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- Mar 28, 2019
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- Gigabyte X299X Designare 10G
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- i9-10980XE
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- RX 580
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Hi Casey, first of all I want to thank for all your work. Built my hackintosh this last week and it was a smooth build and install thanks to you. My UAD Apollo has been working flawlessly, which was my main concern.
I would like to ask you about temps.
My build is using the 9900KS with a AOI Corsair H115i PRO all inside a Raidmax Delta Prime case.
The radiator is mounted in the front pushing hot air out. I've replaced the radiators fans to Noctua ones. And the original fans are on top of the case pulling air from the outside. And there's another fan in the back push air out.
But even though there are 5 fans running, my CPU goes to 100 celsius when benchmarking using Geekbench, Cinebench, and when running Folding@Home to help medicine. The fans runs faster, I've changed the fan curves in BIOS and they seem to follow the curve, but is not enough to prevent the CPU from getting to 100 celsius.
Is it normal? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you again.
There may also be an issue with mounting pressure.
Personally I just resolved some temperature issues with my Kraken X72. Turns out the standoffs included in the 1151 mounting kit are a tiny bit too high and thus prevent proper contact with the CPU heatspreader. It's enough to where cooling works but contact is not optimal and performance suffers.
I fixed this problem by adding a set of washers between the backplate and the motherboard, which increased pressure sufficiently.
I went from running in the high 90's to low 80's without changing anything else (this is with the processor at 5.1GHz all-core drawing about 200 Watts).
From your screenshot I see you're pulling about 170 Watts, which the cooler should be able to stomach, so if you've checked all other things already mentioned by Casey, mounting pressure would be my next guess.
Given that most AIOs are based on Asetek units, I suspect this may be your issue here as well.