Whats a good water cooling ( all in one ) for the Antec 1200 ? ( Trying to cool hot i74790k)

[sla70r]

My buddy has a antec 1200 , v3 case. His i74790k hits 100 C. We want to put a closed loop water cooler , but were wondering which one is the easiest and most effective. Thanks !

 

[amd4lif3]

h100i

 

[exroofer]

With push-pull high static pressure fans.

And my that is seriously hot! At what level of overclock are you seeing this and under what conditions?
Prime95 for 6 hours on a massive OC with very high ambient temps, or is this under normal gaming etc?

 

[sla70r]

This happens to him under 40 percent load with stock everything. We have even taken off the heatsink ( stock ) and re-applied thermal paste and whatnot but it still hits 100 when he starts gaming. Idles at mid to low 30`s... so still a bit odd. Mine, with same stock heatsink/fan, sits gets around 70-72 under 40-50 percent load.

 

[exroofer]

Hmmmm....... Do any of the Intel gurus know if false temp readings are the actual culprit here?
With my AMD cpu and certain temp monitoring software you get alarmingly high readings, which are not accurate.

And he has an almost $400 cpu but did not get a good aftermarket cooler for it at the same time?
Sorry but that seems just... silly..

I'm guessing you have already ramped up the fan speeds to max etc. and it did not help?

Copied from a Newegg review.

" Cons: Read some of the other reviews, this thing has a history of heating issues.

Once I started pushing some higher sustained work load (80% sustained over 20 minutes) it now rockets into 90+ Celsius. Research shows there is a common defect with the heat transfer to the top of the chip causing thermal throttling and shutdowns.

I am currently working with Intel to have mine replaced as some newer batches do not exhibit the same issues."


I see quite a few other reviews using good quality air coolers reporting temps in the 70 C range or lower, where they should be.

A Hyper 212 is like $30. Which might be a much cheaper solution for seeing whether it is cooling that is the problem, before spending well over $100 for a quality liquid loop. Is it HWmonitor reporting these temps? And is there a massive difference between the core and package temps when using HWmonitor?

Another Newegg review, same chip, with a high quality air cooler.


"
*** Antec Eleven Hundred V2 Black ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
*** Antec HCG M Series HCG-520M 520W Power Supply
*** ASUS Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac) LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
*** Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell Quad-Core 4.0GHz LGA 1150 Desktop Processor BX80646I74790K
*** ZALMAN CNPS9900ALED 120mm 2 Ball Low-noise Blue LED CPU Cooler
*** G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C11D-16GAB

No overclocking:
1. At idle, my system runs at 23 degrees C (fans are barely running, so it's real quiet)
2. Under Prime95 torture testing (In-place large FFTs), it runs at 39 degrees C.

Overclocked 15% (4.6GHz):
1. At idle, system runs at 27 degrees C
2. Under Prime95 torture testing (In-place large FFTs), it runs at 56 degrees C.
3. Under Prime95 extreme torture testing (small FFTs, FPU and L2 cache), it runs at 78 degrees C. "

Which seem more in line with what one would expect.

 

[sla70r]

We are gonna try and hook up a 212 air cooler and see if it helps , then go from there. THanks.