with CORSAIR ICUE H150i ELITE 360mm goes straight to thermal throttling from the PC not being on all day to cutting it on and literally within 1 second of starting a benchmark or stress test. Is this normal?
Welcome to Intel 13th Gen my friend, not just any old 13th Gen either, but the hottest consumer CPU that has ever been on the market. This is literally how they are out of the box and it is normal, as long as you’ve made a reasonable attempt to cool it appropriately, which you have by getting a 360mm AIO, then you’ve done your part.
There is of course other ways to reduce temps like undervolting, reducing power limits, disabling multi core enhancement etc, and ideally you should aim to acheive the current performance or more, but trying to get that max temp into the 90’s and no thermal throttle if possible.
But if all you do is gaming, no massive video exports or compression/decompression and so on, then you’ll be fine.
Ok thank you! I do use it for video editing as well, I do a lot of 4k stacked videos but I haven’t really had any issues with it then. Usually the only issue is some screen lagging/stuttering while gaming.