High CPU Temperatur

[Metalhead38]

Hi,
I have a little issue,
When i play Horizon Remastered my Temperature of my CPU is between 81 and 86 degrees

Thats the only game where the CPU Temp is that high. Is that normal or can i change some Settings ingame to lower the Temperature?
I have max settings on without DLSS on 1440p res

Ryzen 9 5950X
Gforce RTX 4080 Super
64GB Ram

I have Watercooling installed but i dont know the name of the Components

[Ordisoftware]

Not only are the episodes of the Horizon saga with the Decima engine among the best optimized games that put little strain on the CPU and GPU compared to other games I seen, even low-end ones, and even the memory is super optimized, but there is no problem with this processor, depending on your cooling system it is quite normal: this CPU has a 90° Tjmax.

Before launching the game, you should increase the ventilation from quiet or medium to full for example, or change your fans to more efficient ones, and also make sure there is a good space around the tower in case of a desktop, but if it is a laptop you can't do anything without tinkering... That said and concretely, everything also depends on your entire setup, motherboard, GPU, ventirad, power supply, internal spaces, number of disks, etc.

Reaching 86° occasionally is not alarming in itself unless it is very continuous and exceeds 90°, in which case you really need to think about replacing the ventirad and perhaps the case fans or add some.

Regarding watercooling, I don't know much about it but you should probably upgrade if you have problems. Despite what I said this game is very high end, so I guess you have a desktop, and you have an RTX 4080...

Also be very careful about the temperature of any NVMe which can suffer from GPU and CPU heat and may need good cooling to avoid increasing all of that and also the other system chipsets.

[Metalhead38]

Its a Desktop PC and only 4months old.

I have put the Fans via MSI Center to high.
I changed some settings but that didnt help. Its so strange cause Horizon is the only game where after 4-5min the CPU Temp rises from 70 to 80 and in Combat it gets around 85 sometimes 86/87 which is a little alarming to me.
Dont know what causes this

[Ordisoftware]

No worries below 90°.

My ryzen 5800X always goes up to 80-89 in games, even with the enermax cooler and the 3 be quiet case fans at full blast. As long as it doesn't stagnate at 90 and over 92, and the NVMe doesn't go over 60°, and the main chipset doesn't go over 50°, I stay calm, especially since the RX6600 doesn't heat up at all, below 70-80°, even with its fans at 0 with some games like Horizon, it's amazing compared to NVidia. That doesn't mean I couldn't improve the cooling, but it's expensive and I say all this mainly to insist on your RTX which is probably the heart of your worry, not the CPU by itself, but the combination.

Even my internet box and the TV decoder scared me the first time I saw temperatures approaching 100°, but in fact they are made to withstand them: today's components are no longer the same as 10, 20 or 30 years ago and more... nor sensors.

The important thing is to control so as not to exceed the limits, and to have a good power supply, and possibly a good inverter.

[BlastThyName]

Cap the framerate, check your cooling, de-dust your PC.

[Ordisoftware]

Indeed, I forgot this, because mechanical: regular dust off is vital, with compressed air can and cotton, or special vacuum cleaner and brushes, let's say every 1 to 3 or 6 months depending on the context. This can lower temperatures by a third, especially in summer. Remember to let it cool before intervention and let it rest before turn back on.

[Zarren]

How does your CPU temp fair in other games?

FWIW, I had an air cooled 5950X for a few years before building a new PC a few months ago. In most of my games including this one, my CPU temp usually stayed in the 75 range.

[𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰]

Originally posted by Metalhead38:

Hi,
I have a little issue,
When i play Horizon Remastered my Temperature of my CPU is between 81 and 86 degrees

Thats the only game where the CPU Temp is that high. Is that normal or can i change some Settings ingame to lower the Temperature?
I have max settings on without DLSS on 1440p res

Ryzen 9 5950X
Gforce RTX 4080 Super
64GB Ram

I have Watercooling installed but i dont know the name of the Components

Means that the cooler is too weak or poorly seated. Did you build this PC or it was prebuilt?

[Metalhead38]

i de dusted my PC, wasnt much dust in it anyways.
I always cap the framerate when i play games, usualy around 85, thats what i use in Horizon.

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Cap the framerate, check your cooling, de-dust your PC.

[Metalhead38]

Originally posted by 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰:

Originally posted by Metalhead38:

Hi,
I have a little issue,
When i play Horizon Remastered my Temperature of my CPU is between 81 and 86 degrees

Thats the only game where the CPU Temp is that high. Is that normal or can i change some Settings ingame to lower the Temperature?
I have max settings on without DLSS on 1440p res

Ryzen 9 5950X
Gforce RTX 4080 Super
64GB Ram

I have Watercooling installed but i dont know the name of the Components

Means that the cooler is too weak or poorly seated. Did you build this PC or it was prebuilt?

it was prebuilt, and i dont think it has something to do with the cooler, cause any other game doesnt have this issue.
I recently tried Death Streanding which is also using the Decima Engine, and there the Temperature is around 73.
Horizon is the only game where no matter which ingame settings i use, the Temp of the CPU rises from 69-80 to 85 in around 3 to 5 min
The CPu usage ise around 18% so no problem there

[Ordisoftware]

As mentioned, Horizon is a very well-optimized game, at least from my experience with my setup, and it seems to be the general consensus as well. That makes it quite odd that it’s the only game giving you issues. But you have no worries about it, unless it’s a symptom of a problem, which is rare with a brand new computer right out of the box.

• Was your PC prebuilt by someone or by a manufacturer? If so, which one, and what is the model?

• What is your GPU temperature? Are its fan(s) working properly? Where do they direct the airflow (normally toward the PSU, not the CPU)?

• Do you have an NVMe drive around to the CPU, between it and the GPU? If so, what model? Does it have a heatsink, active or passive, and what model? How hot does it get in-game?

• Does the CPU cooler’s fan blow air into the heatsink or exhaust it outward? Also, do the case fans pull air in or push it out or both from where to where?

I personally use OpenHardwareMonitor and CrystalDiskInfo.

[𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰]

Originally posted by Metalhead38:

it was prebuilt, and i dont think it has something to do with the cooler, cause any other game doesnt have this issue.
I recently tried Death Streanding which is also using the Decima Engine, and there the Temperature is around 73.
Horizon is the only game where no matter which ingame settings i use, the Temp of the CPU rises from 69-80 to 85 in around 3 to 5 min
The CPu usage ise around 18% so no problem there

Download Aida64 & start CPU+cache stress test. You'll probably see it go even higher. CPU gets hot when it consumes a lot of power and the cooler is unable to spread that heat. Engine has nothing to do with it. There's no magic behind components getting hot.

[Aleddra]

I usually get heat problems. At least i did before changing the CPU fan.

What i did was under-clock the CPU. BIOS has this option where i just set the CPU to 80%. I think it fixes voltages and magical stuffs on it's own.

[Ordisoftware]

For example, lowering the dynamic VCore to -0.048V allows the temperature to be lowered by 5 to 10° depending on the usage situations, without any significant drop in performance (for a Ryzen 5800X with max 85-86° instead of 90-92° with my setup).

[DaVillain343]

Howdy, I'm running on an RTX 4070 FE and Ryzen 7: 9800X3D. I usually go from 80-87 range but my CPU cooler is the DeepCool Assassin 4 air cooler which is a premium cooler btw. Keep in mind those Ryzen CPUs from the 5000 to 9000 are designed to handle high temperatures so that's kinda the normal these days to go into the 80's degrees. Now, when it reaches into the 90's and its rare for them to reach that high, that's when something's off. So yeah, if you are in between 81-86, its perfectly fine. I hardly care if my PC runs hots like that as my GPU never reaches 80 as I have set it to fan curve when it need to do its work and same goes for my CPU air cooler.

[BMfan]

There is a problem with the game from what I can work out, not a major problem just a nuisance.
I have a 5800x3d CPU.
When I start the game my CPU sits at around 45 to 50 degrees in game, but normally after about 5 to 10 minutes it goes to around 60 to 65 and never lowers again.
The power usage goes from about 40w to 47w, but the temp increases by 20 degrees.
There was one time where it stayed around the 45's for about 20 minutes, I had thought I stopped what was causing this issue, but of course went right back to normal.

Just as a reference, Cyberpunk sits at around 55|60 degrees in game, but it is using around 55 to 60 watts.
HZD-R is using +-47 watts and is sitting at 65 degrees.