Significant Overheating Issue | CyberPowerPC UK | Page 1

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:21 PM

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Been playing Cyberpunk 2077 with no issues until today, where the temperature count on the motherboard is showing 90C and all the lighting starts flashing red. Quit out of the game and it got back to stable sub-50C temperatures, but the hardware I've got shouldn't be having this problem, even at high settings.

I'm not exactly sure what's happening, might be a graphics card issue or something to do with the cooling not switching on properly when I'm running something intensive.

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:21 PM

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surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:23 PM

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the flashing red is caused by icue - there's a setting somewhere for your cooler that will set all your RGB to red and at high enough temperatures to shutdown - you can disable it somewhere in icue settings (on your coolers profile)

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as for the temperatures, 90C is kind of toasty for the CPU, iirc you have the 9800X3D right?

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:24 PM

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Thanks for the info, but I'm honestly more worried about the super-high temperatures: was running CP2077 on the first couple of days and only hitting mid-60s

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Yeah I have a 9800X3D

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:25 PM

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oh that's odd - is your CPU cooler ramping up the fan speed properly?

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:25 PM

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Not sure how to check that

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:25 PM

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you can either check in iCue or just by listening to the fans, can you hear them getting louder (indicating an increase in fan speed)

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:26 PM

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Corsair iCue

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:27 PM

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I can, yeah

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:29 PM

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have you found the setting for disabling the flashing red

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i'd show you but my cooler has decided not to connect to icue 😭

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you should do a stress test (it'll put a heavy load on your CPU) to see how it copes

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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Prime95 Stress Testing

:one: Visit the link below and download Windows: 64-bit
:two: Open the zip file you just downloaded and run Prime95.exe
:three: Click 'Extract', choose a File Location then click 'Extract' again.
:four: Run Prime95 from the File Explorer window which just opened and select 'Just Testing'
:five: Run the Large FFTs Test, leaving all the other settings on the defaults, and allow it to run for two hours.
:exclamation: If your PC freezes or crashes while running the test or the two hours are up, let us know.
:six: At the top, select Test and click Stop, then go to Options and choose Torture Test.
:seven: Run the Blend Test, leaving all the other settings on the defaults, and allow it to run for 2 hours.
:exclamation: If your PC freezes or crashes while running the test or the two hours are up, let us know.

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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you should use this as the stress test ^

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and the thing below to monitor temperatures:

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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HWiNFO

Download either the Installer or Portable version
For temperatures, run in Sensor Only mode.

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:32 PM

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Okay yeah, just checked again and for some reason the fans weren't engaging

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:32 PM

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oh?

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:32 PM

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Manually changed the fan settings on iCue from balanced to extreme and the temperature is dropping

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Now sub-60 but I'm worried about why it's not automatically switching

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:34 PM

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oblique seal Now sub-60 but I'm worried about why it's not automatically switching

automatically switching?

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Like, automatically ramping up when running something intensive

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If I just set everything to max all the time I'm gonna burn the fans and pump out

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:37 PM

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oblique seal If I just set everything to max all the time I'm gonna burn the fans and pump ou...

nono - the extreme mode is still a fan curve it's just more of an 'extreme' fan curve (meaning it ramps up earlier)

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Alright, well I'm just glad I'm seeing less insane temperatures

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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cprgbglitch :tada: Congrats @oblique seal, you levelled up to 8! :tada:

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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90C and flashing red lights was definitely a panic moment

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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oblique seal Alright, well I'm just glad I'm seeing less insane temperatures

yeah i get that, 90C is a little toasty for a CPU

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:43 PM

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Things are stable now, thanks for the help and advice

dense martenBOT Mar 22, 2025, 5:44 PM

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cptick You have thanked @surreal shadow for this thread!

surreal shadow Mar 22, 2025, 5:47 PM

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oblique seal Things are stable now, thanks for the help and advice

lmk if you run into any more issues!

oblique seal Mar 22, 2025, 5:50 PM

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Will do! I like this PC and I wanna make sure it's running smoothly for a loooooong time

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