[SOLVED] OC Temp is average 70c under load with custom water cooled loop

[urban6894]

Hi,

I just built a new system with a custom water cooled loop and the CPU temps under load seem to be somewhat high. I built a custom water loop and I just wanted some opinions as to whether this is too high or not.

Its average like 70c while gaming

Specs: i9-9900k overclocked to 4.8ghz
z390 aorus master
gtx 2080 ti
gskill tridentz
970 evo m.2 500gb nvme drive
2tb WD hdd
CPU block is ek- velocity
I have a 420mm radiator thats 45mm thicGPU
EK-Vector gfx card block
ek-xres pump/res combo

Hope this helps

 

[drivinfast247]

That seems awful high for only being under a gaming load.

 

[urban6894]

I turned down my room temp and and brought my oc from 4.8ghz to 4.7 and it is averaging around like 65-67 but that still seems high for a custom loop.

 

[rubix_1011]

Not necessarily, much of this depends on your vcore on your overclock. Higher vcore means more voltage per clock tick, which adds additional thermal load.

One way to determine a baseline would be to reset your clock speeds to stock, test load temps and then compare with overclocked. Testing at stock speeds is a good way to understand if your thermal headroom is a limit/problem with cooling and how hot hardware runs at factory speeds.