8350 overheat,new cooler

[nickg131]

Making a new topic hoping for exposure. Had an h60 on it, suddenly started auto shutting down due to heat. Figured it was the pump, bought an h110i gtx, no change, replaced chip, no change, replaced mobo, no change, replaced psu,no change

Windows 7 64
Amd 8350
Corsair 1050 psu
H60 then h110i gtx coolers
Asrock 970 then 990 mobo

Wtf is going on?

 

[SkyMembrane]

If you replaced everything and it's still overheating, you probably didn't install it properly. Are you sure the Thermal Paste was properly applied and the connection between the CPU and the pump was done correctly? Are you sure you installed both coolers correctly? Both coolers are more than capable of cooling an 8350, no matter if it's stock clock'd or not. I don't know how long you can keep your computer open, but try installing Corsairlink to measure the performances of your current cooler. If the fan and the pumps are working like they should, then you didn't install it correctly.

 

[nickg131]

If you replaced everything and it's still overheating, you probably didn't install it properly. Are you sure the Thermal Paste was properly applied and the connection between the CPU and the pump was done correctly? Are you sure you installed both coolers correctly? Both coolers are more than capable of cooling an 8350, no matter if it's stock clock'd or not. I don't know how long you can keep your computer open, but try installing Corsairlink to measure the performances of your current cooler. If the fan and the pumps are working like they should, then you didn't install it correctly.

Everything was installed correctly. It was checked, double, and triple checked. Trust me, everything was plugged in fine. I followed the manual for the cooler, and even plugged in the SATA power for the h110i cooler which the manual neglects to inform you is required to run. Seriously, "it wasn't plugged in right" is NOT the answer.

I'm sorry for being so blunt but I'm in an awful mood because none of this makes sense. I had a friend of mine take a look, who ALSO (that means I am included) works/worked in tech within the last 3 years, and he is stumped. The ONLY thing I can think of now is that my original H60 pump WAS bad, and I drew the short straw and got a bad H110i cooler, DOA, bad out of box, and ended up wasting hundreds of dollars replacing the CPU and mobo due to shitty quality control on pumps.

 

[SkyMembrane]

Sorry for questioning your installation, but all kind of people come here to ask questions, and when there isn't more precision about the case, I start with the basis. Now, if you gave those precisions right away, I would've skipped that part. I know the Corsair Hydro manuals are bad, the picture for installing the fans on the H80i GT radiator showed both fans pulling air inside the radiator and none actually pushing the air away, creating a conflicting airflow and making it completely useless, worse than the stock Intel cooler.

You didn't precise anything about it, so I'll ask, did you run a test with the stock AMD cooler to see what difference it makes?

While it's easy to call it defective right away, the reviews on Amazon and Newegg don't seem to indicate that either of them have a higher failure rate than the norm, so the odds of you getting 2 bad ones aren't very high. That is the reason why I don't want to just use the ''It's defective, get something else'' card unless it's really the case... I mean CPUs have a higher failure chance than coolers most of the time...

 

[niroshido]

Hi Nick,

I can understand your frustration. The following is my list of recommendations, I understand a lot has already been done already but I feel it may be worth going back over some stuff again.

Thermal paste - insuring that this is spread out evenly and properly is important
Fans directions- check to insure the fans are set up correctly, insuring that the flow of air is correct (sometimes fans may blow air in, may not be blowing air out of the system).
Fan speed - check to insure that settings are not set to minimum, if fan speed is low you can almost expect slow fans to fail at bringing in fresh air or removing heated air

Some questions on my mind:
When exactly is your PC shutting down, you say it "suddenly auto shuts down" but when exactly is it doing this, on BIOS? after a few minutes? from the word suddenly one can only assume that no changes has been made to the system and this auto shut down has resulted

You said you have replaced a lot of equipment, what equipment has not been replaced at this point, what about graphics card, is there a gcard plugged in and have you double checked that the fans + heatsink is correct on this too? or what about fans, you talked about the h60 and h110i, but what about the case fans? are the air intakes clear (dust free) and all fans working correctly?

please be aware, that while we do our best to help, we need to work with what you answers you provide.

the PC auto-shutting down is an expected system response due to over heating. So my mind is on the following: fans not working, fans functioning below normal, fans not circulating air correctly due to misconfig, heatsinks not seated correctly and unable to absorb heat, heatsinks becoming dislocated (this has happened to me on some graphics cards where the heatsink loses contact with the surface of the chipset), inadequate ventilation (inlets/outlets blocked outside or inside the case)

 

[XpJAY]

Hi Nick. How goes the troubleshooting? Did you change the BIOS settings on the old board and have you changed the BIOS settings on the new board?