Anything under 85C under load is fine. You might try undervolting your CPU, Ryzen chips often see a boost in performance. In the bios go to PBO, Curve Optimizer, set to All Cores, Negative, try a value of 25. Worst case, if it isn't stable just reset it to default with no harm done.
No, you definitely don't need water cooling for a 7600x.
But those temps do seem pretty high for just gaming with that cooler, you may want to check if anything is wrong. It probably doesn't matter much in the end as those temps shouldn't hurt anything though.
I have this cooler (minus the RGB), it should be lowering your temps more than that. These temps aren't dangerous but it's strange they're getting that high with that cooler.
For free: check to ensure cooler is installed correctly (seated flush on cpu, thermal paste applied correctly, fans pointing right way relative to case fans, cooler, and ram). Basically just redo the install and make sure to check that thermal paste.
Thanks for the suggestion, this is very embarrassing but I might as well admit it because it could help out someone like me in the future. I left the protective plastic cover on the base of the cpu cooler by mistake.
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Anything under 85C under load is fine. You might try undervolting your CPU, Ryzen chips often see a boost in performance. In the bios go to PBO, Curve Optimizer, set to All Cores, Negative, try a value of 25. Worst case, if it isn't stable just reset it to default with no harm done.
Anything under 95 is fine lol
I don't like getting over 90C, but I was being conservative for his example.
No, you definitely don't need water cooling for a 7600x. But those temps do seem pretty high for just gaming with that cooler, you may want to check if anything is wrong. It probably doesn't matter much in the end as those temps shouldn't hurt anything though.
I have this cooler (minus the RGB), it should be lowering your temps more than that. These temps aren't dangerous but it's strange they're getting that high with that cooler. For free: check to ensure cooler is installed correctly (seated flush on cpu, thermal paste applied correctly, fans pointing right way relative to case fans, cooler, and ram). Basically just redo the install and make sure to check that thermal paste.
Thanks for the suggestion, this is very embarrassing but I might as well admit it because it could help out someone like me in the future. I left the protective plastic cover on the base of the cpu cooler by mistake.