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I installed my first watercooler, corsair h100i v2. Everything seems to be working fine except for the high temperatures I am getting on my CPU. I am idleing(?) at 50ish degrees Celcius and this seems very high to me. I was wondering if I installed it incorrectly or something. Thanks.
 
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There's a Corsair Link software that you can install to control the fans and pump from Windows: try increasing their speed from there. If that doesn't bring your temps down, i would suggest re-installing: you take the waterblock out, clean it and the CPU with some alcohol, re-apply a little thermal paste and screw again.
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If you have the pump attached to the CPU fan header, as most guides will tell you to do, set your CPU fan speed higher in the BIOS. This will put more power into the pump, cooling more effectively. With some coolers you have to run the pump at 100% all the time.
 
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Unless where you live the current ambient temperature is around 40 degrees, you have probably not installed it correctly :) When idling, the CPU should be no more than 10 degrees above ambient.

Have you used thermal paste? Which one and how much?

When fastening the waterblock on the CPU, did you go on until all screews ran out of thread? Did you do it progressively, in a X fashion? (i mean: you start fastening a screw a little, then you pass to the one in the opposite side, then the other pair, etc.: tightening a little each screw so that never does one side have much more pressure than any other?)

Then you have to plug the pump into the CPU fan header.
 
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I did the X fashion as you describe, and there was thermal paste already on the cooling block. In the BIOS I can't change the fan speed. In the BIOS it says the temp is about 26 degrees Celsius but on AMD Overdrive it says its 50. ???
 
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There's a Corsair Link software that you can install to control the fans and pump from Windows: try increasing their speed from there. If that doesn't bring your temps down, i would suggest re-installing: you take the waterblock out, clean it and the CPU with some alcohol, re-apply a little thermal paste and screw again.
 
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AMD Overdrive doesn't report actual temperature. They use Thermal Margin, which is essentially the difference between the current and max temperature. If you test the processor with Prime95 you'll actually see the Thermal Margin decrease, meaning you're getting closer to the max temp.
 
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So is the temperature my BIOS showing correct? It displays 26 degrees.
 
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