[NAME]  Yeah [NAME] is right, if you change the stock fans you cannot rely on built in thermal profiles, Balanced and Performance profiles will not give the fans enough speed to cool the CPU. Make sure those sandwich fans never cut out, monitor them while testing. For me on my i9-9900k in R8, +80 offset was the max I could do in a custom thermal profile to ensure the fans never cut out under load. Example curve: [IMAGE]Top fan ML 120 Pro(s) example curve CPU-Z benchmark at max fan speed kept CPU at 65°. If you are not yet satisfied with upper temperatures, consider an upper front intake fan in the HDD bay.
I recently went from an I7 to an I9, and installed an H60 AIO from recommendations I've seen in here and other forums. Everything is running nicely, but I feel that the temps are too high. After the first boot, I reapplied the paste and changed the orientation so the pipes had more space, which improved the temps, but they are still in the 40 C-45 C range when idling and 80 C-90 C under load (reaching 100 C when I used  Aida64 to test)   Here's the full list of parts I have/added: - I9 9900k - Geforce RTX 2060 Super - 64 GB RAM Kingston Hyperx (4x16) - Corsair H60 AIO, with ML160 Pro and the ML160 in a push/pull config (I think? Both are aiming outwards) - Noctua NF-F12 PWM for Front fan - I used Arctic MX-4 for thermal paste   I would really appreciate any help you guys can give me
Aurora R9, I9 9900K H60 AIO, Idling at 40C