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ok i got this a few days ago and put it in my 3770k @ 3.5 ghz i was getting temps at around 35-45c idle. i was puzzled so i got arctic silver 5 and put som on after i cleaned with 70% alcohol. and i still got like 21-30c idle but if i open anything it goes to 40-45. stock intel cooler ran better. so i made sure the fans were going the right way and everything. i dont think its an error on my part but i may be wrong i am new. the temp of the room is about 70-75f. any ideas?
 
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Yes it does. You just pushed the multi or did you mess with the base clock(this effects memory and the pci-e speed, so watch it) as well. It is best to start with just the multi.

Now you memory is rated for 1866 right?
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the fan is directly on top of the cpu with the stock were as the heat is transferred to the radiator, if you were to leave the stock on and the radiator for a few hours the liquid colled one would most likely be better as all of the heat would have transferred to the radiator and been blown directly out of the case rather than it staying in the air inside the case
 
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will i get any better temps or is this how its ment to be? the box advertised a 3770k at 4.6 ghz 100% load running at 47c im hotter then that at 3.5 just playing wow
 
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I really doubt that you were getting better cooling with the stock one, especially knowing how terrible the stock coolers are. Maybe there were bad readings from the sensors but for sure it wasn`t better that this one, that aside the H80i is a closed loop cooler is not really the best one on the market, it`s strongest point over the stock ones is that you can have decent temperatures while overclocking with minimal sound noises. A normal cooler will have to rev up trying to keep your CPU cool thus making lots of noise and maybe failing to cool an OC CPU anyway.

For example mine never goes above 55°C while rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro for more than 30 mins (all cores to 100%) and this with fixed 600 rpm on my fans, stock one would rev up like a jet and had temps around 65°C.

If you really want lower temps, though 45°C is quite ok for normal use, i get that while playing BF4, you`ll have to go for H100i or other more expensive cooling solutions, but it would be pointless.
 
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I'd go with 4.6ghz on a h80 being advertising lies, or reliant on your case also being a deafening wind tunnel. Check your bios fan settings to see if they're set for being quiet rather than being cool.
 
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tbh sounds like the cleaning wasn't good enough. maybe a little bit of the 70% was left behind or you didn't apply the thermal paste right. idle temps with watercooling should be around room temps maybe 1 to 4 degree more.
 
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Well as jldevoy pointed out, though you don`t need to enter the bios for this, are your fans from the cooler running at fixed rpm ? or quiet mode ?

You can set them in the Corsair Link software, and keep in mind you have to disable fan control speed for the CPU from BIOS, or your pump will run at strange speeds.

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I have mine on a custom curve. Sometimes the software is a bit buggy and you have to change settings few times for them to take effect, see if your fans rev up when the temp starts to rise.
 
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i had them on proformance and my case fans on high. but i thing i figured it out. i was looking and clicked on a h100i support thing and someone pointed out the back plate and if it was upside down. and it was. idk if this will have an impact but im going to try nd fix it and see if that was it. i will update after
 
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Unless you are using the motherboard sensors, I doubt gaming was giving you temperatures of 36c. now the 20 - 45 thing seems rather normal because the cpu doing nothing clocks down and drops voltage, the sudden load causes it to clock up and increase voltage. These liquid coolers hit top temperature faster than a large heatsink(it takes a while for a heatsink to reach its max temp).

Now the motherboard sensors keep an eye on a socket temperature. The H80i does NOT push down air in the socket/vrm area. Most of these liquid coolers do not cool that area well at all, try to point a fan at that area and see if it drops or not.

The coretemps should be better than stock. Even cheap air coolers are a huge upgrade from the stock cooler.

That 47 degree advertisement HAS to be socket temperatures since 3770ks tend to run hotter because of the thermal paste between the die and ihs vs being welded/soldered on older units.

Check these load temps.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-3570-low-power,3204-13.html
 
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Idle temperatures should not change too much because the cpu's power savings will drop the clocks and voltage at idle anyway. It is load temperatures that go up.

Please remember that more voltage(extra you may add to get high clocks) = more heat. Do not overdo it.
 
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