My PC been overheating a lot lately, maybe someone use it to mine BTC??

[david1919RNDR]

So my desktop start overheating like crazy these days. Idk what’s going on tbh. It’s not a weak setup or anything — got Ryzen 9, 32 gigs of RAM, and a RTX 4090 (yea kinda overkill lol). But even when I just watching YouTube or doing nothing, the fans just go wild.

I check Task Manager but can’t see nothing weird… maybe I just miss it? Could be someone hacked it and mining bitcoin or some crypto stuff? I heard ppl can do that without you even know.

Not really sure how to check this kind of thing, if anyone know what to look for pls tell. Maybe it’s just Windows being dumb again idk lol.

Thanks guys appreciate it 🙏

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

If your PC is overheating these days, then try to check on some other these things to know if they are in proper conditions.

1. The cooling fan
2. Changes in the boost time or appearance of some settings or features.
3. Run a check on background apps and other things running once the system is on.

If you're into cryptocurrency, then I don't expect you to share your system with anyone, because they may compromise things for you, knowingly or unknowingly to them.

[Asuspawer09]

Dont overthink it, is it possible? Maybe you could use someone's pc on to mine, But I could imagine it wasnt going to be that easy to do, and even though its possible it doesnt mean its going to happen on your pc that easily. Unless you're doing something that might cause it, or you're probably downloading some unknown application on the internet, it might cause some random application running on the background and your personal computer might be compromised already so you might need to reformat. If you know that your not really doing something like that and your not downloading anything your computer is probably fine. I mean it might be fine since fan for sure is going to activate when you activate the gpu, like watching video, do you have a 4k display?

What's the brand of your computer fan? There might be some customization or software that you could use to control your fan speed, when you watch youtube it might is surely going to activate. You might need to check some applications on your task manager, or just uninstall the application that you dont really install, you dont need to worry since if you can delete it or uninstall it that just means it wasn't important. Double check as well, it might be a hardware issue having something on your fan, or fan just have a high frequency sound.

[nc50lc]

But even when I just watching YouTube or doing nothing, the fans just go wild.

You must be famous to have fans like that.

Joking aside, sometimes fan speed doesn't necessarily indicates high temp.
You should check your system's reported temps and fan rpm settings before jumping to conclusion that it's overheating.
HWiNFO tool should be able to show those temps and Nvidia's control panel for the GPU's fan curve, UEFI/BIOS for the CPU's fan settings.

I check Task Manager but can’t see nothing weird… maybe I just miss it? Could be someone hacked it and mining bitcoin or some crypto stuff? I heard ppl can do that without you even know.

If there's something like a mining malware/virus, your Windows Defender should be able to detect it since it's notorious for blocking even legit mining software.

But since you want to manually investigate:
Try to reproduce the behavior that causes the fans to spin hard, then open your Task manager,
In your Task Manager: Enable GPU Process view by right-clicking on "Name" and tick 'GPU', then check for the process with the highest CPU or GPU usage.
If there's one suspicious app, investigate it, e.g.: even your browser can have a malicious extensions installed.
If none, perhaps it's just a hardware issue where the thermal paste/pad is not properly applied.
Or just overall inefficiency with the airflow.

Anyways, it's more of a Computer Hardware problem than Bitcoin-related at that point.

[hugeblack]

Mine BTC no, Cryptocurrency mining is possible. Monitor CPU activity when idle (not running any software/threads). If there is increased activity, it is best to format and reinstall the operating system.

[ABCbits]

I check Task Manager but can’t see nothing weird… maybe I just miss it?

By nothing weird, do you mean there's no process that have high CPU/GPU usage or total CPU/GPU usage is low?

Could be someone hacked it and mining bitcoin or some crypto stuff? I heard ppl can do that without you even know.

FYI, computer CPU and GPU is far too inefficient to mine Bitcoin compared with ASIC. What actually possible is someone mine altcoin (that could be mined profitably on CPU/GPU) on your PC.

[Ayebabara]

Could be someone hacked it and mining bitcoin or some crypto stuff?

Aha! It wouldn't. It is either a hardware or software problem. You can check your cooling fan to see if it is working well and if it is not working well, you have to replace it. And also check the processor, and I suggest you change those two hardware components for the good condition of the system.

[NotATether]

FYI, computer CPU and GPU is far too inefficient to mine Bitcoin compared with ASIC. What actually possible is someone mine altcoin (that could be mined profitably on CPU/GPU) on your PC.

It wouldn't matter, because a browser tab could just run a little XMR crypto miner and use up all the cores.

[lovesmayfamilis]

There's a utility called Miner Search on GitHub. I don't want to link to it, but if you know how to use search, you can easily find it.

[ultrloa]

So my desktop start overheating like crazy these days. Idk what’s going on tbh. It’s not a weak setup or anything — got Ryzen 9, 32 gigs of RAM, and a RTX 4090 (yea kinda overkill lol). But even when I just watching YouTube or doing nothing, the fans just go wild.

I check Task Manager but can’t see nothing weird… maybe I just miss it? Could be someone hacked it and mining bitcoin or some crypto stuff? I heard ppl can do that without you even know.

Not really sure how to check this kind of thing, if anyone know what to look for pls tell. Maybe it’s just Windows being dumb again idk lol.

Thanks guys appreciate it 🙏

Over heating means there's a system  or hardware issue on your PC. It doesn't mean that someone is mining in your PC.

Maybe best to look at your CPU if its filled with dust clean it since this might be the reason on why your PC is over heating, also check your fans if its still working. Your pc might also experiencing a overclocking pushing your CPU to its factory limit might also be the reason of that issue. Last check your thermal paste maybe put new since it can help to avoid overheating.