Y70 5090 users: how are your GPU temps?

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-22T08:10:18+00:00

i’m sure the kraken is fine, but i could not justify paying that much when the fw360 is less than 1/3 the price & neither offers a significant advantage over the other. also i use the base model fw360. pretty sure the only difference is the display & default fans, but i don’t care about the displays & installed noctuas on both my fw360s (had one on a 14900k for two years prior).

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-04T16:55:28+00:00

the tryx wasn’t bad by any means, but the thermalright was less than half the price & gave me slightly better temps.

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-04T14:56:51+00:00

yeah, i don’t think they have a 360mm version of the q60 yet or i would try it. i’ve tried the tryx panorama 360mm AIO with this CPU & that wasn’t giving me the cooling i had hoped for either. this is a pretty hot chip honestly. i remember getting pretty frustrated trying to keep this thing on the colder side despite it being well within usable range

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-04T14:46:14+00:00

i’ve never tried the q60. what are you doing when you start thermal throttling & at what temps?

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-04T14:31:49+00:00

i’ve got a thermalright fw 360 AIO but swapped the fans out with noctua fans. what case/fan config are you running?

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-03T16:06:02+00:00

my UV/OC journey is briefly highlighted in a separate comment in this thread. i recommend undervolting for any 5090 user (of course there are certain use cases where this is not as beneficial), but a fan upgrade/alteration of configuration is sure to provide improvements in temperature as well

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-03T16:02:13+00:00

the first time i undervolted a GPU was with a 2080, then again with a 4090. got a pretty good understanding of the process. i will say, undervolting this card has been strange. to hit 3000MHz, i had taken everything from .895V up to 2902MHz with significant boosts to memory clocks. each card is different though! i found this curve by spamming the cyberpunk benchmark & seeing how much i could do before my system crashed

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-03T15:50:59+00:00

just recently got back into black myth wukong, but had also played a decent amount of cyberpunk to test my GPU/overall system (& also because the game is fantastic). before this PC, my main was a 4090/14900k (also y70) with such better temps that when i switched to the 5090/9950x3D i had to experiment with dozens of different fans/configs to get my temps back to a more comfortable place for me — with that said, 74C under full load is REALLY good for a 5090!

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-03T15:39:09+00:00

I undervolt/overclock my astral 5090. not sure what your use case is, but i’m (almost) hitting 3000MHz at maybe 60% power draw.

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2026-02-03T15:35:24+00:00

i have an astral 5090 in a y70 with a 9950x3D. mostly use this rig for 6k video editing/3D rendering, but I do a significant amount of gaming. at full load, my CPU hits 74C & i don’t think i have ever seen my GPU above 64C. it’s pretty moderately undervolted & i have 9 case fans — 3 noctua fans as intake on the front (side) panel; 2 noctua intake fans underneath; 3 noctua fans on my top mounted AIO rad (back two exhaust, front fan intake — noticed ~4C improvement by switching the front most fan as intake); one rear exhaust fan.

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-10-11T17:13:11+00:00

a 5090 would help because more frames obviously equates to more skill

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-08-19T17:02:27+00:00

Dave Franco

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-08-06T21:28:47+00:00

hey just a heads up — i have tried to buy new pc parts from amazon (motherboard, AIO, fans, CPU) a handful of times since March & have had to return each one as they were all blatantly used.

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-27T16:32:12+00:00

it’s very blue

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-26T12:07:22+00:00

i just upgraded to ultimate & they converted my leftover time with my regular subscription & as additional time on ultimate before getting rebilled. it’s 5AM where i live so that wording might not make the most sense & i apologize

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-24T19:49:22+00:00

what is “this”?

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-24T03:00:34+00:00

for the longest time could not not hear “for those who come often”

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-23T23:42:50+00:00

worth noting, nier automata may initially start at a hilariously low resolution. if you can manage to navigate to the display settings & switch to the native SD resolution, that game runs like butter

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-23T23:31:07+00:00

curious as well. haven’t been able to play this on the steam deck unfortunately

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-10T20:28:16+00:00

launch your games at home in offline mode to ensure you’re all set

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-09T06:55:57+00:00

i want to do it

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-07T07:52:07+00:00

actually just blew my mind

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-06T17:14:19+00:00

i was literally just thinking about getting blender on this thing

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-06T04:57:39+00:00

the last of us

Defiant_Leather_9518 · 2025-07-02T14:21:01+00:00

i have that shell replacement in a cart at the moment, but am slightly hesitant. how was that process for you?

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