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Aurora R12, abnormal idle temperatures.
After recently recieving the new Aurora R12, I have noticed that the idle temperatures of CPU have been very high, sitting at around 70-80C with occasional spikes up to 90C when multitasking.
I am using an i9-11900F with air cooling, and an RTX 3080 as my GPU.
I have tried messing around with fan speeds which would cause a drop in temp of about 3-4C but as a result, an incredibly loud noise from the fans which seems excessive for normal use (Google Chrome etc).
Under load, CPU temperatures do increase but by very little and in some cases, the temperatures when idle are higher than when the PC is under load.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this issue might be? Whether it is some sort of issue with the drivers or a thermal pasting problem. Or should I consider contacting Dell ?
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Posted August 13th, 2021 08:00
The problem is the Air cooler is subpar for an 11900 CPU
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Posted August 13th, 2021 09:00
Oh okay so it’s air cooled. I have heard in here also that’s normal temps for air cooled. Maybe think about upgrading to water cooled cpu. A lot of info in here about that.
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Posted August 13th, 2021 09:00
if all at Balance your cpu should be lower than 4.6 GHz for sure. In windows power settings is it on balance too? Some of the big guns in here should help you.
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Posted August 13th, 2021 09:00
I have overclocking as Off, Thermal set to Balanced and Power set to Balanced, and have idle temps of 75C
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Posted August 13th, 2021 12:00
Little strange that your 3080 is idling at max clocks using 30% power and has a massive 9500mhz memory clock going on though
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Posted August 13th, 2021 12:00
this is my idle temps for 11600KF with an all core OC of 4.9Ghz liquid cooled. High performance mode and cpu power throttling disabled via registry reason why it stays locked at the upper clock 100%.
You can change to performance thermal plan and then change to high performance power plan as well but lower the minimum cpu limit to something like 50% so when idle doing nothing your temps should be pretty low, performance thermal plan will run the intake and exhaust fans a little faster when needed so it will also lower your idle temps and your high load temps
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Posted August 13th, 2021 13:00
That is considered normal with air cooling. One thing you can do is increase the front intake fan speed and especially the top exhaust fan speed, to increase air flow in the case.
In my opinion these systems should not be sold with air cooling, only liquid cooling.
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Posted August 13th, 2021 13:00
Mine does the same thing. I don't think it drops down the clock frequency, just the Core clock to 1710 when idling.
You can see the negative effects of the air cooling, as the idle temps for that 3080 are 55C while mine is 34C. It's because of the hot air from the CPU cooler dissipating in the case...
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Posted August 13th, 2021 14:00
Would you suggest fitting the liquid cooler onto the CPU instead?
One of my friends suggested that it could be an issue with the drivers? What do you think?
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Posted August 13th, 2021 08:00
in AWCC are you in High Performance mode?
when i don’t have a game running I keep it at Thermal Balance and temps idle around 38c.