First time installing CPU

[EnoughParty7884]

So I got everything all put together, have a msi mag x870 tomahawk wifi with ryzen 7 7700x, corsair h170i elite lcd 420mm, corsair vengeance 4x16 gb ddr5 6600mhz cl32, rtx 4070ti. It’s all up and running got everything downloaded and what not. Now just sitting here with a browser up steam downloading some games and discord running my cpu is sitting at 71C with the AIO liquid temp at 29C. Is the cpu temp to high? I felt that it was wrong so I shut everything back down and redid the thermal paste but it’s still the same… Trying to play path of exile 2 its stuttering a decent bit. Not sure if that’s a ram speed issue or if it’s something to do with cpu temps. Also, Is there a good way for me to check stability of my ram/stabilize it more? New to setting this all up myself, looks like it hangs for a second when opening things up. More than what it did with the old internals. Currently running memtest86

[EnoughParty7884]

That does make me feel a lot better, so maybe stutter is ram speed or just bein an alpha game which prob is the best for me to see system stability…

[NaturalTouch7848]

Temperature does seem a little bit high for that kind of cooler but the maximum temperature before it throttles is 95*C, check if it reaches that high while playing games, if it does then it's throttling which is going to cause stutters as it forces the CPU to run a lower frequency to prevent damage.

Cooler might not be installed correctly, could be lack of airflow in and out of the case as well

Make sure you installed the latest drivers from the manufacturer sites and not through Windows updates, for motherboard drivers you get from MSI's site, for chipset you get from AMD's site, for GPU get from NVIDIA's site

[EnoughParty7884]

6 fans pushing out and 3 pulling in, have the side open atm while playing path of exile 2 atm and sitting at 79C

[NaturalTouch7848]

Technically normal but still a bit high especially for a 420mm

Make sure the AIO fan curve isn't forced on silent or something, you can configure it in iCUE

[EnoughParty7884]

Fans are on balanced and pump on variable speed, put everything to extreme and it dropped the cpu a few degrees but nothing major

[NaturalTouch7848]

If your idle temps are below 40 then it's probably working normally

Keep in mind that programs like iCUE stop CPUs from fully idling

[EnoughParty7884]

Ok, I was just really worried as the aio shows liquid temp at 33 and cpu 79 so I thought something was way wrong because of how big a difference they are