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Another option would be to shift the balance of resources by increasing your resolution, pushing more of the processing to the GPU in order to reduce the load on the CPU. Though, this one will only be an option if you're running under your monitor's native resolution, or if you enable virtual resolutions in your graphics driver.
Fans ramping up on a system isn't a bad thing, though. You'll want to check temperatures, which can be done with software like Hardware Info, or you can use HWiNFO. I personally use a combination of MSI Afterburner and HWiNFO on my system, so I can view the information in an on-screen display in games.
Depending on the CPU, your temperatures may be high because of the nature of that CPU, too, but this is normal behavior. More recent CPUs will boost themselves as much as possible, so even a watercooled system will see high temperatures because they're designed to prioritize speed over lower temperatures, thus they utilize as much cooling headroom as they possibly can.
You can also find that information by pressing CTRL, Shift, and ESC at the same time to bring up Task Manager. In Task Manager, click the Performance tab on the left, then click CPU; the CPU's model will be at the top. Memory will state your total amount of RAM at the top, and GPU will say the GPU model at the top. If you have a dedicated graphics card and your CPU also has integrated graphics, you may end up with GPU 0 and GPU 1. In that case, one of them is the dedicated GPU, whereas the other is the integrated that's typically unused while the dedicated is in use. Grabbing each of those GPU names would be good to do if you're not sure which is which.
The software I mentioned, being Hardware Info and HWiNFO, can also tell you this information alongside the temperatures, but it has a lot more details, so if you're not sure about any of it, you could feel a little overwhelmed.
Modern computers have safety methods in place to prevent damage to the hardware if they become too hot. Fans ramping up is the default behavior for all systems, and it's completely normal, since those fans are what keep the system cooled down. If the cooling isn't sufficient enough, then the hardware itself may begin to throttle itself by way of performing an underclock. While underclocking, it reduces its speeds, and thus reduces its power draw and performance, in order to reduce the temperatures. If something is so bad that such actions still aren't enough, your system may shut itself down, but getting to that point would mean there's something wrong with your system that needs to be fixed.
Ultimately, it's not an issue, and fans increasing their speeds is completely normal while playing games, especially if there's no framerate cap. The higher the framerate your system runs something at, the more power it's going to be able to draw, thus the higher the temperatures will become. Intense games can achieve the same effect with a much lower framerate, but this game isn't intense in the slightest, so locking that framerate to something low with V-Sync is the easiest solution to a resolution.
For example, my system can easily drive this game's framerate up to nearly 500fps while running it at a 2560x1440 resolution, and take hundreds of watts of power to do so. However, if I enable V-Sync and lock my framerate to my monitor's refresh rate of 170Hz, thus meaning it drops it to 170fps, I can play the game at near-idle usage because it takes so little. If you only have a 60Hz refresh rate monitor, you can see even further reductions, then there's also the more-advanced options of forcing a hard limit with your graphics driver, to set the framerate limit to just about anything you see fit.
For a game like this, though, there's nothing gained by having the framerate higher than the refresh rate of your monitor, and enabling that V-Sync can also prevent screen tearing, meaning it could further improve your experience.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
Grundlæggende hastighed: 3,40 GHz
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Driverversion: 32.0.12033.1030
Driverdato: 27-11-2024
DirectX-version: 12 (FL 12.1)
Fysisk placering: PCI-bus 7, enhed 0, funktion 0
Udnyttelse 1%
Dedikeret GPU-hukommelse 2,4/16,0 GB
Delt GPU-hukommelse 0,2/16,0 GB
GPU-hukommelse 2,7/32,0 GB
also running 2560*1440 165 hertz but i played today there was nothing
Windows may sometimes do things in the background, so it's possible you'll have periodic moments of higher CPU usage, too, so don't worry so much if there's sometimes an inconsistency in behavior. Differing maps, designs, etc., the variables involving the gameplay will also affect performance and power draw, but your system's fast enough that this game should be nowhere near placing a heavy tax on it.
The balance between CPU and GPU is more heavily skewed towards the GPU's side in your build, though, so your CPU's usage will be higher. The CPU can easily be a bottleneck to the GPU's performance, so some games may see your CPU up over 50% utilization in order to keep up with the GPU. The higher that utilization goes, the more power it'll draw, which then means it'll have a higher potential temperature that requires the fans to increase in speed to keep it cooled.
My guess as to the issue you had was that your framerate was uncapped, so your CPU had a large percentage of utilization, then that could've also been combined with some activity in the background, such as Windows processes. If you're really worried about it, you could look up a program called Cinebench, then run Hardware Info alongside it to keep an eye on your CPU's temperatures while running a 10-minute throttle test in Cinebench.
Even if the CPU reaches 80C in that test, it's perfectly acceptable and not a harm to it, especially since Cinebench will run it at 100% utilization. If 100% utilization causes it to reach around 95C, then it could start to throttle to keep its temperatures in check. If this occurs, then your CPU's cooler is a little too anemic for it and therefore needs to be swapped with something that can handle a higher heat load.
Assuming your CPU isn't overclocked, the 5700X can reach a power draw of approximately 130 watts, so if you have a cooler on it that can't handle more than that, the fans will run faster as the temperature reaches higher. Just to also eliminate potential confusion, the rated TDP of a CPU is always something you should ignore, as it's in no way indicative of power draw or potential temperature, as Intel and AMD each use different means of aggregating their TDP ratings, and those methods may also differ between generations.
That means the TDP ratings are effectively useless for anything more than marketing, as they'll slot CPUs into specific sets. For an example, the 5700X is rated as a 65-watt TDP CPU, but since it can reach around 130 watts, it means it's actually able to pull double the rated TDP. If someone only paid attention to that 65 watts, they'd drastically underspec their cooler for it and cause it to throttle during almost any use-case scenario. For an additional comparison, I have a 7900X CPU in my system, and its rated TDP is 170 watts. This is less egregious, but my CPU can also reach close to 210 watts, placing its true power draw at nearly 40 watts over the rated TDP.
Unless you have a small cooler for your CPU, it's unlikely going to be a problem. Even something small should be fine until the thermal paste cures, too, though then you will see temperatures increase and get a lot more throttling, as the cooler then won't be able to absorb the heat quickly enough to dissipate it because that thermal paste is too solid. That issue of thermal paste is something that can happen in any system, but a larger cooler can help prevent it from being as much of an issue, and it can help lengthen the time it takes for that thermal paste to cure.
The rated TDP on a cooler is typically for actual power draw, however, so if you do later find a need to swap to something a little larger, you'll want to look for something that exceeds that 130 watts. Doing this can also sometimes be a little difficult to do, though, as you'll want to make certain the size of it is well-within the size limits of your case. If you don't have the room for a large heatsink in your computer's case, but you do have the option of mounting a 240mm, 280mm, or larger radiator in it, then you might want to grab an AIO (All-in-one) cooler, which is a self-contained waterloop for just the CPU. For information on that, I'd suggest searching through videos from Gamers Nexus, on YouTube.