Did my Liquid Cooler just die?

[W2PM]

My liquid cooler's been acting up when I noticed I kept crashing playing GTA V yesterday. I checked out my temps and it seems I was idling at 50c and hitting 100c+ on load. Obvs something was up so I opened up my comp and noticed the heatsink was a bit loose. I resinked it and noticed the thermal paste was all dried out but I turned it on anyway as I was planning to get some the next day. After resinking it I was getting 40c idle and roughly 85-90c on load and GTA stopped crashing.

Today I came home with some new paste and an airduster and I cleaned my GPU and liquid cooler. The radiator had built up a TONNE of dust that I completely didn't notice. Anyways, after cleaning all that off and putting a new layer of paste I was expecting to hit some pretty low temps. Unfortunately it's actually gotten a lot worse now I'm idling somewhere around 60c and I can't even run any games without the pc shutting down. Anyone have any suggestions? I resinked it several times and tried different angles, reduced the thermal paste, increased thermal paste, all had no effect to the high temperature. One of the tubes is slightly warm to the touch and the other is cool. The radiator is actually not even slightly warm after running for about 15 minutes. I'm currently hovering around 60c writing this post. Is my liquid cooler broken or what?

Its an all in one cooler (H60) btw. No overclocks or anything

Running an i5 3550, bios shows fan around 1500rpm and pump at 4500rpm.

Edit: Cleaned up by mod. Watch the swear words and please don't use them again.

 

[JayCee993]

One pipe being hot and the other cool means that you haven't got a loop, is your 3 Pin connector that comes from your CPU block connected to a 4 pin connector? sounds like your pump isn't plugged in correctly. Shift your 3 pin over one pin to the other side and post back results
Jason

 

[PapaWood]

yeah I'm with Jay. Perhaps something came undone during that process, certainly check that out, if its still bad maybe you can look into a warranty replacement, or start shopping for a new one.

 

[InvalidError]

Sounds like your pump is either not connected, not receiving power or not working. If the pump was running, temperature should be relatively even across the whole loop.

 

[4745454b]

Watch the use of swear words. Don't use them on this forum.

 

[W2PM]

Yeah I just double checked, the CPU block is connected to the 4pin CPU fan slot. I tried swapping the radiator fan and cpu block headers around and same result. The radiator is completely cool right now I even unplugged the radiator fan completely and ran the system for about 15minutes in which it idled around 55-60c. Is my pump broken?

 

[PapaWood]

What model was that cooler? There should be a power cable from the pump to the power supply, or at least all the models I've seen seem to have it.

 

[JayCee993]

If you even swapped it with a Mobo 3 pin fan connector which seems to be working, I'd honestly say that your pump has gone, I'd chuck on a stock cooler and try to claim the warranty, your not OC'in so using a stock cooler shouldn't run into any problems

 

[W2PM]

It's a Corsair H60 2013 edition (2nd generation), doesn't require a cable to the psu.

 

[PapaWood]

Yeah check warranty then go from there, get it replaced or purchase a new one, or keep the stock cooler on if you still have it available, I wouldn't use it for the sake of temps getting out of control until you have a solution.

Best luck to you.