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?
You should lower the watts to 253 in your Bios mostly it’s. Opened and takes up to 350 watts and then gets immediately in thermo throtteling. And as well I used to reduce even more degrees about 8-15 lower with the thermal Grizzly CPU contact frame it’s about 50$ but you can find it on Amazon for about 10-20$ and it does the same ! Clean your old thermal paste with alcoholic pads and put as a X form new thermal paste on the CPU and in the middle of the X the most of it so there is enough paste to connect the cooler to cpu !
What’s your cooler?
H150I aio it’s a 360mm Corsair aio
I don’t think it’s the problem the CPU is pulling 312 watts of power so it can cool 312 watts
H150I aio it’s a 360mm Corsair aio
I don’t think it’s the problem the CPU is pulling 312 watts of power so it can cool 312 watts
Its a stress test… it is normal. You want to see how good your cpu is so it uses everything it has. And 100c with full load is normal.
Undervolt?
My 12700f hits 155W under full load with a tiny undervolt and it hits 80 degrees Celsius with a 240mm AIO…
300+ Watts must be a very hard to cool.
Yep. That’s how it is. i9-13900k, the impossible chip.
I lowered my long range power to 225w, and short range to 253w, and that keeps it below 100C 99% of the time. Also replaces the Noctua DH-15 with an AIO and added three pwm fans, none of which really helped, and just made my computer noisier. Dropping the power was the main fix. I’m not over clocking either.
Why they sell a chip like this is beyond me.Make sure disable Multi-Core Enhancements, set tdp1: 125w & tdp2: 253w in BIOS. Also, it is worth trying to use Kryosheet for CPU.
undervolt it! Got my 13700k from 300 watts to 200!!
Is this normal?
CPU itself has almost zero thermal capacitance so there’s nothing surprising here.
Well 300W package power is going to do something
Man look at your TDP , have you messed up voltage settings? please factory reset bios and everything, uninstall XTU and retry!
TDP? And I tried to overclock it once with XTU and it crashed immediately so I made sure that was back to factory and I’ve been having other issues with lagging/stuttering while gaming so I went into the BIOS and factory reset it just to make sure and it was all the factory settings. I do have MSI Afterburner installed but I don’t use it.
Mark my words, never ever use intel XTU for overclocking, it just creates and implements the wrong voltage settings, always use BIOS for overclocking. Thats what happened here im sure, intel XTU overclocking will be still there, your processor is drawing 310w of power, just compare it with other fellows by a simple search! reinstall XTU, remove any profile or setting implementation by the software, completely uninstall it and go to BIOS for manual voltage ofset.
I mean my 14900k draws 300+w stock settings so a 13900k doing the same is normal
Spent 2mons going back and forth with intels engineers. Specs, diags, even pics with fan orientations. All for it’s “working as intended.” Full send, then we get the next “top of the line” chip and the cycle continues 😂
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.
PL2 in the BIOS is likely set to Unlimited, which will allow the processor to ramp up your TDP as much as it can until it thermal throttles. I can’t speak for your specific board, but a lot of manufacturers seem to be setting this as the default setting. It was on mine. Go into your BIOS, find PL2 and set it to the Intel-recommended 253W. That will allow you to hit the max stock frequencies without immediately hitting 100C.
Here to confirm this, my motherboard defaults to PL1=PL2=4096W. The manufacturer didn’t even add the option to adjust the power limit from that until I had owned it for over a month as well. My 13700k spikes up to 380W and settles at 350-360W at 100C under load if I don’t manually set a power limit.
Mine is set to 4096, but it won’t let me change it. It says Auto and has no option to change it. Is there a different setting I change to unlock it? Basically everything in my BIOS is set to AUTO. Is it bad to use AI optimized?
Pretty normal. It’s basically impossible to cool 312W without throttling.