The other day while gaming I noticed very quick freezes. It made me believe that either something is under heavy load or it's throttling because of high temperatures and voilà!
I bought this PC in 2014 and all I ever did was remove the dust from time to time and replace the thermal paste maybe once. That is probably not enough maintenance. I had overheating problems maybe a year ago. I don't know what happened then but it resolved itself. Since then I have not been monitoring the temperatures. After googling a bit I thought that maybe my water cooling rig is not working because an air bubble is trapped somewhere inside the pump and so that's what I did:
■ I placed the whole case on its side overnight.
■ Next day I couldn't turn it on using my power button. Funny enough I noticed an orange glowing power on button on my motherboard. Using it booted my PC like normal.
■ First the temps were around 35°C. Then they rose to 60°C idle and finally 99°C when I started up a game. They never fell back down even after shutting down the game.
■ So I thought it's time for dusting again. I unplugged the GPU and cleaned it with my airbrush. I then unscrewed the radiator and the water pump from the CPU. However, I couldn't find the fan connection to the motherboard to unplug it and I just cleaned the whole PC case with the radiator still in.
■ I replaced the thermal paste and screwed everything back in. While opening and closing the case I noticed that the LED strips were not working. The one on the bottom of the case seemed to have a bad contact and the one on the top side barely glowed at all but it DID glow.
■ This is when I noticed none of my fans working. The only two that were still spinning are the ones on top of the H100i radiator.
■ Another thing I seem to have in common with other owners of the H100i is the rattling sound (of the pump maybe) that goes away if you tilt the case just a little bit. This sound is usually never there.
So here I am. While googling I noticed that a case is supposed to have airflow in one direction. From the photos that are in that album, can you tell if my fans are set up the right way at all? Front fans sucking the air inward, the rear fan pushing the air out of the case and the H100i radiator is on the upper side with fans ontop of it blowing the air out of the case.
I bought this PC in 2014 and all I ever did was remove the dust from time to time and replace the thermal paste maybe once. That is probably not enough maintenance. I had overheating problems maybe a year ago. I don't know what happened then but it resolved itself. Since then I have not been monitoring the temperatures. After googling a bit I thought that maybe my water cooling rig is not working because an air bubble is trapped somewhere inside the pump and so that's what I did:
■ I placed the whole case on its side overnight.
■ Next day I couldn't turn it on using my power button. Funny enough I noticed an orange glowing power on button on my motherboard. Using it booted my PC like normal.
■ First the temps were around 35°C. Then they rose to 60°C idle and finally 99°C when I started up a game. They never fell back down even after shutting down the game.
■ So I thought it's time for dusting again. I unplugged the GPU and cleaned it with my airbrush. I then unscrewed the radiator and the water pump from the CPU. However, I couldn't find the fan connection to the motherboard to unplug it and I just cleaned the whole PC case with the radiator still in.
■ I replaced the thermal paste and screwed everything back in. While opening and closing the case I noticed that the LED strips were not working. The one on the bottom of the case seemed to have a bad contact and the one on the top side barely glowed at all but it DID glow.
■ This is when I noticed none of my fans working. The only two that were still spinning are the ones on top of the H100i radiator.
■ Another thing I seem to have in common with other owners of the H100i is the rattling sound (of the pump maybe) that goes away if you tilt the case just a little bit. This sound is usually never there.
So here I am. While googling I noticed that a case is supposed to have airflow in one direction. From the photos that are in that album, can you tell if my fans are set up the right way at all? Front fans sucking the air inward, the rear fan pushing the air out of the case and the H100i radiator is on the upper side with fans ontop of it blowing the air out of the case.