Games intermittently freezing

[britechguy]

temps like this still make me wince, though.

They don't even make me blink. My conception of "what's hot" has moved in synchrony with what the industry has been doing as far as pushing up max temps. It's just one of those things I adjust to, along with myriad others.

 

[frase]

More semiconductors equates to more heat.

 

[GTP]

 

[lan101]

Well 70c or under is still where you want to be when it comes to normal processors (65w or less) even on a stock cooler. If you take that 7600X and put a 65w power limit on it, it will run at less than 70c under full load using the AMD stock cooler. Though I don't recommend running the stock cooler on a 7600X because if the BIOS ever loses the power limit settings it will thermal throttle like crazy but a cheap $20 tower cooler will keep it around 60c and if the BIOS ever loses the settings it will keep it at 95c like "normal." I try to avoid using processors that draw more than 65w because I'm looking for longevity over maximum performance, and for 99% of people, a 65w CPU provides more than enough performance.

Yep for pretty much 99% of anyone I deal with it's definitely longevity over performance for what most of them do day to day. That's one of the main reason's I'm not up to par with the latest hardware the majority of the time lol.

 

[Blues]

I remember back a few CPU generations ago had an unlocked multiplier CPU and I overclocked it but also had a BIOS temp setting to shut down when it hit over 65c so wild to me that 90c is so normal. A side note that setting only ever triggered after years of use and neglect on blowing out dust that the cooler fins had dust between them all and it took my a while to figure it as the dust wasn't all that visible till I about took off the cooler to remove the CPU.

 

[britechguy]

BTW, and I'll circle back to my original topic, which got no responses, I've found what I think is a very clean logger that's extremely light on resources and will do some basic graphing of results for you.

Releases · Drahanov/easy-logger

A simple temperature monitoring tool for Windows that logs CPU, GPU, and motherboard temperatures to help diagnose system crashes and overheating issues. - Drahanov/easy-logger

github.com

I'm using the portable version, and folks are telling me that the installer gets flagged by Defender when you run it because this is an unsigned executable, which is not particularly surprising. I don't think I got nagged at all about anything between download and running of the portable version.

Those of you who think everything's got to be under 70 degrees (and I don't) will have a heart attack at what's a typical morning of temps, shown here: temp_log_20260121_103914.csv
I'm currently allowing it to log again, but have only just started, for this morning: temp_log_20260122_112106.csv

It's not that everything's running at high temps all the time, but it's not at all uncommon to have 70s, 80s, and 90s, for more than "a second or two" if I'm chugging away with something that's processor intensive. When I'm not, the temps tend to hover in the 30s and 40s.

It's set to log every 30 seconds, I think the interval was the same yesterday, but am not certain of that.

 

[Rigo]

BTW, and I'll circle back to my original topic, which got no responses, I've found what I think is a very clean logger that's extremely light on resources and will do some basic graphing of results for you.

Releases · Drahanov/easy-logger

A simple temperature monitoring tool for Windows that logs CPU, GPU, and motherboard temperatures to help diagnose system crashes and overheating issues. - Drahanov/easy-logger

github.com

I'm using the portable version, and folks are telling me that the installer gets flagged by Defender when you run it because this is an unsigned executable, which is not particularly surprising. I don't think I got nagged at all about anything between download and running of the portable version.

Those of you who think everything's got to be under 70 degrees (and I don't) will have a heart attack at what's a typical morning of temps, shown here: temp_log_20260121_103914.csv
I'm currently allowing it to log again, but have only just started, for this morning: temp_log_20260122_112106.csv

It's not that everything's running at high temps all the time, but it's not at all uncommon to have 70s, 80s, and 90s, for more than "a second or two" if I'm chugging away with something that's processor intensive. When I'm not, the temps tend to hover in the 30s and 40s.

It's set to log every 30 seconds, I think the interval was the same yesterday, but am not certain of that.

Thx for sharing
Will give it a try, anything that can help get a clue about what's happening is welcome.