Heat issue? Or normal?

So just messing around with my new system. Was running Baldurs gate in 4K Ultra and noticed that in my ICUE that at some point my GPU sensor #3 registered 88c, (not sure which area that is, since I didn’t build this) should I be concerned? On the side note, the CPU never gets above 65c.

I didn’t notice a bit of lag/choppiness or any sort of degradation of gameplay the entire session. Though it’s odd going from my last DS build with a RTX 2070 that never got above room temp practically.

This is the first PC I’ve owned that blows enough hot air to be a room heater as a side job. The back panel was blowing out 101F air and the case was hot to the touch lol. Probably use it to warm up food.

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (8-Core) 5.0 GHz Turbo (3D V-Cache)
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming (Wi-Fi) (AMD X670 Chipset) (Up to 3x PCI-E Devices) (DDR5)
System Memory: 64GB DDR5 6000MHz Kingston FURY Beast RGB
Power Supply: 1500W Corsair HX1500i (Modular) (80 Plus Platinum)
Storage Set 1: 1x SSD M.2 (2TB Samsung 980 PRO) (NVM Express)
Storage Set 2: 1x SSD M.2 (4TB Kingston Fury Renegade) (NVM Express)
Storage Set 3: 1x Storage (10TB Western Digital / Seagate - Ultrastar Data Center / IronWolf)
Graphics Card(s): 1x GeForce RTX 4090 24GB (VR Ready)
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 3: Digital Storm Vortex Liquid CPU Cooler (Triple Fan) (Fully Sealed + No Maintenance)
Monitor: Samsung G8 240hz 1ms 4K



Edited by Dondomingo - 08 Oct 2023 at 8:08pm

Thanks for the reply Tidgxor,

Yeah I’d say the other two sensors are lower but near within the 20c mark +\-c, so sounds like the hotspot. This was a pretty long gaming session around 5 hrs, ambient room temps were around 78F. I would imagine if the heat was getting to that point of being bad the unit would show signs of throttling or at worst shutting down, but she just kept purring like it was nothing. The PNY websites says that 95c is the danger zone, so I just want to avoid damaging it.

The fans are so damn quiet at the default level 1500RPM, that even when I manually put them at 100%, I just don’t hear them. Which used to be a good sign of a case getting too hot was the fans would get real noisy lol.

One of the main reason I worry is a few years ago, the PC before that prior DS build, was was my 3rd Alienware ( took a chance on the last build, when I heard they were bought out by DELL) that machine got so hot it ate up 5 GPU’s, just fried them. Got to the point I’d just buy what ever GPU was cheapest since it like through money down a pit, at the end I’d have to keep the side panel off with a room fan pointed at the components. (Very bad case design, only two internal fans and a cover that fit over the GPU, that looked like the idea it was designed to be a wind tunnel, but it had zero air supply for the tunnel, so it baked the GPU. Terrible)

TBH I would of done water cooling for the GPU as my last build had that custom water cooling from DS and it was not only beautiful to look at but worked very well at keeping temps down, but alas I sided on the fact my age is getting up there. So future self-alterations would have been difficult. Been playing PC games since the days of Vic 20 and Tandy 1000, 386chipsets when 1.5GhZ was fast lol, so I’m a bit arthritic to be messing inside these tight cases, but I’ll keep playing as long as they build them for me and I can still hold a mouse lol.

Now, that’s a long winded reply, see..getting old and rambling on is becoming default, lolol. I’m afraid if you ask another question I might have to include useless information about my cats.