Seidon 120v not cooling well

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With what you said, I'm betting you're bumping up against that little feller's TDP limits. You don't live in the Sahara desert with your case sitting in the sunshine do you? ;)
My 3258 only puts out maybe 60 watts(I got a good over-clock), yours puts out like 2 times that.
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I have one of those on a 3258. It's not bad for a 3258, but it's got limits. The FX chips uniformly put out lots of heat. That little 120mm radiator can only handle so much. Now with that said, how do you have your fan set up, and how do you have the radiator set-up? What are they plugged into and how fast are you running them?
 
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Push pull. Its in the back of the case. Fans are running off my fan controller they are all the way up
 
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What motherboard? How is the Seidon placed in the case? The AMD FX chips get hot and a lot of that heat actually comes from the VRM's. They provide power to the CPU, but if that power is warm, it's already hot going into the chip. When we remove a big copper heat sink and fan from the middle of the motherboard, we remove that cooling that cools the VRM and provides cooler power.

A good board with VRM heatsinks helps, but I found that VRM cooling helps a lot. Even the rear case fan blowing back in to get air moving over them, then exhaust out the top or something.

50 idle is a little weird though.
 
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Its running off the sys fan 1 set to 100%
 
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With what you said, I'm betting you're bumping up against that little feller's TDP limits. You don't live in the Sahara desert with your case sitting in the sunshine do you? ;)
My 3258 only puts out maybe 60 watts(I got a good over-clock), yours puts out like 2 times that.
 
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Might just have to upgrade

 
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BTW, what you running for fans(The stock aren't really that bad, course it only comes with the 1)? I bought a 120x25 delta to try out with it, my little case couldn't mount the radiator in normal setup so it's in a pull only setup. Looks stupid, but I get good temps with it.
 
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