Question EK AIO 240mm Bad Performance

[AliMickey]

I have been on air cooling before buying this all in one, so it is my first experience with liquid cooling.

Reading the reviews and temp. performance and comparing them to my experience has left me with disappointment.

Here is a photo of my setup and a screenshot during idle, i hope i have done something wrong rather than it being a hardware issue.

Im seeing anywhere from 35-55 °C on idle and it does hit 85°C on aida64 stability test. In a couple games it averages out at 60-70.

CPU: i5 8600k (OC to 4.6).
But i have tested temps without an OC so turbo was 4.0 with maybe 5 degrees less.

Ambient temp: around 25 °C

I have re applied paste with no change, i tried a 90° rotation on the pump block as well.

https://imgur.com/a/2vr7453

View: https://imgur.com/a/2vr7453

 

[CountMike]

I have been on air cooling before buying this all in one, so it is my first experience with liquid cooling.

Reading the reviews and temp. performance and comparing them to my experience has left me with disappointment.

Here is a photo of my setup and a screenshot during idle, i hope i have done something wrong rather than it being a hardware issue.

Im seeing anywhere from 35-55 °C on idle and it does hit 85°C on aida64 stability test. In a couple games it averages out at 60-70.

CPU: i5 8600k (OC to 4.6).
But i have tested temps without an OC so turbo was 4.0 with maybe 5 degrees less.

Ambient temp: around 25 °C

I have re applied paste with no change, i tried a 90° rotation on the pump block as well.

https://imgur.com/a/2vr7453

View: https://imgur.com/a/2vr7453

Those temps are not bad or extreme, just about of what's expected of a cooler of that size. You might want to play with speed curves for pump and fans.

 

[AliMickey]

Those temps are not bad or extreme, just about of what's expected of a cooler of that size. You might want to play with speed curves for pump and fans.

i used this as a reference.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/images/media/2020/ek-aio/ek-aio-360-review_3950x-oc-35dba.png

the r9's is a more power hungry chip i believe and he got way lower temps.

It why im confused as to my relatively high temps.

i also ran the speeds at 100% with more or less same results.

 

[CountMike]

i used this as a reference.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/images/media/2020/ek-aio/ek-aio-360-review_3950x-oc-35dba.png

the r9's is a more power hungry chip i believe and he got way lower temps.

It why im confused as to my relatively high temps.

i also ran the speeds at 100% with more or less same results.

You have to ad 21c to temps in that chart (because of ambient temp) but it still looks unrealistic as t est was conducted with no boost enabled .

 

[AliMickey]

You have to ad 21c to temps in that chart (because of ambient temp) but it still looks unrealistic as t est was conducted with no boost enabled .

ah i didnt read the axis title before. Makes way more sense now.


ill get a temp sensor to accurately measure my room temp and then go from there.

cheers

 

[CountMike]

ah i didnt read the axis title before. Makes way more sense now.


ill get a temp sensor to accurately measure my room temp and then go from there.

cheers

Typical idle (1-2% usage) CPU temperature with good cooler is usually about 10c above ambient so you have to count on that too. At high usage difference is a bit smaller.

 

[rubix_1011]

Most cooling reviews report temps as values over ambient, since it is difficult to maintain an exact ambient room temp 100% of the time, year round.

Taking the ambient as an offset is the easiest way to provide the info in a standard way.

 

[AliMickey]

So as an update, my pump is making these sorts of sounds. It happens sometimes when i boot it up in the morning having touched or moved nothing, the radiator is the top point in the loop so dont think it is air. It goes away after maybe 5 minutes.

Can this be an issue, should i RMA.

https://imgur.com/a/An6gF77

View: https://imgur.com/a/An6gF77