Barnes
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I’m happy to help you diagnose your issues, with the hopes that we don’t need to leave your PC in a permanently underclocked state. With some advanced settings, you can tell your AMD Ryzen software to lower your PC’s performance while playing Conan Exiles, and it can do it automatically.
Unlike the Intel chips that compete with it, the Ryzen X in your case can run “permanently” at its TMax (both Theoretical and Temperature Maximum) with no damage to your components or the longevity of the PC. 95C is, according to AMD, not the actual package temperature so it’s all “good.”
However, and this is crucial, when your CPU’s speed and cache are set to “auto,” any high-performance app like a 3D game will use up every available resource. Which means it will hungrily devour all your CPU speed, even if it doesn’t need it. When your CPU reaches TMax, it will allow no further processing without skipping some, which can cause hitches and full on Fatal Exceptions. Happily, your system is strong enough to handle it.
If I were you, I’d look into scenarios where your PC is underclocked to a stable (non-variable) voltage while playing CE. At 1440p and Epic, you should easily push 60 FPS+, while your CPU is only at about 84C in very congested (built up) areas. For the longevity of your other components (and this is with the knowledge of the high quality of your system case and its ventilation), I’d work on getting the CPU thermal “debt” down to around 85C maximum.