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Today decided to swap the Cpu waterblocks out. I was having atrocious gaming temps and I got tired of it. Took about 3 hours total time from start to finish. And for that surprise inside the "package" (Top Rad), after draining my loop, I removed the tubing from the top rad into the cpu block inlet, and to my horror I found a small cut zip-tie quite stuck. I'm like "how the eff did this thing get in there?!" It sure as hell wasn't me. So maybe this was part of my temp problem? 
Anyways I flushed the loop, fresh distilled water, the "bleed the system dance" and fired it up. It bled quite fast, but I still have that annoying tiny bubble in the corner of the block
. I'm wondering if this is the infamous bubble trapped in that dam corner.
Ok so after about an hour of gameplay, my Cpu temps did not exceed 62c. That's a staggering 18c drop from the Bykski block. Now again I can't be 100% certain the ziptie stuck in the outlet of the top rad could have played a big part in my high temps. When I first plopped the Bykski I had decent temps (68-72c max), but then over time temps kept creepin' till it hit 80c several times and I couldn't figure it out.
So the paste I used was Thermalright TF7. I was using MX4, then I tried MX6. I find that MX6 is quite runny and results were pretty crappy. I went back to MX4. I did the 4dots in corners and 1 dot in the center method.
We'll see how it does, but for now I'm happy
Anyways I flushed the loop, fresh distilled water, the "bleed the system dance" and fired it up. It bled quite fast, but I still have that annoying tiny bubble in the corner of the block
. I'm wondering if this is the infamous bubble trapped in that dam corner. Ok so after about an hour of gameplay, my Cpu temps did not exceed 62c. That's a staggering 18c drop from the Bykski block. Now again I can't be 100% certain the ziptie stuck in the outlet of the top rad could have played a big part in my high temps. When I first plopped the Bykski I had decent temps (68-72c max), but then over time temps kept creepin' till it hit 80c several times and I couldn't figure it out.
So the paste I used was Thermalright TF7. I was using MX4, then I tried MX6. I find that MX6 is quite runny and results were pretty crappy. I went back to MX4. I did the 4dots in corners and 1 dot in the center method.
We'll see how it does, but for now I'm happy
Don't get me wrong, the Bykski block is good, and it did give me decent enough temps, but then temps started spiking up real quick, and after reseating it several times, temps remained pretty much the same.
