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Badgeronpc

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Il be honest, I haven't really got much data from before this heat wave, but I noticed last night while playing Starfield that my cpu package was peaking at 100 degrees. I switched off, and came back this morning and my pc is idling at around 50. And I know it wasn't doing this just a few weeks ago. It was definitely closer to 40.

When playing Starfield, my Cpu was sitting around 3% load by iCUE's numbers, and 40 percent utilisation by NVIDIA's. Sitting around 85 degrees with peaks upto 100.

Two screenshots attached, one is at idle. The other is after playing Starfield for around 10 minutes.

When this damn heatwave goes away I'm gonna look further into it. My system currently has 5 intake and 1 exhaust fans. Two intakes are mounted to my AIO rad.
 

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B4zookaw

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Sounds a bit unbalanced air flow wise, if you have 5 intake and just one exhaust. I'm surprised AIO is set to intake, it's normally exhaust, at the top.

I'd use HWInfo over iCUE to get system stats. Not sure why you need icue running if you don't have Corsair cooling. But if the peak load on CPU was 16%, 100C temp does seem very high. Same for 12% load on GPU, but hard to know if both of the load highs are just on the part of the graph icue is currently showing, or all time.

Might be worthwhile rerunning the same 10 min starfield gameplay with NWInfo running instead of icue.
 
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Badgeronpc

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Martinr36 said:
It's a lot easier if you copy
B4zookaw said:
Sounds a bit unbalanced air flow wise, if you have 5 intake and just one exhaust. I'm surprised AIO is set to intake, it's normally exhaust, at the top.

I'd use HWInfo over iCUE to get system stats. Not sure why you need icue running if you don't have Corsair cooling. But if the peak load on CPU was 16%, 100C temp does seem very high. Same for 12% load on GPU, but hard to know if both of the load highs are just on the part of the graph icue is currently showing, or all time.

Might be worthwhile rerunning the same 10 min starfield gameplay with NWInfo running instead of icue.
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I use corsair peripherals so that's just what I had open. Il try NwInfo, if the cooler has failed what would my options be? Am I liable or it it a PCS problem? Obviously the system was purchased from them.
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B4zookaw

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If it's still under warranty, PCS will replace for free. If not, you'll have to pay for a replacement.
 
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Badgeronpc said:
Norton, it was pre installed so just went with it.
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Yeah Norton is basically Malware itself, Windows Defender is free with Windows and is just as good if not better than pretty much any paid consumer market AV's

I'd uninstall Norton ASAP using Nortons own uninstallation tool, it wont actually go away without using their own tool.
 
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Steveyg said:
Yeah Norton is basically Malware itself, Windows Defender is free with Windows and is just as good if not better than pretty much any paid consumer market AV's

I'd uninstall Norton ASAP using Nortons own uninstallation tool, it wont actually go away without using their own tool.
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I knew it wasn't the best thing going, and have had to neuter it slightly as it was interfering with things causing issues in games. But if Defender is as good as you say il jump on that right now
 
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