Setup: i7 Haswell 4770 cooled with a corsair H-60 liquid cooler push/pull configuration on ASUS Maximus IV Hero MB, 8g RAM (gskill sniper series), cosair 650 psu, 8 corsair static pressure fans (4 in/4 out), samsung 120g ssd, WD 1 TB hdd black, MSI Nvidia 760 gpu, Cosair full tower case.
Idle temps rune between 27c and 35c. Good right? When I run prime95, 100c in less than 2 minutes! I don't understand??? I have tried three different thermal compounds. Ceramic, Liquid Ultra, and now Arctic Silver 5. This is the hottest it's ran yet. All three of them have reached 95c or higher. I use a rice-grain size dab of paste and spread thin with a powder-free rubber glove and until the entire chip has a thin layer (almost see-through). I prep the chip and cooling unit with Arctic silver's cleaning and prep liquids each time before applying any thermal compound.
I plug my liquid cooler's pump into the MB's CPU fan connection and it runs at 4450RPM. The push/pull fans run about 550RPM's.
I've tried everything and am losing hope. Suggestions?
Idle temps rune between 27c and 35c. Good right? When I run prime95, 100c in less than 2 minutes! I don't understand??? I have tried three different thermal compounds. Ceramic, Liquid Ultra, and now Arctic Silver 5. This is the hottest it's ran yet. All three of them have reached 95c or higher. I use a rice-grain size dab of paste and spread thin with a powder-free rubber glove and until the entire chip has a thin layer (almost see-through). I prep the chip and cooling unit with Arctic silver's cleaning and prep liquids each time before applying any thermal compound.
I plug my liquid cooler's pump into the MB's CPU fan connection and it runs at 4450RPM. The push/pull fans run about 550RPM's.
I've tried everything and am losing hope. Suggestions?