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Clean dust from case. Make sure fans/cooling working. Check cpu paste if been a while. Move computer to cooler spot.

Your PC wanted you to stop playing genshin

The CPU is overclocked or operating in boost mode with a cooler insufficient to handle the higher clock speeds.

The pump may have died.

The pump or radiator fans may have become disconnected from the motherboard.

The radiator fans may have stopped working, or the motherboard may not be controlling them correctly.

There may be a coolant leak.

The radiator fans or the PC case may not be providing sufficient airflow due to excessive dust accumulation.

There may be excessive air buildup around the pump impeller. Any air in the system should be located within the radiator.

The pump impeller may be producing cavitation, although doubtful.

The pump may have come loose from the motherboard leaving a slight gap between the pump and CPU heat transfer surfaces.

The CPU may be carrying all or most of the load that should be assigned to a dedicated GPU. Make sure your dedicated GPU is being used rather than the CPU's integrated graphics.

It's excessively hot or hotter than usual where your PC is located.

Your CPU is being used by the game or some other app to mine bit coins.

CPU intensive background processes may be running at the same time that you're paying the game.

thats hot stuff

I've also been playing Genshin. I am fairly new!

But on to the topic- People already mentioned changing thermal paste, you are supposed to do that every few years or so, and even more often on laptops.

Another thing to make sure to do is to open up your task manager, and see what programs are eating your CPU. Make sure there is no fishy looking programs running. Malware can cause high usage.

It's why AIO sounds like "Uh-oh"...

Oprindeligt skrevet af TV-MA:

This has never happened to me in all my years of PC gaming (which isn't a lot to be fair) but yesterday, my CPU overheated and shut off playing Genshin. Concerning yes, but not a lot of info to go off of.

I just got done playing TF2 today and my CPU cores max was 92c (source: HWMonitor). That's not enough to shut itself off but still pretty hot. I understand a problem like this has a lot of variables but I'm still gunna reach out for help. I do use an AIO cooler for my CPU which I've heard you need to replace every couple years.

If it matters, I have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core processor and a Corsair AIO I believe.

Yeah, that *would* need help; I'd say ASAP check your vent systems for your machine, and go on from there to find out what operations it has going on... that can *really* mess up your machine big time.
Though, Steam functions as a personal library, you lose the machine, you do NOT necessarily lose your games; the two are different... doubt me? Ask Steam support; they are the same folks who informed me on that about a slightly different issue when I sort of broached the topic.

First off, how far from the usual mark is this? Do you have actual data on your expected temps under load in both stress tests and practical applications? If you're 20-30C+ off a known baseline, that would most strongly indicate a failing AIO unit. If you don't have that information, or if the difference to thermal cutoff is within 10C or so, that more likely indicates a systemic issue rather than one significant point of failure.

So I'm going to assume the latter case for the rest of this post, because that's a more difficult issue to solve. If you can determine that this is a sudden significant shift, all indications point to replacing that CPU cooler as your best solution, and that should be the end of it right then and there.


Now, this can be time-consuming and fiddly, but I would recommend doing a full circulation pressure test of your build. In fact, everyone should do this, though most don't. So many systems run above where they should thermally due to mediocre pressure loops. People may never detect it because it isn't *enough* of an issue to throttle or shut off, but that doesn't mean it can't be significantly improved. Sometimes, literally flipping one case fan can drop temps 30C - I had to do this in my own system at one point, when modern GPUs became so enormous that they cut my case loop in half.

I'm not going to insert myself in the morass of conflicting opinions of smoke vs vapor vs paper strips vs thermal imaging...all have merits. But frankly, if you want to test a case loop, onboard temp monitors and an hour or two of procedural testing of fan configuration is all you need. You *do not* necessarily have to reverse, move, or add any case fans; fan power curves alone can often solve the issue.

AIOs are great for venting heat from the component they are attached to, but they have two primary risks:

1. If the intake is insufficient, the air that the radiator pulls through will already be hot, thus neutering the radiator.
   
2. If the exhaust is lacking, the AIO will create a pool of hot air around itself, which then indirectly creates the issue of point #1.

Usually only one of the above issues will be at play; use your judgment as to which is most likely given your case configuration.


If you really can't figure it out and continue to have issues, yeah take this to hardware - or better yet, go straight to somewhere full of professionals and enthusiasts like Tom's.

If your CPU is reaching 92℃ in TF2 that would imply your cooler is doing next to nothing

Could be the cooler or the thermal paste, still the folks at the hardware subforum should be able to help you more. Else like @OoOoOoooOOoOoogle said, the Tom's Hardware forum or a local professional should be able to help you the most & they're very likely able to find a solution.

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Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Oprindeligt skrevet af Talby:

It's why AIO sounds like "Uh-oh"...

Yeah, after my last system that used an AIO, I switched back to air cooling. It's far easier to see the fans working and to change the thermal paste when needed.

When I converted my old system to the household budgeting PC, I put the stock cooler back on it after I found the AIO was half empty. NO idea where that coolant went...