PC Processors

[ltolman978]

I'm a huge PC Gamer but I'm also just a plug and play person. I do not Overclock anything; I do not try to adjust much of anything either. 'Defaults'

I do set warnings though, I recently bought a brand new PC and ironically months later decided to enable High Temperature Alerts. According to the Default for my Processor is set at 80c [Ryzen 9, 3950]

The other day I'm playing a brand new game, truly loving it and cannot stop playing I got an alert that it hit 80c.  I quickly saved and quit and let PC idle.

I then remembered that my Gigabyte Motherboard has a tool that allows me to change the Fan Speeds for my Processor (i'm sure) 

*Quiet

*Standard

*Performance

*Full Speed

Bought the PC (customized) last October (2020), currently have the fans set to 'Standard'.  Higher the setting the faster the blades spin which to me would think, faster degradation.

So would a common practice be to set the PC at 'Performance' play the game 1-2hrs max and then set it back to Standard for 2-4hrs before playing a high CPU intensive game?

I know certain parts quit over time but i do want to make the most of it LOL.

Thank you for your input.

[Gwillakers]

Buying a customized PC, I don't know how much control they give you in the BIOS.

Ryzen is great at running within the Thermal Limit you set.   If it approaches that limit it will cut back on frequencies, Number of dispatched cores, the amount of Multitasking (Hyper Threading), and voltages.  

See if you can go into BIOS and find a setting Thermal Limit. It is probably under PBO, but I don't believe it is a part of PBO.

Set it to Manual, and another field pops up, and set that to 70 (Celsius)

Then you can set your fan to whatever you are comfortable with.   I like to set my fans to about 1000 RPM (silent)

You will lose a bit of performance, but not that much, and it will be quiet whether you are playing a game or composing E-mail

[ryzen_type_r]

The BIOS fan profiles are usually just preset fan curves that adjust fan speed according to CPU (or other sensor) temps.  Full Speed is usually just 100% fan speed at all times.

The point of having fan curves is that the fans will run at lower speeds when the CPU isn't running that hot, and automatically spin up to higher speeds when CPU temps go up, so you don't need to keep manually adjusting fan speeds.

I don't know what the Gigabyte preset fan curves look like (on my Asus I found the highest performance curve to not be aggressive enough), but most motherboards will let you create your own in BIOS and in Windows via their motherboard utility.