Staffer1 Am I a candidate for replacing the pads and paste on my 3080ti? I'm also curious about the i7 11700 running so hot in this setup. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

CraptacularOne
Well a few things going against you: Your case despite how it may appear is not very good for air flow and your choice in cooler for your 11700K is also very poor as it's just not really capable of dealing with the heat load an 11700K is capable of generating. I would highly suggest replacing it with a better air cooler like the Noctua NH D15 or a Be Quiet Dark Rock 4 that can deal with the heat output of your CPU. 

kevinc313
I had a hard time believing this and there's no way it keeps a CPU running at 300w sustained from hitting 100C, but when running fast and loud it's only a bit behind a NH-D14:

Celeras

Staffer1
I opened the side of the case, turned the fans way up and even have a room fan blowing into the open case. But temps are still in the 80's while gaming. My office sounds like a server/switch room now and is giving me a slight headache. It's a shame to because I was excited to finally upgrade the PC. I will keep trying though. I'd love to move the damned thing into another room and just use 20 foot extension cables for everything . 

What does 80s mean? You said 88-94.. so going to low 80s is probably exactly what you should expect from opening the door if the case has poor airflow. That'd be a 10 degree improvement.

If it's still high 80s there may be other issues at play.

Roy10266
 

Staffer1
 
It's hovering around 82 -84c now during MSFS 2020. Precision X1 shows all 3 fans on auto. Case is pulling air in from the front and pushing it out the back of the case. There is allot of cable mess and stuff in the front of my case. Not the best at cable management. I could try that. 

LTT and others have shown us that cable management doesn't affect temps.

Roy10266

kevinc313

Roy10266
 

Staffer1
 
It's hovering around 82 -84c now during MSFS 2020. Precision X1 shows all 3 fans on auto. Case is pulling air in from the front and pushing it out the back of the case. There is allot of cable mess and stuff in the front of my case. Not the best at cable management. I could try that. 

LTT and others have shown us that cable management doesn't affect temps.

That LTT video is 5 years old and uses a blower style cooler that exhausts out of the case.  Anything that impedes air flow volume across a gpu is going to increase temps.  All these new high power cards need big case airflow to feed fresh air to their intake fans and move away warm exhaust air.  Most people with temp problems don't set their fans high enough and have some sort of poor flow config where the card loops back in its own warm exhaust.

They stuffed a shirt in there and it didn't have effect on the CPU either. I can say I had a mess of wires when I had a non-modular, and fixing it didn't change the temps at all. There's just not enough that could be blocking it.

kevinc313

Roy10266

kevinc313

Roy10266
 

Staffer1
 
It's hovering around 82 -84c now during MSFS 2020. Precision X1 shows all 3 fans on auto. Case is pulling air in from the front and pushing it out the back of the case. There is allot of cable mess and stuff in the front of my case. Not the best at cable management. I could try that. 

LTT and others have shown us that cable management doesn't affect temps.

That LTT video is 5 years old and uses a blower style cooler that exhausts out of the case.  Anything that impedes air flow volume across a gpu is going to increase temps.  All these new high power cards need big case airflow to feed fresh air to their intake fans and move away warm exhaust air.  Most people with temp problems don't set their fans high enough and have some sort of poor flow config where the card loops back in its own warm exhaust.

They stuffed a shirt in there and it didn't have effect on the CPU either. I can say I had a mess of wires when I had a non-modular, and fixing it didn't change the temps at all. There's just not enough that could be blocking it.

 
Obviously a few cables isn't going to have the same effect as a front rad, solid front panel or a bunch of hard drive cages.  The cables are going to have even less of an effect if they are in case that is already low airflow. 
 
That LLT "test" was done with a 180w (LOL) Reference GTX 980 and whatever CPU+load was only hitting 50C as a baseline with a Hyper 212, not high power either. You could do the same thing with a 3090 FTW3 and it would be at 90C in seconds.

Roy10266
If it's obvious then good. That's why I told him. You can run the same test with 280 watt, or 450 watt on the GPU if you want to with wires and it still won't matter.

Staffer1
 There is allot of cable mess and stuff in the front of my case.

Staffer1
I opened the side of the case, turned the fans way up and even have a room fan blowing into the open case. But temps are still in the 80's while gaming. My office sounds like a server/switch room now and is giving me a slight headache. It's a shame to because I was excited to finally upgrade the PC. I will keep trying though. I'd love to move the damned thing into another room and just use 20 foot extension cables for everything . 

CraptacularOne
Wow, I go out to a BBQ for the afternoon and come back and this thread is just brimming with bad advice and recommendations. 
 
1) I don' care what Zalman "rates" the CNPS9900 to be able to handle, the truth of the matter is that it simply cannot cope with the thermal load a 11700K is capable of generating. You want to base these assumptions on benchmarks done almost a decade ago with CPUs that couldn't even dream about sucking down as much power as the current gen Intel CPU, fine you believe whatever you want to believe, I on the other hand have a preference for "reality"