[SOLVED] Watercooling Temp Question

[ZeroGravity780]

Hello,

I recently built my first hardline build. I only did my cpu at the moment due to them not making a waterblock for my GPU. My loop consists of a ekwb d5 pump, separate res above, 240mm rad in the front, 120mm rad in the back and the ekwb velocity cpu block. My old build had 2 360mm rads so maybe I am use to lower temperatures but I would like to ask if this is normal anyway.

Prime95 v26 I am seeing temps on my 8700k at stock speeds reach 72C on small fft. Not sure if that seems normal or not.

I thought maybe the GPU could be making the temps worse due to the hot air being dumped directly into the rear 120mm rad. Also i ordered some static pressure fans and mine are not rated very high for static pressure. I only have 3 fans inside the case, two on the front rad and one on the rear.

Any thoughts?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

For the 8700k on Prime95 running at 72C at stock is not too bad. The 8700k is just a hot chip, plain and simple.

 

[ZeroGravity780]

For the 8700k on Prime95 running at 72C at stock is not too bad. The 8700k is just a hot chip, plain and simple.

Yeah, I have heard the TIM is garbage so I was aware of that. My old loop was running a 7700k which I thought was just as bad with the TIM. I just expected better with a custom loop.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The 7700k is pretty hot too, but the extra cores on the 8700k bring up the temps even more. Also, the 8700k has a pretty good boost at stock, so it is running pretty quick to start with.

You could delid the chip as that would drop the temps some. I have an 8700k in my gaming rig and it runs warm too, but I dont want to delid it as it is not a big deal to me.

 

[ZeroGravity780]

The 7700k is pretty hot too, but the extra cores on the 8700k bring up the temps even more. Also, the 8700k has a pretty good boost at stock, so it is running pretty quick to start with.

You could delid the chip as that would drop the temps some. I have an 8700k in my gaming rig and it runs warm too, but I dont want to delid it as it is not a big deal to me.

Good point. I did not take into account the two extra cores. Prime95 for some reason does not boost all the way it seems because it runs at 4Ghz during the test but 4.4Ghz at 1.1ish volts during normal usage and gaming. I am not a fan of delidding so that is not an option so I guess ill live with it.

Gaming temps are not bad unless i play ghost recon wildlands which is very CPU demanding, temps start to get to the high 50s low 60s in that game which is still good just not much better than my dark rock pro 4 I had.