- Oct 19, 2013
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Hi guys,
First post in here but I've been reading and using for reviews and recommendations for ages. I've just recently upgraded my rig and decided to go the whole 9 yards and water cool the cpu.
I'm running a 3770k on a Maximus V Formula. The Watercooling kit is the XSPC Raystom 750 AX240 kit.
I booted up for the first time, went to bios and started looking around the graphical bios, after a couple of minutes i came to the temp monitoring area and saw the cpu recording a temp of 60 degrees and slowly climbing. it reached 70 (the writing goes red as a warning) so i turned it off.
Stumped and being half past midnight at this point i turned it off and went to bed. This evening I decided to pull the waterblock off and reseat it and putting on a little more thermal paste (my first layer was really really thin and i wasn't sure if it was too thin.)
Fired it up and went into bios and watched the temp do exactly the same thing. It just steadily increases while it's sat there doing nothing.
I've never really looked at temp monitoring before but i do know that 70 is stupidly high especially as it's not doing anything.
Being my first go of watercooling I'm obviously concerned and am out of my depth in terms of knowledge and troubleshooting. I've done the obvious checking fans are running on the rad, making sure the pump is working (it's bloody quiet
)
the same kit was tested on hardware heaven with a 4770k on stock and it's idle is 27 degrees...
Can anyone provide some advice?
Many thanks,
Phill
First post in here but I've been reading and using for reviews and recommendations for ages. I've just recently upgraded my rig and decided to go the whole 9 yards and water cool the cpu.
I'm running a 3770k on a Maximus V Formula. The Watercooling kit is the XSPC Raystom 750 AX240 kit.
I booted up for the first time, went to bios and started looking around the graphical bios, after a couple of minutes i came to the temp monitoring area and saw the cpu recording a temp of 60 degrees and slowly climbing. it reached 70 (the writing goes red as a warning) so i turned it off.
Stumped and being half past midnight at this point i turned it off and went to bed. This evening I decided to pull the waterblock off and reseat it and putting on a little more thermal paste (my first layer was really really thin and i wasn't sure if it was too thin.)
Fired it up and went into bios and watched the temp do exactly the same thing. It just steadily increases while it's sat there doing nothing.
I've never really looked at temp monitoring before but i do know that 70 is stupidly high especially as it's not doing anything.
Being my first go of watercooling I'm obviously concerned and am out of my depth in terms of knowledge and troubleshooting. I've done the obvious checking fans are running on the rad, making sure the pump is working (it's bloody quiet
)the same kit was tested on hardware heaven with a 4770k on stock and it's idle is 27 degrees...
Can anyone provide some advice?
Many thanks,
Phill
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