Uh, what exactly is the issue? You're just making statements but not asking any question. Why do you think you have to do anything?

Shader compilation can be very, very heavy on CPUs. It may warm them up a lot.

If your CPU isn't throttling, then there is no problem. But if you have to underclock it to keep it from doing so, then your cooling probably isn't sufficient.

Underclocking the CPU shouldn't disable XMP. They are separate things.

Some games compile at first launch (changing video drivers resets this) so that they are ready to go ahead of time and don't need compiled during runtime, which may cause stutters. If you are bored during the time it needs to do this, then walk away and do something else while it does them?

Sounds like need better cooling but yea some games when it does the shader compile it can take a while just let it finsih

Fan running at full and the numbers are impressive. I'm not sure what it was but there was a smell.

Should i just ignore this?

Is the PC fairly new?

No, it's the recent one i posted about somewhere else.

I found something in the BIOS called "intel thermal technology", roughly.

What would happen if the CPU was running too hot over compiling shaders?

Originally posted by Aleddra:

What would happen if the CPU was running too hot over compiling shaders?

It would shut your PC down.

it's normal bro, you need better cooler , it always takes 100% cpu load when doing compiling stuff

Originally posted by Aleddra:

No, it's the recent one i posted about somewhere else.

I found something in the BIOS called "intel thermal technology", roughly.

What would happen if the CPU was running too hot over compiling shaders?

The CPU will simply lower clock speeds if it's overheating
CPUs are designed to be used and be loaded at 100% just fine. it's just that if your CPU is running into the point of thermal throttling then it will lower the clocks it is running at to protect the CPU from possible damage

If you are being very worried about it (which is totally fair) then I would look at an upgrade when it comes to the CPU cooling

What gpu do you have? If its rtx 40/50 series and it smels like something is melting it could be the power connector.

I looked in to this a little while ago and was advised that one way to go was to under-volt the CPU. I asked how to do that on this forum, it was a single, simple change in the PC BIOS and it reduced the temperatures by 10 degrees.
There is some other setting in the BIOS that can limit the boost temperature or something, but I didn't have to change that. Sorry, I'm vague, I don't remember the details about it, but the point is that there are solutions, you just need to keep on asking.

Everyone should try to undercolt the cpu at least slightly as it generally will always help to reduce heat overall. You will have to play around the vcore and offsets and see how low you can get ot while having a stable OS experience without crashing from it being too low.

Originally posted by Andrius227:

What gpu do you have? If its rtx 40/50 series and it smels like something is melting it could be the power connector.

It's not the GPU because the temperatures are fine on it. I monitor both.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Everyone should try to undercolt the cpu at least slightly as it generally will always help to reduce heat overall. You will have to play around the vcore and offsets and see how low you can get ot while having a stable OS experience without crashing from it being too low.

Yeah i'll underclock it again, shame.
The reason it turns off XMP is i set the scheme to manual to use the built in slider.

Originally posted by Aleddra:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Everyone should try to undercolt the cpu at least slightly as it generally will always help to reduce heat overall. You will have to play around the vcore and offsets and see how low you can get ot while having a stable OS experience without crashing from it being too low.

Yeah i'll underclock it again, shame.
The reason it turns off XMP is i set the scheme to manual to use the built in slider.

dont do that man, undervolt is like crippled your cpu deliberatly

Don't under-clock it at all. That will just hurt performance and will lengthen process times and projects such as make the shader compiling take even longer for example