I used to cool my 3700x with the Hyper 212 BE RGB, it was performing fine for a $30 cooler, giving temps of 36-45c idle, 55-63c gaming, 70-75c heavy tasks, all in an ambient temp of 25-35c. However, during summertime it started to become noisy and performs a bit worse which was expected,
So I decided to upgrade to the Kraken x63 hoping for better temps and noise management, I mounted the rad to top exhaust, but I was surprised that there was no improvement over the Hyper 212, and it was acting worse sometimes, 20% cpu usage will make it reach 60c.
The mounting screws are tighten and the thermal paste is fine.
Fans are one of the worst I have ever used, they vibrate at 60%, and the bearing is noticeable at low rpms unlike my Arctic P14 fans.
Another issue I faced was the inability to set a custom curve for the pump from the bios, even though it was connected to the pump header, I can see the rpm, edit the curve, but the rpm doesn't change at all, I tried pwm and dc, no luck, in fact, it reports the last rpm value set by nzxt cam.
Speaking of cam, holly $#!t that software is a disaster! In just 2 days, I had to reinstall it 4 times because it randomly stops working and then refuses to start, I was forced to use it in order to set the pump curve and rgb, and no I don't have any interference with other softwares. The other issue with cam, it was preventing the system from idling as it was consistently waking up the cpu, and if I close it, I will lose my pump curve.
For my airflow setup, I have the MC600P case cooled by 4xArctic P14 (3 front intake and 1 rear exhaust), and ofc the kraken mounted at the top pull exhaust.
Setup:
MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus
R7 3700x
4x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 3200MHz CL16
Palit RTX 3070 JetStream OC
Corsair RM650i
MC600P
Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of this AIO?
How can I set a custom pump curve in the bios?
So I decided to upgrade to the Kraken x63 hoping for better temps and noise management, I mounted the rad to top exhaust, but I was surprised that there was no improvement over the Hyper 212, and it was acting worse sometimes, 20% cpu usage will make it reach 60c.
The mounting screws are tighten and the thermal paste is fine.
Fans are one of the worst I have ever used, they vibrate at 60%, and the bearing is noticeable at low rpms unlike my Arctic P14 fans.
Another issue I faced was the inability to set a custom curve for the pump from the bios, even though it was connected to the pump header, I can see the rpm, edit the curve, but the rpm doesn't change at all, I tried pwm and dc, no luck, in fact, it reports the last rpm value set by nzxt cam.
Speaking of cam, holly $#!t that software is a disaster! In just 2 days, I had to reinstall it 4 times because it randomly stops working and then refuses to start, I was forced to use it in order to set the pump curve and rgb, and no I don't have any interference with other softwares. The other issue with cam, it was preventing the system from idling as it was consistently waking up the cpu, and if I close it, I will lose my pump curve.
For my airflow setup, I have the MC600P case cooled by 4xArctic P14 (3 front intake and 1 rear exhaust), and ofc the kraken mounted at the top pull exhaust.
Setup:
MSI MPG x570 Gaming Plus
R7 3700x
4x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 3200MHz CL16
Palit RTX 3070 JetStream OC
Corsair RM650i
MC600P
Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of this AIO?
How can I set a custom pump curve in the bios?