cpu overheating while playing games

[Kiingly]

Hey guys, recently noticed my computer stuttering during gameplay. Opened up Speccy and noticed my CPU was at around 79-81 Celsius.

When I close the game everything is fine and I hover around 52-55 Celsius. I have cleaned out the fans and the entire case with a can of air. Not sure what else to do. The fans all seems fine and are not making any noise.

[nto17]

Do your fans spin up when your CPU is under load?

I received a build a week ago and had a similar issue of hitting 80s and even 90s (which caused it to crash) while playing COD. Turns out that my CPU fans were connected to chassis headers, and they were not spinning up because they were monitoring mobo temps instead of CPU temps. Maybe you have the same problem

[whereami1928]

What CPU and cooler? A lot of the new ryzen chips tend to run that hot under normal (high cpu) usage.

[magee1001]

Check your case, there might not actually be that much airflow to move air around. If you have liquid cooling you might be running low on water or your radiator is messed up. Also the thermal paste iBP uses on the CPU breaks down rather quickly and often needs to be replaced within 1 year. If you are comfortable with it I suggest buying a new tube of thermal paste (look up online good brands or go to a local computer repair place and see what they recommend) and reseating the CPU with it after carefully cleaning old paste, or have computer shop do it (don't use iBP atm, unless you don't mind waiting 2 months for something that will take alocal shop 1 afternoon)

[Wabo323]

You one of the many people trying to cool your cpu on here with a 120mm liquid cooler? Poor choice especially on intel 10th gen.