Corsair H60 heating issue

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I have a H60 in push pull setup. The pump is working from what I can see and both fans are mounted onto the back of my case pushing and pulling hot air out. I have taken the H60 out and replied thermal paste and made sure the mounting bracket was on correctly, but my problem is using programs like prim95 and intel burn test. The temps shoot up to about 170 F/ 76 C. I always stop the programs as soon as they start out of fear that I am about to cook something :??:
I have a cooler master HAF12 and an intel i5 4670K overclocked to 4.2 Ghz. The volts are 1.22. My idle temps are 35 C to 38 C.
 
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Yea like I said the H60/80 seems more of a "I don't want to overclock but I want my PC to be quieter" solution to CPU cooling.

Yes Running PRIME95 and getting super high temps does happen and as the Corsair Rep did ask, what are your temps when gaming? If you need to find out and have an Android Phone/Tablet Trigone Software has some really nice remote monitoring programs I...
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Yea my dad has the H60 on his FX-8350. I don't the temps seem pretty hot for his CPU (But then the pump did and he had to use stock fan for a bit and it ran at like 60C all the time with the fan at 7000 RPM so yea better than stock fan haha)

I have a H100i on my 8320 though with a 1Ghz over clock and it never get above 40-45 even with full load and on Prime95. The H60 may just not be able to cool it down enough or the pump isn't working to its full speed. If you go into you BIOS look at the RPM of what ever Fan head the pump is plugged into to see how fan the pump is pumping.
 
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I dropped a pea size on top and let the block spread it out while tightening the screws. I used arctic silver 5. My idle temps are good, but even at 3.4 Ghz my temps are in the red.

 
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it could be. Thought my dad had the 8350 but it is a 8320. He is running stock so it is at 3.5 and it idles at like 50C on the H60 so it could be that it just isn't enough. Like i said my H100 cools my 8320 OCed to 4.5 and never gets higher than like 40-45 when i have it set to performance mode (Fans are the loudest but the CPU stays very cool) or if i set it to quite (Fans are at their lowest) it still barely hits 60.

Me I see the H60 as a water cooler to get just so people can say they have a water cooler XD No offence haha. Do you have another water cooler/heat sink to use? Maybe even try the stock fan, and see what your temps are at idle/load and compare them?
 
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No offense taken. I thought the H60 was good by the reviews I read, but I guess not. It seems to be working fine. Just not good enough for my rig. I have the stock Intel cooler still :) Tomorrow I will take the H60 off and install the stock cooler and see what I get and compare the temps. I will probably be getting the H100i, but can you recommend witch one? Corsair seems to make many different types of this model.
 
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Your pump is perfectly fine, it's running well within spec. Those load temps are not the worst considering your 4670K is OC'd to 4.2 under Prime. Keep in mind that P95 is a very CPU intensive application that stresses the hell out of your CPU, pretty much the worst case scenario. If your system is stable under Prime for 24hrs with those temps, then you are fine because your CPU is never going to be under that much stress with real world applications.

 
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I tried the stock cooler and my idle temps were better by a few degrees, but under load it went up into the 80s!! I put the H60 back on and applied thermal paste in a line this time and my temps are few degrees better :) I am still getting the h100i and there is two models from what I can see. There is yours and then there is a H100i high performance one.

 
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Under Prime? If yes, that's totally fine. Like what I said, real world applications will not stress your CPU like Prime does.

What is your CPU temp while gaming? or application that you use the most? If I had to guess, it's significantly lower than Prime load temps.
 
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Yea like I said the H60/80 seems more of a "I don't want to overclock but I want my PC to be quieter" solution to CPU cooling.

Yes Running PRIME95 and getting super high temps does happen and as the Corsair Rep did ask, what are your temps when gaming? If you need to find out and have an Android Phone/Tablet Trigone Software has some really nice remote monitoring programs I install on ALL my PC's.

But if you are worried about the temps, want cooler when running more then yea a H100 or higher would be better.

And for the models all i can find is the high performance one too lol not sure exactly which one i have. Either would should suffice.

Like I said. When i set it to Performance Mode in the Corsair Link software, and run PRIME95 the Fans get loud, that is for sure, but I rarely see them above 45ish when maxed out after an hour or so.

This for me is good because I do a lot of Video Converting (Converting my few terabytes of stuff from AVI/MKV to MP4) and this helps keep the CPU Cooler, and my 4.5 GHZ OC stable. Should cool your i5 down pretty nice.

 
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My temps are not that high while playing 130F/140F, but I am going to go ahead and buy the h100i high performance soon. I believe the H60 is just not good enough to cool my rig. It might work better on a AMD build, but not an Intel build. These Haswell chips just run way to hot and require aggressive cooling from what I have read.
 
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IDK. Intel's at least work fine when non OC'ed on stock coolers. My dads 8320, when his H60 died, had to use the Stock Fan. Idle temps where like 55C and the fan ran at Max RPM of like 7000 lol

Most of the i7 intels and lower run just fine (non oced) on stock fans most of the time.
 
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i ran into an issue with the h60 corsair cooler ,i managed to figure it out it seems but this is what happened to me ,i had the pump plugged into the cpu fan header and the fan on the outside of the radiator plugged into the system fan header,on installation of my new motherboard i noticed the system was quiet and the fan on the back wasnt running too fast,however on playing games my pc would shut down and the pipes inside of the radiator and the actual pump header on the motherboard were feeling very hot indeed,i had some temperature software installed but didnt know what to make of it though my bios showed 71c cpu temp,my cpu is an amd a10 7700k, I went into bios settings and put the system fan speed onto maximum ,the pump was at 4500 and that didnt change.Now when i switched on my pc the fan was on maximum but on playing games the pc didnt shut down and the pump,pipes and radiator never got hot to touch,cpu and gpu temperatures were alot lower showing 49 degrees in bios,now i just put the fan onto maximum whilst playing games and turn it to normal while just using the pc in normal operation.
 
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