I bought a seidon 120v water cooler and I've installed everything correctly the pump works fine and the fan is running at full speed, but my temp still sits at 70-71 in bios at idle. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Core temp is about the most accurate software you can get for AMD CPUs unfortunately. For Intel, any software is really accurate. AMD Temp sensors seem to be a little less reliable than Intel's. But yes, that's still too hot for a 1090t. Repaste and remount. Not mounted correctly.
clearly not mounted probably. clean paste and apply new thermal paste. If you don't have any, MX-4 works great under high mounting pressure heatsinks (pretty much all watercoolers)
I don't believe that to be the problem cuz i just restarted after just browsing the web and checked the temp and it was at 50-51c and within a minute it climbed up to 58c. then i restarted and am on it currently any idea what could cauuse the temp to rise and drop like that?
If u can hear the pump running and know its speed and the fan and hear liquid flowing it must be a bad mount or lack of thermal paste. Or a faulty unit and will most likely need to be rma'd
I don't believe that to be the problem cuz i just restarted after just browsing the web and checked the temp and it was at 50-51c and within a minute it climbed up to 58c. then i restarted and am on it currently any idea what could cauuse the temp to rise and drop like that?
download and run prime 95 large FFTs and monitor your temps with coretemp. tell us what you hit.
Core temp is about the most accurate software you can get for AMD CPUs unfortunately. For Intel, any software is really accurate. AMD Temp sensors seem to be a little less reliable than Intel's. But yes, that's still too hot for a 1090t. Repaste and remount. Not mounted correctly.
Thanks guys for the help, i remounted the water block. somehow it must of slid and smeared the paste. booted back up into windows and core temp was sitting around 20c and after a half hour stress test i hit a absolute max of 42c.
Thanks guys for the help, i remounted the water block. somehow it must of slid and smeared the paste. booted back up into windows and core temp was sitting around 20c and after a half hour stress test i hit a absolute max of 42c.
That's more like it. Great temps! Nice job. You're 100% safe as long as you keep it under 70c so you've got a lot of headroom for overclocking should you be interested. EDIT: Doing a quick google search, seems like most people can easily hit 4GHz with a half decent cooler. Your watercooler is better than half decent. I'd suggest trying it. An 800MHz overclock across 6 cores is a total of another 4.8Ghz of processing power!