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Slavius

I never had issues with temperatures. (the last one I remember was on P4 Prescott Extreme Edition I had about 10 years ago?)

Usually high temperatures arise from few factors:

  • bad chip design - do your research and buy CPU that's not a reversed nuclear powerplant
  • bad thermal paste - all chip manufacturer provided pastes are bad. Buy silver based thermal paste for $5 and save yourself hassles later
  • bad radiator/cooler - stock coolers (maybe apart from Zen's Ryzen and Threadripper) are probably designed to run in idle desktops? Not sure why they include a piece of aluminum thrash with a several hundreds of dollars worth of CPU chip. A decent cooler can cool a cpu even on low RPM.

And yes, I do crypto mining and gaming with 2 VGAs in SLI with temps below 55 with air cooling only (in summer).

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Moriah Maney

Please consider that I already know this information and do not need you to explain something to me that I am incredibly knowledgeable in. Thanks very much.

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Slavius

I was not targeting you with my comment.

We're not here alone. Someone reading might find the information useful.

Many people do not know this and then they are wondering why's their CPUs thermal throtling and they get poor performance even tho they run latest high-end models.

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Moriah Maney

Fair point! As that wasn't indicated in the previous comment I did not read it that way and I apologize. Thanks!

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Mike Ekkel

To be fair: It does come across as if it's targeting OP. That's how I read it, at least. This is mainly because you mention that you specifically don't have issues with air cooling and that you apparently do crypto mining with air cooling in summer (which seems like information that wasn't really necessary).

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Slavius

The irrelevant information about crypto mining should make it obvious I was not replying to anything the same way as I was trying to give advice how to deal with temperature problems, which she clearly never mentioned. I just wanted to share my 5c with my 30 years of experience with computers.

I apologize if I didn't make myself clear enough.