Speaking for my girlfriend, here’s what I’d say:
Speaking for my girlfriend, here’s what I’d say:
Over the past couple of months we've been working to lower the temperatures on her i5 11400. When she purchased the PC from NewEgg earlier this year it came with a small fan from Cooler Master. Her temperatures usually exceed 70°C at idle, and a Cinebench test pushes them to 95+ causing the CPU to slow down. We purchased an inexpensive Chinese cooler about two months ago and after installing it, noticed her temps remained unchanged. We removed the cooler, replaced the motherboard, and reattached the cooler again—still no improvement. We returned the cooler for a refund, thinking it was defective and reused the original one. Despite this, her temperatures stayed the same. Today we tried a Deepcool Gammaxx L240 A-RGB and the temperatures matched previous readings with the other coolers. What I’m confused about is that even when she keeps the BIOS enabled, the CPU temperature only shows 35°C. As a final option, we had her disconnect the motherboard battery to see if that would affect things. I’m still unsure what’s going on. It seems the coolers themselves aren’t the issue anymore. Her mounting points appear secure according to the specs: Asus Prime-B560M-A AC i5 11400 16GB RAM, NVMe SSD, RTX 3060, Asus Dual.
Check the operating system, open Task Manager and verify if any process is consuming excessive CPU resources.
Welcome to the 11th generation Intel lineup. They're delivering powerful CPUs, with the 95C being a typical choice. The focus isn't on fixing faulty chips or coolers, but rather adjusting your expectations for these high-performance Intel processors.
Was using Afterburner but i thought of that and got her to download HWInfo64 and that reporting the same temps. there's nothing running beyond 'typical gamer' stuff. Couple of launchers a little RGB software. Stuff of that ilk.
I plan to get her to make an 'OTG' Windows boot stick to see if it works.
I was just thinking the same things in this discussion. CB after all is going to try to keep the CPU running as smoothly as possible! Did you check the fan curves in both BIOS and Windows? Honestly, it makes sense that the chip gets hotter in CB compared to BIOS—it’s not too surprising. I think it’s probably some kind of turbo boost or automatic power limit feature, which you can adjust in BIOS. This is something the Intel team often tweaks, it’s not a problem, just a bit annoying. Luckily, it can be fixed (though I’m not sure how to do it). My last Intel was a Pentium 1!