Hey my Ryzen 5 2600x is running hotter than it should be and doing nothing, what's wrong? Please fix this!
Hey my Ryzen 5 2600x is running hotter than it should be and doing nothing, what's wrong? Please fix this!
My CPU is getting too hot when I play games for more than three hours. It used to run at the base speed, but now it's running at a faster 4.00 GHz. Here are my details: I have a B550 Tomahawk motherboard, a Ryzen 2600x processor, G.Skill Ripjaw RAM, MSI Armor OC graphics card, and a 500 gigabyte SSD. I turned off the CPU's game boost feature to help things out. Please help me fix this issue.
Here is a speed bump that reaches 4.2GHz automatically. The CPU can get hot easily, but it will only boost to the highest level your cooler can handle. If the temperature gets too high, the system will lower the speed on its own once the heat cools down. Just let it run and keep things inside normal limits set by the maker.
If you don't want this feature or wish to cut it short:
1. Go into the BIOS settings.
2. Find the Precision Boost (also known as AMD Turbo Core) part of the menu.
3. Change its multiplier down to lower levels.
The speed goes up to 4.2GHz automatically. The CPU gets hot easily, so this feature only works if your cooler can handle the heat. If the temperature gets too high, it will turn down the boost on its own when things cool off. Just let it work normally and follow the rules set by the maker about how hot things get. If you don't want speed or want to stop it, change that setting in the BIOS to lower the frequency for Precision Boost (also known as AMD Turbo Core, or the performance boost).
Dragon Center usually causes the most problems because it changes system settings too much. It forces performance even when you aren't playing games, which makes your computer get too hot. If you don't use Dragon Center or delete it entirely, and if Windows is set to Balanced power mode instead of Performance, that will help a lot. You should also check Ryzen Master just to see what's going on with your PC.
When the game crashes, does Windows crash too and do I have to restart my PC? Im asking because if I start HWiNFO Sensors Only, then start the Game and go play, and after 3 hours game crash (but only the game), HWiNFO should have the MAX temp reading value saved on the MAX column. So it is not hard to see if its 80C or something else. And while you use HWinfo Whats the temp reading of the GPU after the game crash?, GPU is down there if you scroll down with your mouse. Perhaps both CPU and GPu gets too hot cause you may not have good airflow on your case? Also as veolictyg4 explained PB (Presicion Bost PB), which is like Intel's Turbo Boost, will boost your Ryzen CPU so it can reach 4.2GHz on 1 core and probably around 4.0GHz on all cores loads. Thats a standard behavior for Ryzen, like it is a for Intel CPUs with Turbo Boost. Ryzen 2600X has a base clock of 3600MHz and 1 core boost speed of 4.2Ghz. You can disable PB if you don't like it. Just like velocityg4 wrote. Cheers