- May 1, 2014
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Recently my friend decided to buy a gaming pc. And so I offered to help, since he is kinda noobish. He was rolling on a stock cooler for about a month and now decided to upgrade to something better. Since he was getting about 85 degrees celsius while playing farcry 4. So he decided to buy a h80i as its performance is very good for a single 120mm radiator.
However when he fitted in the h80i he called and said that his temps were too high. I told him to use hwmonitor, and he said at idle he was doing about 50 degrees.
Specs:
Case: corsair spec 03
Mobo: Asus maximus IIV ranger
Cpu: Intel 4790K
Gpu: Asus gtx 970 strix
Psu: corsair rm750
Cooler: Corsair h80i push pull
Windows 7
His case has 2 case fans one 140mm in front as an intake, one on the top as an intake, the h80i is in the back as an exhaust, and his psu is fan side up. We tried running with open and closed case and there was almost no difference.
His idle temps were jumping from 45-55 degrees and while running prime95 it jumped as high as 99. This was really too much and so i decided to reseat the block and reaply thermal paste. After that idle temps stayed the same but load temps droped to about 85 fans and pump at 100 percent. I still think this is way too high for a h80i. He is running stock and we set it to as low as 1.000V and this was still an issue. It was even weirder because when idling at the desktop his temps were spiking from 45-60 degrees. Even when the cpu was at minimum load 1-3 percent. We thought it might be an OS problem so we did a new clean install of windows. But this didn't help still the same results. We concluded that the cpu water block might be blocked, or the mobo is feeding the cpu too much voltage. Or maybe he just lost the silicon lottery.
Anyone with the same issues? Maybe someone with similar h80i problems?
What we tried:
Updating bios - no help with our problem
updating chipset drivers and all drivers - no help
reseating cpu block 2x - about 10 degree drop
setting voltages - no result
optimizing case airflow - no difference.
Reinstalling windows - nothing, still having temp spikes
However when he fitted in the h80i he called and said that his temps were too high. I told him to use hwmonitor, and he said at idle he was doing about 50 degrees.
Specs:
Case: corsair spec 03
Mobo: Asus maximus IIV ranger
Cpu: Intel 4790K
Gpu: Asus gtx 970 strix
Psu: corsair rm750
Cooler: Corsair h80i push pull
Windows 7
His case has 2 case fans one 140mm in front as an intake, one on the top as an intake, the h80i is in the back as an exhaust, and his psu is fan side up. We tried running with open and closed case and there was almost no difference.
His idle temps were jumping from 45-55 degrees and while running prime95 it jumped as high as 99. This was really too much and so i decided to reseat the block and reaply thermal paste. After that idle temps stayed the same but load temps droped to about 85 fans and pump at 100 percent. I still think this is way too high for a h80i. He is running stock and we set it to as low as 1.000V and this was still an issue. It was even weirder because when idling at the desktop his temps were spiking from 45-60 degrees. Even when the cpu was at minimum load 1-3 percent. We thought it might be an OS problem so we did a new clean install of windows. But this didn't help still the same results. We concluded that the cpu water block might be blocked, or the mobo is feeding the cpu too much voltage. Or maybe he just lost the silicon lottery.
Anyone with the same issues? Maybe someone with similar h80i problems?
What we tried:
Updating bios - no help with our problem
updating chipset drivers and all drivers - no help
reseating cpu block 2x - about 10 degree drop
setting voltages - no result
optimizing case airflow - no difference.
Reinstalling windows - nothing, still having temp spikes
*edit* and the top 140 should be exhaust not intake btw
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