• What is the problem with my Water Cooling setup?
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For about a month now I have had my new system. I bought this computer with the following specs... - Thermaltake Armor+ LCS (It's practically the Thermaltake Armor+ but comes with a pre-installed water cooling setup.) - Intel i7 920 - Kingston 6G of 1600Mhz DDR3 - Gigabyte EX-58 Extreme Motherboard (Came with a Chipset waterblock.) This is what the water cooling setup looked like... [media]http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r342/icypenguin01/P1858_13-10-09.jpg[/media] At stock clocks, and idle, I got these temperatures... [media]http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r342/icypenguin01/P1855_13-10-09.jpg[/media] I realised they were a little high, especially for water cooling. When I bought I knew I would eventually want to overclock it. A couple of days ago, I tried to increase the CPU frequency to 3.5Ghz and the Core Voltage to 1.4v . When doing so I saw all cores shoot up to a temperature of 75-80C, and I stress tested the CPU at these temperatures for 5 minutes before returning all settings/clocks to stock. If you look at the image of the water cooling setup, you can see that the fluid comes from the top-right corner, enters the chipset waterblock, goes straight to the CPU then back to the reservior. Could the chipset be the cause of such high CPU temperatures? Disconnecting it from the water cooling loop wouldn't be an issue as the EX-58 Extreme has a great chipset heatsink.
Download [url=http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php]HWMonitor[/url] and look at your temps in there. If those are the same temps, what is the room temperature and how big is the heat sink for the water cooling setup.
See what you get if you make it only going to CPU and see what temps you get. Personally, I'd have it going to the CPU first then to the chipset
[QUOTE=Thor667;17810243]Download [url=http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php]HWMonitor[/url] and look at your temps in there. If those are the same temps, what is the room temperature and how big is the heat sink for the water cooling setup.[/QUOTE] Yes, the temperatures I get from HW Monitor are exactly the same as the one's I get from Rivatuner (that read out on my G15 LCD.) At the moment my room temperature is 30C. The heatsink is quite large. It spans right to the CPU lever device on the right and cover the CPU to the left (it's even slightly covering some mosfets on the left.)
It could be that the water block isn't designed for that kind of heat load, that the radiator isn't or even both.
is the heatsink making proper contact????
[QUOTE=shill le 2nd;17860181]is the heatsink making proper contact????[/QUOTE] Yes it's on nice and tight, plus today i'm going to take out the chipset waterblock, so only the CPU is watercooled. I'll post results.
sounds like it is a thermaltake watercooling kit, they don't do well with i7s. 1.4 V for 3.5 GHz is very high for a 920, why not put it at 1.3 and try there? It get very hot @ 1.4 Either way, 80c isn't hot at all for a i7. nothing to worry about.
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