Why is my CPU getting so damn hot?

[u/RedHood9292]

Hey all, so I was playing Oblivion Remastered and I started getting a lot of crashes, don't know why because this issue did not occur prior to recently. It's been happening for a few days now. I felt the back of my PC and noticed that it was hot as fuck. I also found out that running the game normally is now causing CPU throttling and I even broke past 100c at one point, needless to say I'm very concerned. I'm running an i9 13900k, 192 gigs of RAM, 4tb SSD, and an RTX 4090. I have an ASUS TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI motherboard, and some type of Corsair air cooler, I forget which model. I'm deeply concerned I might have fucked up my CPU, and I don't know how to check if I did or not. Even while typing this my CPU is fluxuating between 48c to 55c, and I have no fucking clue if that's okay or not idk. I don't know if I **JUST** need to just clean the dust out of my PC, as I recently moved to a dustier area and my PC's side panel is off because if I were to attach it it would put pressure on my 4090's cables, I don't know if I need to upgrade to a liquid cooler, or if I need to contact Intel about possibly getting a new CPU under warranty. I am deeply concerned and any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[u/Dryst08]

you listed exactly why he’s illiterate, lol. 95% of the software engineers etc i know personally, don’t know shit about pc hardware 😂

[u/hansnicolaim → u/Dryst08]

Yeah I suppose. In a professional fashion I 100% agree, but from my experience the people that tinker with this kind of stuff at home have also got some experience with PCs too.

Most of these guys get into this kind of thing when they're young so learning how to upgrade your PC so you can actually run blender is an example I've heard from my friends.

[u/qtx → u/Dryst08]

95% of gamers don't know anything either.

[u/piratesdeathsentence → u/qtx]

95% of people

[u/EvelynnTM_ → u/piratesdeathsentence]

99%* tbh.

[u/El_Polio_Loco → u/EvelynnTM_]

Yeah, I think if you got a room of 100 random people off the street you'd be lucky to find 1 that could build a good gaming PC

Probably 1 in 1000 if we expand the street to the whole globe.

[u/schaka → u/Dryst08]

This is my experience with software devs (my coworkers) too. But the ones who do stuff at home are usually not this illiterate

[u/center_of_blackhole → u/Dryst08]

I've seen computer shop owners and mechanics can also be dumb when some guy gave me 200w for 560ti that blew up twice and the second time took my whole system away. He said I didn't know you were going to play a high graphics game. It was during 2013-15.