Temperatures slowly rising, need advice

pdoepke

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ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

AMD FX-9590 Vishera 8-Core 4.7GHz Socket AM3+ 220W Desktop Processor

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)

ASUS ROG MARS760-4GD5 GeForce GTX 760x2 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

Antec High Current Pro HCP-850 Power supply

SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

WD BLACK SERIES WD1003FZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Thermaltake Chaser Series Chaser MK-I (VN300M1W2N) Black SECC ATX Full Tower Computer Case

I have the front 240mm fan as an intake, a side panel 240mm as an intake, the water radiator on the top with dual 120mm fans pulling air through the radiator and exhasting out of the top and a 120mm on the back as an exhaust. When I first assembled my rig the CPU was running temperatures of 30-38 degrees celsius under load. Lately I added a GTX 210 video card to run the second monitor allowing me to utilize the dual GPU's on the video card. Sadly the second video card doesn't get along with the motherboard or something because it works sometimes and other times it has an error (43) and is disabled, so I switched back to dividing the video card between the two monitors. That however is not my issue, my rig has been showing tempretures rising up to 55-58 degrees celsius. I was running CoreTemp and it was showing these numbers and then I installed AI Suite II to further monitor internal temperatures, the two programs are showing the same GPU temp. However besides my CPU temp rising my Vcore temperatures are showing temperatures up in the 70's. Since it it summer the ambient temperature outside could be significantly screwing with my temps, But I am worried it may be something else, I clean my computer regularly (2-3 times a month) so I don't think its a dust problem, does anyone have any suggestions?
 

pdoepke

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Although yesturday I removed that second video card and it has honestly made a 10+ degree difference. I am guessing it was screwing up the air flow. Everything is still a little hotter then I would like though
 

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Hey man, got any pics of your case with everything in it?
Also, when you first built and finalized your PC did do any burn in testing with extreme loads?
Can't recommend this enough, it'll point to thermal paste issues relatively fast.
Do you have an IR temp gun? Helps identify hot spots in your case layout.
Finally, does your pump vibrate much or started making funny sounds?
 

pdoepke

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I purposely went out of my way to stress test the hell out of the comp. I plan on buying an IR gun just for that reason and no weird sounds from the pump. I think I have figured out the problem. Since I am running a water cooler setup with a voltage whore of a processor the Vcores are heating up like crazy, normally this isn't a problem but because there is no CPU cooling fan in that region there is no air moving and since the vcore heat sink sits close to the processor its attributing to the CPU's heat. I am building a Vcore cooler that will bolt over it and move the air out and when that is complete I am going to swap thermal paste to just make sure. I would post a picture but I don't know how on this