CPU temp too high (or cooler not working?)

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alexisdasiukevich

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My CPU (i7-3770) seems to have a higher temperature than it should. I have a liquid cooler yet when idle my CPU seems to be at around 30-45°C, and when gaming can even go as high as 68°C. Aren't these temperatures far too high considering I'm using liquid cooling? I also think it may be affecting performance as well optimised games like GTA V have constant frame rate dips no matter what settings I'm on. Thanks.
 
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alexisdasiukevich

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I have a Cooler Master RL-S12V-24PK-R2 Seidon, I saw a video about it on YouTube and the guy said when he games with it the highest temperature he gets is 40°C, and that's when he games. The only thing with mine is I put my radiator/fan at the top of my case, instead of the side, but that won't make a difference will it?
 
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Not at all. Temperatures of 80C won't cause throttling, and can be run perfectly fine for a long time, but lower is better. Those temperatures are really good, you aren't seeing bottlenecking- and lots of AIO coolers can peform at those temperatures on full load. I hit about 75 on my cpu air cooled heavily overclocked on full load. I would overclock that cpu if you are noticing dips so you get better framerates overall, but it is not the temperatures causing them. The cpu is built to withstand temperatures of up to 100C, so you are more than ok. If you want help overclocking just pm me. You could undervolt the cpu to get better temperatures, by just taking the voltage down until it is unstable, then increasing it, but you aren't noticing problems due to the temps.

What might be causing the dips is the gpu- how much vram do you have, if it is too low you will struggle to run the game properly.

You also can consider that ivy was quite a hot chip, due to dodgy thermal paste on the cpu die. You can delid a chip and replace it, but that is dangerous and not advised.
 
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AMD R9 390
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ASUS motherboard (can't remember what specific one)
8GB Ripjaws RAM
 
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what specific psu? also didnt mention your monitoring software. asus thermal radal for instance is inaccurate.
 
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Chris Reilly

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only asking because I did this once before by accident...is your fan blowing through your rad or sucking off it? I messed that up, and your temps seem to be about right for that mistake
 
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alexisdasiukevich

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Bear in mind it's an 3770 and not a 3770k, so it's much harder to OC. Also most games I don't have issues with, it only seems to be GTA V, Max Payne 3 and Far Cry 3.

Also the GPU RAM is 8GB, so more than enough.
 
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alexisdasiukevich

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The fan is facing inside the case, so away from the radiator (I think).

So should it be spinning clockwise or anti clockwise?
 
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Cooler Master GX and I'm using RealTemp.
 
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alexisdasiukevich

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I think that could be it actually, I just saw the video again and I need to double check if I actually did put it in right. I'll get back to you.
 
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Use a peice of paper or something that the fan can move to see which way the fan is working, you want your fan blowing the air through the rad..I always get confused too, so using paper is a fool proof way

 
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Ok so I've realised that the air flow in my computer was off and that the fan was on the wrong side of the radiator. I'm going to need to rearrange a lot of the fans now but I think that's the problem.
 
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