High CPU temps but low cpu usage
running this mod makes my cpu temps jump from like 80-85c on the lowest settings possible, currently running minimal cpu impact and 128 lod render distance. the weird thing is that my cpu usage only reaches like 20% due to minimal impact settings which is normal, but then it still reaches pretty high temps, while other games that use way more like 60% of my cpu wont even reach 75c on my cpu
Running a 4070 super paired with a Ryzen 9 7900x on singleplayer with sodium/iris/ferritecore/indium/lithium/starlight at 1440p
if im standing still while all the lods around me have loaded only then do the temps go down and stay stable but its once i start running around loading new stuff that it just randomly skyrockets
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for reference im aware a r9 7900x is known to run hot and is designed to run up to 95c but i dont really want to increase my settings knowing that even on minimal impact it reaches 80-85c so im frequently running into rendering issues due to low cpu load
are there any specific settings that i should enable/disable to lower the temps
Reducing vanilla RD and vanilla simulation distance might reduce CpU load and decrease the temps
Outside of that you would need a better cooler, but as you said even if your CPU hits 95c it does not mean it is thermal throttling as it is programmed to first hit that temp and only then think about what it is doing
vanilla rd is just at 8 same for sim distance
thing is tho that no other game makes my temps go this high even when the cpu usage is higher than in minecraft with dh
so idrk whats going on
like ive been playing doom eternal recently and my cpu would sit at 60% usage but sit at 75c
but 20% usage in minecraft dh and it jumps between like 82-85
at the lowest settings possible at 128 lod chunks
so i feel like its not really related to my cooling but just me messing up some settings in dh
what cooler do you have installed
dark rock pro 4 air cooler
should be plenty for this cpu
yeah that should be enough for a 7900x
ye i think its just some settings that i need to change because no other game makes my temps go up this high
If you put DH on max load, what are the sustained temps after about 5 minutes of runtime?
ill try it in a bit i havent rly tested any cpu load setting above medium because i saw it go up to like 88 at medium
you can use something like HWInfo64 to get the average temperature
cant i just use afterburner for that?
probably
hm
been flying around a bit on aggressive and it seems to cap at 84c but then lags crazy hard cause cpu is at max usage
kind of weird how theres no gigantic temp increase now tho
probably because Its just a temp spike
Happens with my 7800x3d as well, even though I have Noctua NH-D14, which is plenty for that cpu
I can run cinebench all day on it and it won't throttle
ye been flying around for a bit
in generated lods its completely fine but its when loading new lods that it goes up to like 85-87 on balanced
which is fine i guess but its still a bit uncomfortably close to the thermal throttling limit
its super playable this way but i really dont want to have to check my temps the entire time just to make sure its not suddenly going up to 95
the thermal throttle limit isn't really harmful to the cpu
you don't really need to worry about anything
ye true just a bit paranoid
could also make my fan curve slightly more aggressive i suppose
Thats not gonna prevent the spikes
would that not help when generating new chunks
I mean sure, but your sustained temps are probably fine as is
right right
ig im just a little bit too paranoid then lool
yea
not used to seeing numbers that high
das cool tho ill just mark this as resolved
ty for the help and miki
also yeah jsut tested it without dh and it reaches similar temps on regular 32 render distance so prob just a minecraft being a primarily single core game moment
back to this rq the latest update + picking a different shader fixed this
now its running on temps you would expect
check if the CPU is being hit on only 2-4 cores, maybe only 6 cores are at %100 usage and are running hot, where no other cores are being used
that could explain the high temps but low usage
ooo thats a good one will check when im home
Pro-tip: Change this to logical processors to see the load on each core
HWiNFO64 is far more accurate than whatever data shown on task manager
also last update but i changed out my ram kit and upped the speeds to 4800 mts from 3600 and it now runs way cooler than before, now the average temperatures i had last time are now my peaks lol its wild
guess my old kit was bottlenecking my cpu in a way
genuinely surprised how cool it runs now LOL it peaks at like 82c when that used to be my average when running this mod
Nice