7900X huge (?) temps

cassiopei1337

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Hello there.
So recently (like a few weeks ago) I bought my 7900X and still can't handle it's temps.
It is overclocked, at 4.7 with 1.21V and the perfomance is great, but the temp... it worries me.
I use Be quiet Silent Loop 240mm as a cooling and the case is Be quiet Dark Base Pro 900, the problems is that while IDLEing cpu is somewhere at 55 degrees. Moreover, it jumps up to 70-80 when I start some program or even open a new tab in google chrome. So there is no stable temp for my CPU - it jumps randomly even with low % of utilization which is kinda weird. In games it goes up for like 70-75 degrees, which is a little bit high aswell. Can't say that 70-75 in games is that much, but whats wrong with idle temps and this random jumps? Is that okay? And is there any way to deal with it without delidding?

ps While typing it and installing new Shadow of War, I got 2 cores max temp of 91c, and my Tj offset is set to 8 which means 100-8=92. I mean, I'm not even doing anything - just installing and typing, should it be SO HOT?
 
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People are having trouble controlling the temps of the bigger Kaby Lake-E CPUs at stock let alone overclocked, the thermal compound under the IHS is utter crap. Also, a 240mm AIO probably isn't a big enough cooler to really OC that CPU, it puts off A LOT of heat once you start cranking up the voltage even a little. If you're not willing to delid it yourself (which I would 100% not be willing to do myself on that processor even though I've delidded a few 115x cpus) I'd be a little more conservative with your OC.
People are having trouble controlling the temps of the bigger Kaby Lake-E CPUs at stock let alone overclocked, the thermal compound under the IHS is utter crap. Also, a 240mm AIO probably isn't a big enough cooler to really OC that CPU, it puts off A LOT of heat once you start cranking up the voltage even a little. If you're not willing to delid it yourself (which I would 100% not be willing to do myself on that processor even though I've delidded a few 115x cpus) I'd be a little more conservative with your OC.
 
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