So I have a H100i on my 8350 and its mounted in the top of my case pushing air out the top and I seem to be having stupidly high temperatures on my CPU just at stock speeds and voltages.
I am using it on a m5a99fx motherboard and the VRM's get very hot on it so I set the fans up so the radiator was an exhaust bringing air away from the VRM's to keep them cool and I know this may effect the temperatures a little bit but I am still surprised at what I am getting.
So right now with a couple of tabs open on Chrome its reading at about 30C with the motherboard at about 45C. Now the motherboard is still a bit warm at idle for my liking but it will do, the worrying part is when it all gets under load. When I run Prime95 the CPU will get to 80C in around 30 seconds with the fans ramped up to max while the motherboard is getting to 75C at least, there is clearly something wrong but I'm not sure what.
Today I took off the water block, cleaned the cpu and the block itself and then reapplied some new thermal paste with the pea method to try and fix it but it hasn't made any difference. I'm fairly sure I've done it just how you're supposed to and I can't see any other reason why the temperatures are getting so hot. Iv felt the tubes and there is definitely a difference between one and the other so I know some kind of cooling is going on but how much I am not sure of. I need help with this because although it isn't at dangerous levels while gaming the fans have to get a lot louder then I would like and overclocking is definitely not an option for me right now.
Its been a day since I posted this and no answers but I have noticed something else, It is now idling at 45C and I haven't tried Prime again because even when it got to 80C it didn't look like it was slowing now. What I did notice was that even when it was at 80C the air coming from the radiator wasn't even warm compared to what it should be if it's running at those temperatures. There is a little bit just where the tubes entre the radiator part that gets very warm but the rest doesn't warm up at all. What I think has happened is the liquid isn't going through the radiator at all and while idling there is just about enough surface area of radiator being used to cool it down to 45C but as soon as its under load the little part of the radiator that is being used is no where near enough to cool the CPU. What I don't understand still though is when its under load the tube carrying the coolant back to the CPU feels cool so there must be some kind of cooling going on but that could just be compared to the other tube which was very warm so put off my comparison. If this makes sense to anyone else I would appreciate a reply because if it sounds okay I will contact Corsair about it.
I am using it on a m5a99fx motherboard and the VRM's get very hot on it so I set the fans up so the radiator was an exhaust bringing air away from the VRM's to keep them cool and I know this may effect the temperatures a little bit but I am still surprised at what I am getting.
So right now with a couple of tabs open on Chrome its reading at about 30C with the motherboard at about 45C. Now the motherboard is still a bit warm at idle for my liking but it will do, the worrying part is when it all gets under load. When I run Prime95 the CPU will get to 80C in around 30 seconds with the fans ramped up to max while the motherboard is getting to 75C at least, there is clearly something wrong but I'm not sure what.
Today I took off the water block, cleaned the cpu and the block itself and then reapplied some new thermal paste with the pea method to try and fix it but it hasn't made any difference. I'm fairly sure I've done it just how you're supposed to and I can't see any other reason why the temperatures are getting so hot. Iv felt the tubes and there is definitely a difference between one and the other so I know some kind of cooling is going on but how much I am not sure of. I need help with this because although it isn't at dangerous levels while gaming the fans have to get a lot louder then I would like and overclocking is definitely not an option for me right now.
Its been a day since I posted this and no answers but I have noticed something else, It is now idling at 45C and I haven't tried Prime again because even when it got to 80C it didn't look like it was slowing now. What I did notice was that even when it was at 80C the air coming from the radiator wasn't even warm compared to what it should be if it's running at those temperatures. There is a little bit just where the tubes entre the radiator part that gets very warm but the rest doesn't warm up at all. What I think has happened is the liquid isn't going through the radiator at all and while idling there is just about enough surface area of radiator being used to cool it down to 45C but as soon as its under load the little part of the radiator that is being used is no where near enough to cool the CPU. What I don't understand still though is when its under load the tube carrying the coolant back to the CPU feels cool so there must be some kind of cooling going on but that could just be compared to the other tube which was very warm so put off my comparison. If this makes sense to anyone else I would appreciate a reply because if it sounds okay I will contact Corsair about it.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram