Hi guys
Im having some doubts about my new system and the temps i get on it.
System:
Cooler master silencio 550 Midi Tower
Power Supply: Corsair HX850W ( Placed at buttom of tower taking air from below the tower. Dust filter between power supply and buttom of tower )
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme 6
CPU: Intel I7 3770K
RAM: Corsair vengeance 1866 MHZ ( 4x4 =16 GB )
Graphic: MSI GTX680 Twin Frozr OC 1058 MHZ
Harddisk: 2x 128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 and 1x 1 TB Seagate 7200 rpm 12.1
Optical Drive: Liteon Blueray drive
Case Cooling: 2x 120 mm fans in front ( 1 was already installed the other one taken from back exhaust in the tower. Both run silent at 750 rpm and are behind dust filter)
CPU Cooling: Antec H920 with both fans replaced to SilenX Ixtrema Pro 120 mm red led ( 1400 rpm 73cmf ). Air is exhausted at the back of the tower where the origal fan was replaced to have 2 fans at front instead for air intake.
CPU thermal compound: Arctic silver MX4
First setup with no OC and Corsair H80 water cooler standard fans and standard compound that was already attached to the cooler: idle 29 C ( No load temp measured ). The pump of this unit was so loud it was anbaerable. I just wanted to turn the system off. Noise came because of some voltage issue with the H80 and H100 series. Unplugging fans from the H80 and setting them on motherboard made noise go away. Still it had to be excanged and to something else because i read of all those people having this issue and some of them replaced the unit 3 and 4 times with new ones with the same issue.
Second setup with stock cooler ( It was weekend so i couldn't exchange the H80 ). Stock cooler and some cheap white compound i had laying arround. This got quite hot at 39 C Idle and arround 80 Load temps with prime95 after 15 min. Still no OC.
Third Setup Antec H920, standard compound attached to cooler and standard antec fans included with cooler. Idle 32 C full load with prime95 arround 70 C. Still hot and this pump also had some ratling noise. Read again that this was because of an air buble, that it was normal and i had to shake it for the noise to go away. Tryed to unattach it shake it alot and hurray, it was gone... for one day. Next day it was the same noise again. Noise was gone when i layed the tower on the side so Mobo and pump was vertical. Raising tower to stand on feet and MOBO and pump horisontally would recreate the noise instantly. Untached the pump again and moved it 45 degrees counter clock wise so the plugs where the tubes are atached wasn't at the buttom of the pump facing the graphic card but instead at the left side facing the memory blocks. This made the noise go away permanently ( 1 week so far ).
After that i had to use the old compound again i had laying arround and my temp got to 35 C idle and load at arround 75 C. Still no OC. Liquid temp in the water cooler were arround 41 C. I could turn up fan speeds to 2500 rpm max, and it would go down to arround 67 C for the Cores and 36 C liquid in load after a few min. But then the fans were REALLY loud, so this wasn't an option. The Pump itself btw is always doing max of 2800 rpm.
Fourth setup. Still antec H920 placed so that it didn't make noise. but with replacing the compound to arctic MX4 and the cooler fans from stock fans to Silenx Ixtrema Pro 120. CPU Idle at 27 C and load at 62 C, still using Prime95. In games it was arround 52 C ( Diablo 3 everything on max ). This was with 1400rpm on the new fans which is fine for them regarding noise.
Did an OC to 4 Mhz and now i have 34 C Idle and about 70 C Full load with prime.
I wrote this thread to both give some information regarding how much the water cooling, compound and fan changes reduced the temps in my setup, so other can compare and to give some inputs to the noise issues i had and what the cause/solution was for the water coolers.
Also i would like to know what you guys think of those temp. I read Ivy bridge get hot, but still i think my temp are way too high compared to the cooling setup i use.
Any comments is appreciated.
Thanks
Im having some doubts about my new system and the temps i get on it.
System:
Cooler master silencio 550 Midi Tower
Power Supply: Corsair HX850W ( Placed at buttom of tower taking air from below the tower. Dust filter between power supply and buttom of tower )
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme 6
CPU: Intel I7 3770K
RAM: Corsair vengeance 1866 MHZ ( 4x4 =16 GB )
Graphic: MSI GTX680 Twin Frozr OC 1058 MHZ
Harddisk: 2x 128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 and 1x 1 TB Seagate 7200 rpm 12.1
Optical Drive: Liteon Blueray drive
Case Cooling: 2x 120 mm fans in front ( 1 was already installed the other one taken from back exhaust in the tower. Both run silent at 750 rpm and are behind dust filter)
CPU Cooling: Antec H920 with both fans replaced to SilenX Ixtrema Pro 120 mm red led ( 1400 rpm 73cmf ). Air is exhausted at the back of the tower where the origal fan was replaced to have 2 fans at front instead for air intake.
CPU thermal compound: Arctic silver MX4
First setup with no OC and Corsair H80 water cooler standard fans and standard compound that was already attached to the cooler: idle 29 C ( No load temp measured ). The pump of this unit was so loud it was anbaerable. I just wanted to turn the system off. Noise came because of some voltage issue with the H80 and H100 series. Unplugging fans from the H80 and setting them on motherboard made noise go away. Still it had to be excanged and to something else because i read of all those people having this issue and some of them replaced the unit 3 and 4 times with new ones with the same issue.
Second setup with stock cooler ( It was weekend so i couldn't exchange the H80 ). Stock cooler and some cheap white compound i had laying arround. This got quite hot at 39 C Idle and arround 80 Load temps with prime95 after 15 min. Still no OC.
Third Setup Antec H920, standard compound attached to cooler and standard antec fans included with cooler. Idle 32 C full load with prime95 arround 70 C. Still hot and this pump also had some ratling noise. Read again that this was because of an air buble, that it was normal and i had to shake it for the noise to go away. Tryed to unattach it shake it alot and hurray, it was gone... for one day. Next day it was the same noise again. Noise was gone when i layed the tower on the side so Mobo and pump was vertical. Raising tower to stand on feet and MOBO and pump horisontally would recreate the noise instantly. Untached the pump again and moved it 45 degrees counter clock wise so the plugs where the tubes are atached wasn't at the buttom of the pump facing the graphic card but instead at the left side facing the memory blocks. This made the noise go away permanently ( 1 week so far ).
After that i had to use the old compound again i had laying arround and my temp got to 35 C idle and load at arround 75 C. Still no OC. Liquid temp in the water cooler were arround 41 C. I could turn up fan speeds to 2500 rpm max, and it would go down to arround 67 C for the Cores and 36 C liquid in load after a few min. But then the fans were REALLY loud, so this wasn't an option. The Pump itself btw is always doing max of 2800 rpm.
Fourth setup. Still antec H920 placed so that it didn't make noise. but with replacing the compound to arctic MX4 and the cooler fans from stock fans to Silenx Ixtrema Pro 120. CPU Idle at 27 C and load at 62 C, still using Prime95. In games it was arround 52 C ( Diablo 3 everything on max ). This was with 1400rpm on the new fans which is fine for them regarding noise.
Did an OC to 4 Mhz and now i have 34 C Idle and about 70 C Full load with prime.
I wrote this thread to both give some information regarding how much the water cooling, compound and fan changes reduced the temps in my setup, so other can compare and to give some inputs to the noise issues i had and what the cause/solution was for the water coolers.
Also i would like to know what you guys think of those temp. I read Ivy bridge get hot, but still i think my temp are way too high compared to the cooling setup i use.
Any comments is appreciated.
Thanks
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