- Dec 21, 2013
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Hi,
I recently bought a corsair h80i to help with my cpu cooling but so far I've been struggling to have good results. This is with stock speeds, nothing modified. I just reseated my cooler for the 3rd time and I still get high temps, i.e. getting 88, 84, 79 and 73 while running cinebench. At those temps I don't wanna even try prime95. The first time I installed it was my first time ever installing one so I was clumsy but temps were not bad. I was getting 80 degrees max with prime95 but I knew it could do much more. I reseated it using X shape method for applying thermal paste. I used Arctic Silver 5. I got even higher temps and suspected I've put too much paste, which I did. So i reseated it this time using the pea method. I didn't use too much like suggested everywhere and I think I did a good on that one. Now everytime I reseated I made sure to wash it with Arctic Silver 2 steps remover. I know it takes time to cure with the paste but those temps aren't going to come down by a lot even after curing. Am I doing something wrong or is the cooler faulty? Oh and room temps is at 19 degrees. All temps are in celsius.
My current config is:
4770k
Maximus VI Hero
NF-F12 fans for push-pull.
Thanks.
I recently bought a corsair h80i to help with my cpu cooling but so far I've been struggling to have good results. This is with stock speeds, nothing modified. I just reseated my cooler for the 3rd time and I still get high temps, i.e. getting 88, 84, 79 and 73 while running cinebench. At those temps I don't wanna even try prime95. The first time I installed it was my first time ever installing one so I was clumsy but temps were not bad. I was getting 80 degrees max with prime95 but I knew it could do much more. I reseated it using X shape method for applying thermal paste. I used Arctic Silver 5. I got even higher temps and suspected I've put too much paste, which I did. So i reseated it this time using the pea method. I didn't use too much like suggested everywhere and I think I did a good on that one. Now everytime I reseated I made sure to wash it with Arctic Silver 2 steps remover. I know it takes time to cure with the paste but those temps aren't going to come down by a lot even after curing. Am I doing something wrong or is the cooler faulty? Oh and room temps is at 19 degrees. All temps are in celsius.
My current config is:
4770k
Maximus VI Hero
NF-F12 fans for push-pull.
Thanks.
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