High CPU Temperature with low usage
Have an NVIDIA 4070 Super for GPU and AMD Ryzen 5 5600x for CPU. My CPU usage in the menus is only about 30-40% but the temperatures are exceeding 90 Celsius. I'm afraid playing this game will ruin t...
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A stock 14900K draws on average 170w in this game. 14900K is notoriously hot while OP's 5600x is super cool and cozy. This is a hardware issue even though the game runs things harder than many other games.
Unless your cores are pegged at 100%, you can safely disable SMT or Hyperthreading without loosing performance as a quick fix. On a 14900k, you drop as much as 60w by doing this. Or use Process Lasso to do this.
