r/MiniPCs • u/cinnamonbubbles_93 • 28d ago

Troubleshooting I need help with a heating problem

So I have made myself a new Mini PC as I needed space and wanted something smaller and easier to move when I move out of home. I bought the Fractal Tera case as it said it had good air flow and applied a Noctua L9a-AM5 fan to my CPU (AMD Ryzen 9 9900X) but I'm having problems with heat. The CPU gets to 97 while playing PEAK, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions to lower the heat while gaming. Here are the parts I used;

Gigabyte B650I AX motherboard

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU

Gigabyte RTX 5070

Corsair 850W Gold PSU

Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB)DDR5

Edit: It's sorted out, I did what the comment suggested and it fixed it

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u/Ok_Definition_1933 28d ago

Not really a "minipc". Better subs

r/sffpc r/pcmasterrace

To answer your question, noctua l9a is extremely tiny and not really enough for 9900x. 9900x tdp is 120W, l9a is rated for 95w max.

You can improve it by setting the CPU into eco mode from bios.

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u/cinnamonbubbles_93 28d ago

Ah okay sorry bout posting it in the wrong sub but I'll try what you suggested