Recently I decided on getting a budget custom gaming PC made. Took a huge leap of faith and decided to go with the Intel Arc A750 as the GPU, instead of the usual NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Other components I got were the Ryzen 5 5500, MSi B550M Pro-VDH WIFI.
Immediately after I got it, I used my PC to play some games. Nothing GPU or CPU intensive. The GPU worked well enough for my needs, which is pretty good considering its price ($300~). It worked fine for the first few days, or maybe because I didn’t use it much then. Well afterwards, it started to blue screen mid-game very often. Was clueless on what was the problem, until during the blue screen it said something about my CPU overheating. I found that my Ryzen 5 5500 was running at 80 degrees with one application open, all other background tasks closed. Monitored it for awhile, max temperature reached about 90 degrees. Was getting pretty concerned that this would damage my CPU 🙁
Turns out, the stock cooler was not good enough for the CPU. It couldn’t keep it cool :/ I thought the stock cooler was enough for my PC build but I guess not. Sent it back to be swapped for a better heatsink (Cooler Master HYPER 212), and problem solved no more issues lol.
