Experts say regularly sustained CPU temps above 80C/176F can cause damage to the silicon.
Let it be known, my PC was not built for efficiency. It's a mid-range-budget-build-turned-Frankenstein-Monster, a mix of old and new, cheap and expensive components, cobbled together into a case from an old prebuilt system with as many fans as it can handle. But by some miracle, it works, and works decently well (if you ignore the strange noises it makes when first booting up and when it gets hot). I'm planning a new PC build here soon, a Christmas present to myself, so this one can finally rest... or be scavenged for another project, I haven't really decided.
The cooling system... well, it's there. For now I'm just using the cheap cooler that came with my Ryzen 5 5600x (I promise it was supposed to be temporary). It's really not enough for a gaming rig, however, most games don't get it above 80-85c. Trainz is the exception to that. Surveyor specifically.
I've been on-and-off working on a few route projects that will never see the light of day because they will never be finished. I got a bit of a creative hair last night, so I've had a bit of a route building marathon session. That's when I noticed it getting uncomfortably warm in the room. After double-checking that the air conditioning was still working, I decided to pull up CoreTemp on my second monitor (I usually have it up while doing any gaming, but forgot this one time). YOWZA! My CPU temp was at a whopping 96C, for my fellow Americans, that's 204.8F, you could fry an egg on that thing.
I quickly saved my work and closed the game, allowing my system to cool a little bit before getting back to it. This time, monitoring my temps while working so see what's causing the temp to get so dadgum high. Just flying around my route (granted, it's pretty bare and still untextured), I see temps in the mid-high 70s, which is to be expected. Adding scenery or splines, it crawls up to right around 80. But when I zoom out into map view, that's when temps really start going up, 85-88C or so. And when I'm forming terrain, adding some light rolling hills to my flat route, my CPU temp very quickly exceeds 90C, up to about 95 or so before it starts throttling and slowing everything down.
Obviously, this is a bit of a downer on my all-night route building marathon, seeing as how I can only work in short bursts to keep my PC from cooking itself.
Does anybody else have this problem, or is it just my janky PC?
Matt - currently at 58C just writing this forum post.
Let it be known, my PC was not built for efficiency. It's a mid-range-budget-build-turned-Frankenstein-Monster, a mix of old and new, cheap and expensive components, cobbled together into a case from an old prebuilt system with as many fans as it can handle. But by some miracle, it works, and works decently well (if you ignore the strange noises it makes when first booting up and when it gets hot). I'm planning a new PC build here soon, a Christmas present to myself, so this one can finally rest... or be scavenged for another project, I haven't really decided.
The cooling system... well, it's there. For now I'm just using the cheap cooler that came with my Ryzen 5 5600x (I promise it was supposed to be temporary). It's really not enough for a gaming rig, however, most games don't get it above 80-85c. Trainz is the exception to that. Surveyor specifically.
I've been on-and-off working on a few route projects that will never see the light of day because they will never be finished. I got a bit of a creative hair last night, so I've had a bit of a route building marathon session. That's when I noticed it getting uncomfortably warm in the room. After double-checking that the air conditioning was still working, I decided to pull up CoreTemp on my second monitor (I usually have it up while doing any gaming, but forgot this one time). YOWZA! My CPU temp was at a whopping 96C, for my fellow Americans, that's 204.8F, you could fry an egg on that thing.
I quickly saved my work and closed the game, allowing my system to cool a little bit before getting back to it. This time, monitoring my temps while working so see what's causing the temp to get so dadgum high. Just flying around my route (granted, it's pretty bare and still untextured), I see temps in the mid-high 70s, which is to be expected. Adding scenery or splines, it crawls up to right around 80. But when I zoom out into map view, that's when temps really start going up, 85-88C or so. And when I'm forming terrain, adding some light rolling hills to my flat route, my CPU temp very quickly exceeds 90C, up to about 95 or so before it starts throttling and slowing everything down.
Obviously, this is a bit of a downer on my all-night route building marathon, seeing as how I can only work in short bursts to keep my PC from cooking itself.
Does anybody else have this problem, or is it just my janky PC?
Matt - currently at 58C just writing this forum post.
