- Jul 16, 2014
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Hello,
I recently purchased a Corsair H100i V2 to cool my i7-3770K overclocked to 4.3 GHz. I installed the cooler at the top of my case (The Cooler Master Mastercase Maker 5T) and installed the fans as intake. However, when I booted the computer, the idles were in the mid 40s to early 50's, and while gaming it went up to the early 60's at some parts. This can't be right as I had similar results with my previous cooler, the Cryorig H7. I set the two fans as blowing air from PC and it had similar temps. I left the 140 mm fans that came with my case (two front intake and one rear exhaust) I have the fans installed into the splitter that came attached to the water block. I just used the thermal paste that came on it.
Is there anything I might have done wrong? This is my first water cooler installation and I may have messed something up. If you have any ideas please let me know!
UPDATE: I had a friend come over and we tried a few things. We tried reseating the cooler and making sure it was tightly installed, it didn't work. We put some replacement thermal paste on it, as the water block appears to have a scorch mark on it, so we're thinking the included thermal paste wasn't of the best quality. That made the temps stay at late 30's ish during idle, occasionally popping back up to the 40's, and gaming was the same. Whenever I played a game, I checked the Corsair LINK software, and while my computer idled the cooler itself stayed at 28 C at all times. When I was playing my games and even now, 10 minutes after I stopped playing, its hovering at 33 C. I heard the fans ramp up a little bit during gaming and they are still at that speed. Does this mean anything?
I recently purchased a Corsair H100i V2 to cool my i7-3770K overclocked to 4.3 GHz. I installed the cooler at the top of my case (The Cooler Master Mastercase Maker 5T) and installed the fans as intake. However, when I booted the computer, the idles were in the mid 40s to early 50's, and while gaming it went up to the early 60's at some parts. This can't be right as I had similar results with my previous cooler, the Cryorig H7. I set the two fans as blowing air from PC and it had similar temps. I left the 140 mm fans that came with my case (two front intake and one rear exhaust) I have the fans installed into the splitter that came attached to the water block. I just used the thermal paste that came on it.
Is there anything I might have done wrong? This is my first water cooler installation and I may have messed something up. If you have any ideas please let me know!
UPDATE: I had a friend come over and we tried a few things. We tried reseating the cooler and making sure it was tightly installed, it didn't work. We put some replacement thermal paste on it, as the water block appears to have a scorch mark on it, so we're thinking the included thermal paste wasn't of the best quality. That made the temps stay at late 30's ish during idle, occasionally popping back up to the 40's, and gaming was the same. Whenever I played a game, I checked the Corsair LINK software, and while my computer idled the cooler itself stayed at 28 C at all times. When I was playing my games and even now, 10 minutes after I stopped playing, its hovering at 33 C. I heard the fans ramp up a little bit during gaming and they are still at that speed. Does this mean anything?
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