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- Jan 5, 2004
- Location
- Indiana, US
Well im kinda stumped on this one, I have an Aquarius II and i will post a pic of the inside of my case soon. But the problem is im running idle 52C+(according to AbitEQ) and on load it quickly jumps up to 60-62C depending on what im doing. I dont know if its my radiator, pump, or if my waterblock isnt on there right.. but i have remounted the block sevral times with no change, so im pretty sure its not that. But when I get the pic on here, you can see from the pics that my whole cooling system is inside the case which i can understand would make the system run hotter than a water cooling with the radiator+pump located outside of the case, but still shouldnt be at those temps.. I have good airflow through my case, have sevral modded in fans, PCI exhaust fan 2 120mm Fans one at front one at rear, and two fans on the radiator. The case is enclosed by the desk its in which does accumulate heat.
Also those temps are at night when it isnt warm inside, it starts getting hotter during the day... the temps dont change alot maybe a few degrees from day to night even though the room temp has a rather large change. But running a heavy load during the day time brings the CPU temp over what i am willing to run.
One last thing i suppose, I am running one of the new D0 stepping Prescott's and i cant even remember the temps of the 3.2 i had in it before to use for reference but i know they werent this high.
Im not really sure what to do, possibly change the water and use a different mixture(currently using mix that came with AquariusII package), Changing the radiator(looking for something i can stuff in the case some how or another) and possibly the pump to get the water moving faster(again want to stuff it in the case) and last but not least trying to get my mess of wires cleaned up a little, even though there isnt much place to put them out of the way
Also those temps are at night when it isnt warm inside, it starts getting hotter during the day... the temps dont change alot maybe a few degrees from day to night even though the room temp has a rather large change. But running a heavy load during the day time brings the CPU temp over what i am willing to run.
One last thing i suppose, I am running one of the new D0 stepping Prescott's and i cant even remember the temps of the 3.2 i had in it before to use for reference but i know they werent this high.
Im not really sure what to do, possibly change the water and use a different mixture(currently using mix that came with AquariusII package), Changing the radiator(looking for something i can stuff in the case some how or another) and possibly the pump to get the water moving faster(again want to stuff it in the case) and last but not least trying to get my mess of wires cleaned up a little, even though there isnt much place to put them out of the way