I have an Intel Core i5-14600KF paired with a be quiet! Pure Rock Pro 3 dual-fan tower cooler, but I’m still experiencing high CPU temperatures and a lower-than-expected Cinebench score.
I installed the new cooler using the thermal paste supplied with it. Both fans are working, the cooler appears to be mounted correctly, and my case has five fans providing airflow.
Despite upgrading to a significantly larger cooler, my Cinebench score has not improved. In fact, it dropped slightly from 4,846 to 4,765 points. The CPU still reaches temperatures close to 100°C and appears to be thermally throttling under a multi-core workload.
I’m trying to understand why the performance is lower than expected and why the Pure Rock Pro 3 struggles to keep the i5-14600KF cooler at around 180 W of power consumption.