Water cooling temps are the same as air cooled temps?

[jbmbk12]

Hey guys i just reinstalled my water cooling loop.
My XSPC X20 750 res/pump combo died about a year ago
and I decided to get back in the water cooling game with the
XSPC Photon 170 and a separate D5 Swiftech MCP655 pump which I
purchased from performance-pcs.com


So I installed my loop and notice
that i'm getting around the 39-42C for the
CPU temp on idle which was around the same temps I was getting on air cooling

Did I do something wrong?
Do I need a better CPU block or bigger radiator?
My main goal is to over clock this CPU

Any suggestions to improve temps please let me know.
BTW my room temp is around 80F or 26.6C



Case: Corsair 600T
CPU Intel i7-2600K
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080
RAM: Corsair Venegeance (4x4GB) 16GB
PSU: Cooler Master V1000 80 Gold

Water cooling parts:
XSPC Raystorm 750 EX240 Extreme Kit
CPU Block: XSPC Raystorm CPU block
Radiator: XSPC EX240 240mm radiator
Pump: Swiftech MCP655-B D5 pump with speed control.
Reservoir: XSPC Photon 170 tube reservoir

 

[azzazel_99]

Me? I'm using mostly EK stuff. Primo Chill system prep and loop treatment that came with their tubing kit.

 

[jbmbk12]

nice. I always wanted to try out ek water cooling parts. But i already had XSPC parts that were not being used. What water pump you have and res?

 

[azzazel_99]

i have the d5 vario pump and the xres100 or something like that. Its the little guy with the pump top attached to it.

 

[jbmbk12]

ok cool if you have pictures of your water cooling setup I would like to see. Is the D5 vario pump the XSPC version for the D5? does that one have the PWM cable or just the red knob on the back? Btw I went back to air cooling. My CPU has never been cooler 33C on idle from speed fan. 40C on core temp for idle and 60C on load with prime95. I might not need water cooling to overclock my cpu.

 

[azzazel_99]

The vario pump is the manual controlled pump not the pwm. You can also always lower your voltage too. My stock voltage control had my cpu underload at like 1.4volts which is insane especially for stock clocks. It's now sitting at 1.2v maybe even a little lower and under full load while folding with Evga it never goes passed 55c and thats with both my gpu's blowing heat into the case and the cpu as well. It gets nice and toasty in the case but that 6700k does a fantastic job. I idle at 20c on most cores. Coolest core at idle is 18-19c warmest is 23c average is 20-21c oh and this is currently running on a hyper 212 evo in push pull with sp120 corsair fans.

 

[jbmbk12]

Damn bro. 18C?! Where you live at... Alaska? Those some excellent temps! I have the CM hyper 212 evo as well and I dont get temps like that. But I'm impressed. I could definitely use some tips.. I have Bit Fenix pro fans in my case but I still an novice when it comes to fans specs and configurations. Also all that voltage stuff you said went over my head. I guess it laymans terms the lower the voltage being used the more energy saved.

 

[azzazel_99]

The lower the voltage the less heat. which in turn does equal less energy.

 

[azzazel_99]

lol well generally i keep my tower pretty damn close to my window a/c unit lol so it gets some nice cold temps.

 

[azzazel_99]

This was after playing division for the last hour or 2.

 

[jbmbk12]

crazy temps! thats my overall goal.

 

[azzazel_99]

on my 2500k temps were the same but it was overclocked to 4.4ghz at i believe 1.2 something volts. 1.25 i believe. I run artic silver thermal paste and them 2 fans lol. I can't imagine what i will be able to do with this 6700k once i finally decide what block i want to go with for my cpu

 

[jbmbk12]

did you hear anything good on the XSPC raystorm pro? i was thinking about getting that block if for some reasons my old xspc block started acting up.

 

[azzazel_99]

I have not. Really only been looking at ek stuff. Their Supremacy evo and MX blocks are supposed to be really good

 

[jbmbk12]

yea i seen some of those very popular blocks. In about 3months imma go water cool crazy. I gotta get a bigger radiator. At least a 360mm and a 120mm. Getting those 1080 water blocks with backplates as well. Might try PETG tubing too.

 

[azzazel_99]

I think im going to end up with the 360 rad which for now will be the cpu rad until i upgrade my gpu's then i will add a 240 or 280 to the loop and have the 2 rads for the cpu and 2 gpu's

 

[jbmbk12]

you have 2 PC setups? I see a pick of a xspc reservoir and then another with the CM212 evo on your photo bucket pics

 

[azzazel_99]

The water cooled pc in the photobucket is not mine. It was just an idea of how i kinda wanted mine but unfortunately my gpu's wont let me set my loop up the same way. Right now my pc is cooled by the cooler master 212 evo in push pull config with 2 fans. I have yet to purchase my cpu block yet or my fittings. I put that on hold and ordered some more uv purple colored static pressure fans from corsair so my radiator had some new fans to go on it when i put it in. My 2nd rig which is really the wifes pc has a 5820k and gigabyte x99 motherboard in it with 16gb of evga sc ddr4 ram and a gtx 970. My 3rd system is a 2500k also using a hyper 212 evo with a gtx 560ti classified and 8gb of ddr3 1600mhz. Just sold my 4th system to a buddy that housed a 6300fx amd cpu also sporting a 212 evo and 8gb of 1333mhz ddr3 ram and a 740sc gpu

 

[jbmbk12]

ok thanks now it makes sense.

 

[jbmbk12]

I think imma give that primochill sys prep a try. Just to make sure I took every step possible to make sure my WC is clean of debris and gunk. I still can't decide tho if I should just exchange the XSPC photon resevoir and swiftech pump for the XSPC photon pump/res combo. Or should I get the swiftech pump with the speed control and the G1/4" fittings

 

[azzazel_99]

Just gotta figure out if you have the space for the pump res combo

 

[jbmbk12]

i'm pretty sure i do. The only reason I decided to get the res and pump separately was if the pump failed. I could just replace the pump instead of replacing both res and pump. Which in turn will save me money. But that didn't go as planned. 2 failed pumps didn't even last a day. Total 3 pumps broke on me.

 

[azzazel_99]

you can still do that with a pump res combo. The pump pulls apart from the res so you can replace the pump if it goes bad.

 

[jbmbk12]

really. I didn't know that!. Is there a way I can mount a separate swiftech pump on the XSPC photon res? The reason I ask is that I don't know if performance-pcs.com will let me return the xspc res because it is not defective.

 

[azzazel_99]

you just need the right pump top i think.

 

[jbmbk12]

which one?