Yikes, that is something. At one time in my own business I had a Unix service, about 25 PC's (terminal in Unix and windows based for other). I had a backup server die one night and that was a good things because the server blew just after a midnight backup (off premise).

I have lots of air space as well and keep it clean (my box is a large gaming box with lots of "space". I expect to do a lot more video this year and thus will just keep the variable MHZ settings to keep things "cool".

2½ decades ago, in the land of 120MHz CPUs, 2" fans and no graphics fan, the rule was, "Render video at stock."

I still follow that rule, and don't feel like I've missed out on that much in life.

If you own a real system cooling system, its will conquer ALL the heat issues, even with overclocked CPU with 16 cores on tap. Heat is no longer an issue ever.

If you own a real system cooling system, its will conquer ALL the heat issues, even with overclocked CPU with 16 cores on tap. Heat is no longer an issue ever.

Absolutely. I recommend a cooling tower array in this type of configuration:

If you own a real system cooling system, its will conquer ALL the heat issues, even with overclocked CPU with 16 cores on tap. Heat is no longer an issue ever.

Absolutely. I recommend a cooling tower array in this type of configuration:

 

Believed me. When its come to CPU heat. I don't need any recommendation. What I had is what I need is more than enough.

Just a reminder, cooling is good but dust is a killer. Blow or suck that dust out when you are having heat problems.

setting a CPU throttle to activate at a certain heat level should overcome this situation. When it gets hot it drops the speed. With my liquid cooling / mobo I can auto adjust fan speed from virtually stand still (silent) to 100% based on a thermal response curve that can be adjusted manually if need be. never had an issue that way. You edit in silence and when its time to render, blow some smoke. Make sure you got good unabstruced air flow in your chassis, and clean your filters.

Also bear in mind your room temperature and hence the temperature of the air being blown through.

Did your computer shut down due to you being overly cautious and setting the bios temperature too low for auto shutdown? You mentioned a 7700 cpu not K, and did not mention over clocking your GPU. Under natural conditions if you do not have enough ventilation in system, both cpu and gpu throttle themselves until they are at acceptable temperature

I had an auto shutdown once, checked bios , it was set to 70 degrees, I raised it 10 degrees and never had a problem with shutdown or thermal throttling of cpu or gpu

Standard Over clock @ 4400 from 4200 with 15 seconded time limit. Temp Max thermal control 100. Am going to do a stress test with the intel app and see what happens. Greatly appreciate all who responded.

Did a stress test, rest warning to 85C, System ran fast and stayed below 69C. Don't know what happened before but apparently it had nothing to do with the cooling. Did the same render no problems.

@D7K Your I7-7700 is known for producing random temperature spikes so you might want to Google I7-7700 & "temperature spikes" to see if there are any new solutions to this problem.

If you own a real... cooling system, it will conquer ALL the heat issues, even with overclocked CPU with 16 cores on tap. Heat is no longer an issue ever.

@BruceUSA Not necessarily... Every time each of us buys a CPU we play the "silicon lottery"...  Some cool & overclock better than others regardless how much you spend on a cooling system... Your 1950X is effectively (2) 8-core 1800X CPUs connected via infinity fabric in a 72mm X 55mm space... About 50% of them will hit 4.0 ghz with high-end liquid cooling like you have, so apparently you have a better one...

At least in the "silicon lottery" you can always resell your CPU for a small loss & pay a little more to get one guaranteed to reach faster overclocks... In contrast, we play the "socket lottery" each time we invest in a new chip platform... Intel has done it in the past, but this time AMD appears to have abandoned socket TR4 in favor of socket TRX4 therefore preventing X399 motherboards from accepting modern Threadripper 3 CPUs... I didn't choose X399 in 2019 partly because of the lack of official/reliable Thunderbolt 3 support, an Intel proprietary technology.  However, one of the selling points for Threadripper 1 & 2 was the expectation that I could drop-in a 3rd generation CPU without having to rebuild my entire system...

2½ decades ago, in the land of 120MHz CPUs, 2" fans and no graphics fan, the rule was, "Render video at stock." I still follow that rule, and don't feel like I've missed out on that much in life.

My rule is to find the overclock setting where they can run a 24 hour stress test & then throttle it back one step, or in the case of my 9900K, to 4.9ghz where the radiator fans also become silent... Mine & about 50% of the (early) 9900K easily overclock to 5.0 ghz on air, but I'm using a $140 Corsair H150i self-contained liquid cooler with 3-fan radiator to keep it dead-quiet @ 4.9 ghz for nearby sound recording... Since my VEGA 64 LQ has its own separate liquid cooling loop w/1 fan radiator, I can tweak both my CPU & GPU individually so they run at full-load without spinning up the fans... Other than the 4 radiator fans & 1 power supply fan pushing air out of the case, I do not have any other fans in my 9900K case. In comparison, my old air-cooled Xeons have extra case fans & require more periodic dust-removal...