Recent content by Torch1963

Been a few days since I worked on it and two hundred dollars later I found out a few things, the fans that come with the coolers and cases are trash. I saved them for a mediocre build, bought top o the line PWM, mag-lev 2500 rpm fans in push-pull on exhaust yes (6) and a controller for the board...

Great news, I am not sure I got enough on the back of the CPU when I installed the jacket and it's only been a few days. I will clean it and try the Mx4 since I already ordered it. I have to re-install the heatsink on my Core i5 anyway. Thanks for the advice.

I have always found the stock cooler on every build to be lacking ability, be careful, I don't know the AMD's but he stock paste is usually not good enough.

You guys were right, set Thermostat to 23.9c and it maxes under load well (as much as I can load it) to 60c and I get a 7c differential between intake and exhaust, perfect as far as I am concerned. Thank you all for you information. Btw I am running a PNY 1070ti GPU, not the best, but expensive...

Thank you for all your help, time to crank up the AC sounds like 28-30c ambient is the target temp. My fault for living in the hottest place in California.

The 9900k will self OC without overvolt, mine runs between 4.6-4.9 just on load situations.

Thank you so much for the info, I used Arctic Silver 5, but I have ordered Mx4 to try. I just don't like to see 60+ in the maxes on a new one, makes me think I did something wrong.

I just built a ground up Computer but it still seems to be running hot to me. Corsair 450D high airflow mid tower case, Corsair RM750X PS, ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E Gaming MB, Intel 9900k Coffee Lake, Corsair Vengance 3600 X32g, Corsair H150i-PRO LC. 3X140mm intake, Exhaust through Cooler 3X120mm...

You are correct, the SSD will not show a performance difference with multiple applications, but the ram sure will, especially tuned sets of high bandwidth ram.

Can you find the windows patch that reloads the wrong driver and remove it from the list, you should be able to block it from being installed again. Those auto driver updaters are real bad about that.

32Gig SSD will not even load Windows 10.

If you are Gaming for the most part, the Memory will make the biggest difference.