i9-13900K water cooling not enough (this boi is really toasty holy)

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So I've recently bought a new desktop system with a i9-1300K. As this is my first build ever silly me though that a Lian-Li 360mm AIO would be enough. Oh boy was I wrong. At idle it's fine but almost any more demanding load will start cooking in the high 80's. A Cinabench r23 run (the first pic) shows a pretty good, but after the first minute or two it was at 98-100C (Somehow it got 40k+ points on my first ever run idk how). I ran AIDA64 to see how bad it is and well see for yourself (second pic) and it just kept getting worse in thermal-throttling. Thankfully atm I have a 3060-ti in here (don't judge 40-series prices higher than a drug addict on acid and since I'm in Europe pc parts markup is BIG) so while gaming my CPU doesn't need to work much. Funnily enough, the bottleneck is so bad, while gaming it usually doesn't go above 10% usage lmao. In any case I need some help on water-cooling this HOT boi. Also I want to mention that in the future if 40 series prices come anywhere close to rational levels, I def want to water-cool whatever GPU I get so a custom triple 360mm rad water-cooling solution in my opinion is best for this kind of futureproof but I'm no expert. Now even tho this is my first ever build it 1. posted first try and 2. I'm still in theory very experienced due to me fiddling with many electronics beforehand especially servers which are a bi**h at times, so don't try and tell me off that "Water-cooling hard go air don't waste you time" cuz I'll do it anyway but would prefer some helpful tips and good hardware. I really someone can find a bit of their time to help a fellow tech-savvy guy!

I should probably add that in the cinabench screen it says win 10 but I'm using win 11. It's probably because I upgraded from wind 10 and this is a laptop windows key from my previous system

[ornate breach]

mounting pressure is an issue with the lga1700 sockets. 12th and 13th gen CPU's.
The 360mm should be enough to keep it in the 80's to low 90C under synthetic loads. And with manual tuning the CPU voltage and clocks even the high 70's C.
Might want to look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYU1OskbY-Q

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Yea I actually already bough one it's in the mail but I did do some thorough testing with my hand, yes janky but, I tested it many times yet not much change. Like yes it did help but like it's still to high

And it thermal throttles instantly anyways due to it before clocking down :/

[rapid umbra]

if you have an asus/msi board there is an oc setting on my default in the bios, that happened to me to, as soon as i turned it off i was getting a nicer idle of ~45 degrees and load of around 80 before it was like 60 idle and 99 load

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No I have a Gigabyte Z790 GAMING X AX so idk bout that. Tbh maybe its sth with this motherboard or the lian li aio

[rapid umbra]

i have a ek 360mm to keep those temps cool

lian li should be only slightly worse i think?

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Yea

Thats what i thought

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you should check your bios still, gigabyte might have some funky cpu overclocking on by default

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Wait i just checked and

is the i9-13900K TDP really 125W?

I see it do easily 250

even 270 a few times

[rapid umbra]

no its 293

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ok good

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Well um

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I got it

tested it

adn yea

[weak egret]

and yeah what ? 🙂

Temps better?

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Well it turbos a bit longer

and it's genneraly not overheating as much but

[weak egret]

seems fine if it doessnt throttle 🤷‍♂️

because this is unrealistic high loads

[thick ember]

well yea true

but i still use its power many times a day

like 1440p video editing

[weak egret]

well try it for a while, if this is being crappy consider a different cooler.

[thick ember]

yea prob

thanks anyway

[weak egret]

weirdly enough AIO is crappier as custom cooling 🤷‍♂️ at least from the experience of this tech-support channel.

[thick ember]

let's remember this IS a i9-13900k 😑

One hot boi

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Well custom cooling is better than aio

But my aio handles it fine

With cinebench it gets to 93

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And what's the score?

[rapid umbra]

Need to check it's 39,400 or something like that

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hm

well mine with basically throttling all the time got a 39700

[rapid umbra]

I have the Ek 360 basic with the liquid metal from thermal grizzly

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ah

liquid metal

there's why

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Meh good enough

[lyric gyro]

Me with my 9700 that gets like 9k points

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https://tenor.com/view/noooo-gif-23973681

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Well cheesed it a bit with -2 Celsius intake

but still c'mon im cooling this bish with a 360mm aio

[lyric gyro]

-2 Celsius?! A lower temperature really helps the performance. I experienced that a few days ago when I was messing around with ThrottleStop on my i7-10710U based laptop. While Cinebench is running, the cooler can dissipate around 33W at around 22°C ambient temperature. When I reduced the ambient temperature to 5°C by going outside, tje cooler could now dissipate around 42W and I could get a cinebench score in the high 5900 range. Inside it could only do around 5500-5600