FX-8150 Overheating with watercooling

[giannishorianopoulos]

I recently got my hands on a FX-8150 and from day 1 I started had problems with the CPU overheating. After changing some normal coolers I finally bought a H-60 watercooler....However it still has problems running certain games with temp reaching 68-78C......Moreover during summer r it reaches temperatures of 63C without doing anything , just having it open...Please help...Am I doing something wrong???

 

[kerberos_20]

side air hmm...that one should be use only when u have too many add in cards (pcie), otherwise if u have just gpu, u shouldnt use it, it will just mess up your airflow

as for your front intake...a single fan covered with radiator...not really much of an airflow
put it on back of your case (exhaust)
in front put some intake fans
https://cdn.windowsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ATX-cooling-case.jpg
http://pccasesreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Thermaltake-Core-V71-full-tower-case-is-the-ultimate-powerhouse-suitable-for-any-type-of-PC-enthusiast-%E2%80%93-no-matter-liquid-cooling-or-extreme-airflow.jpg
here example of how airflow is usualy done

BUT u have aio, u will also need to change fan at top to intake (not exhaust) to cool your VRM as those gets usualy cooled by CPU fan which u technically do not have

i have myself at front big radiator, but there are 4x 14cm fans so there actually is airflow from it


edit:
forgot to mention about cable management
http://img.techpowerup.org/120910/computer%20004765.jpg
this is how it should NOT look like

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

side air hmm...that one should be use only when u have too many add in cards (pcie), otherwise if u have just gpu, u shouldnt use it, it will just mess up your airflow

as for your front intake...a single fan covered with radiator...not really much of an airflow
put it on back of your case (exhaust)
in front put some intake fans
https://cdn.windowsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ATX-cooling-case.jpg
http://pccasesreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Thermaltake-Core-V71-full-tower-case-is-the-ultimate-powerhouse-suitable-for-any-type-of-PC-enthusiast-%E2%80%93-no-matter-liquid-cooling-or-extreme-airflow.jpg
here example of how airflow is usualy done

BUT u have aio, u will also need to change fan at top to intake (not exhaust) to cool your VRM as those gets usualy cooled by CPU fan which u technically do not have

i have myself at front big radiator, but there are 4x 14cm fans so there actually is airflow from it

Υεa.....the problem with my tower is that it has only 1 front intake where the fan is fixed there ..one behind where the watercooler is and one on the side.....I have no top fans....(it's quite an old tower I have and I am planning buying a new one)

 

[kerberos_20]

case with enough mounting space for fans u can get cheap these days, there are plenty and many with RGB! xD
even second hand will do

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

case with enough mounting space for fans u can get cheap these days, there are plenty and many with RGB! xD
even second hand will do

Yes I know that....I just also gather money for GPU so I have to share the budget...also about cable managment......my current twoer sucks at this so I just wait to get a new one that has the ability to hide the cables

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

OK i tested again the pc and its seems not to pash 60C under pressure (with my old program) and AMDs shows the cores around 25-35C after I opened it and placed again the watercooling( also I changed the side fan to throw air in instead of throwing it out like before) ...It seems to be fixed but I will test it some more to be sure

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

Yea nothing fixed....as soon as the prosessor needs to reach 100 in all cores in a few minutes it reaches 67 C and we start having problems

 

[Gam3r01]

Then its safe to assume your case airflow and cooler are not sufficient for your processor.

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

Then its safe to assume your case airflow and cooler are not sufficient for your processor.

Well I think that the watercooling is good enought ......however the airflow us completely awful if not existant at all....but how much would this affect the temps....I mean a good tower would make that much diference???

 

[kerberos_20]

well tbh, light up your case and use some non toxic smoke to see how your current airflow looks like
old tower have barely any airflow even if fans spinning 5000rpm...as either holes for air are too small, are there are too many obstacles (hdd cages, cables). from intake to exhaust there should be direct path. check youtube for some pc case airflow tests so u can get some ideas.
tho u can still cut few holes here and there, its free

 

[Gam3r01]

Airflow is extremely important. No cool air means a hot PC regardless of your cooler.
Also, the H60 is a fairly bad cooler. It is arguably easily outperformed by basic air coolers like the 212 EVO and H7. It simply has too small of a radiator, and far too high of a price tag for its performance.

 

[giannishorianopoulos]

Airflow is extremely important. No cool air means a hot PC regardless of your cooler.
Also, the H60 is a fairly bad cooler. It is arguably easily outperformed by basic air coolers like the 212 EVO and H7. It simply has too small of a radiator, and far too high of a price tag for its performance.

Ok...well I almost bought a 212 EVO but last moment I found the H-60 second handed and I bought it .......Also yea the case has barely any airflow it's really old .....I will test it but I already know it's awful......But is a new case with good airflow going to help that much...???I mean is its possible that it wil stop it from overheaating?

 

[kerberos_20]

it will help reduce heat
i have aio on cpu AC freezer 240, with 4x 140cm fans, they work as intake
on top there are 2x 140cm fans (running low speed just for vrm) as intake
on exhaust there is 1x 140cm

as for temperatures
atm i have in my room 29degree
behind front fans (before gpu/cpu/ram) is 24 degrees ambient
cpu is atm 40 degrees (not in idle) at max 180watts (6x4.1ghz ryzen5 1600x) max temp 55 degrees
gpu (1060 3gb) is at 52 degrees atm (20% usage) at max it moves around 62-65 degrees
vrm in idle at 55degrees, with stress test they top out at 85 degrees (12 phase with junk flat original heatsink)
ram stays around 50 degrees
m.2 ssd under gpu (970 evo) 49-59 degrees, no heatsink
at exhaust im getting max 30 degrees