New Water Cooling System - Heat Issues

[Motopsychojdn]

I suspect the block wasn't screwed down tightly enough but the main issue I seee is the use of toothpaste as Tp 😛
Grab some decent paste man, you've spent how much on W/c gear and are skimping on the stuff that is a vital link for your heat transference?
C'mon, man up and give your chips some good paste
**Edit, whats that wire coming off the fan socket on the card? Is it an LED?
Please tell me you don't have an LED mounted between the card and block?
I'd hope not but have to ask, it would explain the bad seating of the block on that chip
**More editing, is your Ps normally by the radiator that heats the room or was that just for the picture?
you don't want the Pc rads sucking in room radiator heat to try cooling your rig 😛
Moto

 

[UrbanAvalon]

Been playing PlanetSide 2 for a few hours now, the highest any of my GPUs got was 55 C.

@ Lutfij & rubix not criss-crossing the screws as I tightened it might of been the original cause, in addition to me not applying enough thermal paste. This time I put a *small* bit more than I did the first time, and it looks like the seal is good.

@ moto That TP came with my water blocks when I ordered them, but I wiped off both of em and used some excess XSPC TP I had, which seems to be working well. As for that radiator, no worries it is completely off, I live in dorms and space is limited, so it was the only place I could fit this brick.
Also for that fan socket, can't tell you whats going on with the wires up there, the water blocks are EVGA Hydro Copper. The logo lights up. You can see in one of the above pictures. 😛

Thanks everyone for all your help!

 

[Lutfij]

Glad to know you got it sorted out

 

[noob2222]

glad you got it worked out, told you guys the extra radiator wouldn't fix the idle heating, but should be good for some overclocking now.

nice looking rig, the red lines with the white case really stand out.