What’s the easiest way to enhance your gaming PC’s core temperature? I dunno, take it out in a blizzard? Chinese language content material creator 苏打baka (opens in new tab) (the identify apparently interprets to ‘glowing fool’, for the non-weebs) is aiming to show you do not want LN2 to get your high-end CPU to sub-zero temps. Traipsing by means of the Northern snow drifts of China’s Mohe metropolis, temperatures hit a record-low of -53°C which has made for some ice-cold PC gaming thermals.
Relatively than bundling up inside with a pleasant cup of tea, 苏打baka determined to make use of the sub zero temperatures to their benefit, taking an Intel Core i9 13900K (opens in new tab) and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) combo gaming PC into the snow for a fast session (by way of WCCFTech (opens in new tab)).
Certainly one of our important issues the place the Intel Core i9 13900K is worried, was with its core temperature—”Scorching” being a significant draw back we listed. In testing we noticed it climb to 94°C max temperatures, and whereas that is nonetheless decrease than the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X’s (opens in new tab) 96°C, it should be a trigger for concern in the event you’re actually pushing the boundaries of what this CPU can do for prolonged durations.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 does a bit of higher not less than, with 66°C max temps. Nonetheless, it is sufficient to say you are going to want some immense cooling to maintain up with a machine packing this top-tier combo.
Preliminary testing of these -53°C winds of Mohe managed to drop an Intel 2nd/third Gen CPU gen CPU all the way down to -2°C as a normal working temperature. And even when confronted with an AIDA64 benchmark stress take a look at it topped out at round 3°C with no cooler in any respect.
Then got here the Intel thirteenth Gen monster, which they examined with an AIO cooler. For a short while anyway. That subsequently froze and have become completely ineffective, however when changed with a Noctua NH-P1 passive heatsink, and a weird, whining array of tiny industrial followers, the CPU dropped to round 10–15°C. With that sort of headroom, 苏打baka noticed the chip itself run as much as 6.18GHz, regardless of the max P-core Turbo frequency being rated at 5.8GHz.
As for the RTX 4090, effectively that stayed at round -40°C temperatures, with a most temperature of 30°C beneath full load—which was achieved by means of taking part in *checks notes* Minesweeper?
An odd selection of recreation, and doubtless a joke contemplating the soar in temperatures. Both method, this not less than confirms the creator’s not such a glowing fool in spite of everything. For those who’re having temperature points, simply fly out to northern China for a spell. Simple.
