- Feb 9, 2015
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Hi I just installed my H100i today on my i7 950 - with the asus x58 sabertooth motherboard, I have an older corsair 600d case, I have a corsair 120mm fan from the back pushing in, a 200mm corsair fan pushing in from the front, and then the rad mounted on the inside of the case, on the outside of the case i have 2 noctua fans pulling the exhaust out the top of the case.
I had a noctua 4 heatpipe cooler with the 2 noctua 120mm fans and at idle wouldn't go above 45c - and 80c under load - with the 4ghz overclock.
Now that I've installed my H100i rad on first start up I'm running 52c
and thats at idle.
I did have some trouble mounting the block because the back braket seemed loose, I attempted to install it backwards. I did realise how stupid I was being and installed the back bracket the way the instructions told me to do before I ever started it.
I had already attached the block to the bracket and CPU. So at this point I didn't have any fresh thermal compound to put between the block and the cpu as it comes pre-installed.
The compound seemed ok to reuse? Is this why it's performing so poor?
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Really appreciate any help!
Thanks!
T
I had a noctua 4 heatpipe cooler with the 2 noctua 120mm fans and at idle wouldn't go above 45c - and 80c under load - with the 4ghz overclock.
Now that I've installed my H100i rad on first start up I'm running 52c
and thats at idle.
I did have some trouble mounting the block because the back braket seemed loose, I attempted to install it backwards. I did realise how stupid I was being and installed the back bracket the way the instructions told me to do before I ever started it.
I had already attached the block to the bracket and CPU. So at this point I didn't have any fresh thermal compound to put between the block and the cpu as it comes pre-installed.
The compound seemed ok to reuse? Is this why it's performing so poor?
free picture upload
Really appreciate any help!
Thanks!
T
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