I'm noticing that my Ryzen 7700 has idle temperatures around 50-55°C, and they sometimes spike to 65-70°C when I open my browser or other programs right after booting up. While gaming, the temperatures hit about 70-75°C, and I even saw 80°C for a brief moment in CS2. My case doesn't have great airflow, but I have a decent cooler (Thermalright Peerless Assasin). I know these temps aren't critical, but they seem a bit high to me, and I'm concerned about how much worse it might get during summer. For your info, I have Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) enabled in BIOS (+200 MHz), and I'm running a Curve Optimizer (C.O.) of -20.
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Make sure your thermal paste application is solid. Sometimes poor contact can lead to higher temps. Were you careful to remove any protective stickers on the cooler before installing? If you used MX-4 and saw no difference, perhaps try reapplying it with the cooler's paste instead.
Don't stress too much about those idle temps; they’re pretty standard for Ryzen chips. Focus more on the temperatures under load when you're gaming or benchmarking. Also, just a heads up, with your Curve Optimizer set to -20 for all cores, have you actually tested it? It could potentially affect performance differently across cores.
Yeah, I did set it for all cores, not just a few.
Your temperatures are normal for AMD CPUs. They tend to idle higher compared to Intel, usually sitting in the 40-50°C range. If you're curious about your idle wattage, use a program like HWINFO to monitor it when the system is doing nothing. That can give you a clearer picture of what's going on with your power usage.
I used MX-4 and didn't notice any change, plus I removed the plastic sticker on the cooler.