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Hello, so i recently bought a closed loop water cooler, its a Arctic freezer 240. I previously had a cooler master hyper 212 plus and after installing the new water cooler i am getting much worse temperatures. When i run prime 95 ftt my CPU has hit 95c+ . I know this isn't right, i even reseated the CPU and re applied the thermal paste and I am still getting horrible and unstable temps. Does any one know what the problem might be? Thanks

P.s my CPU is a intel 3570k
 
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"Premium" liquid cooler is marketing when it comes to AIO coolers. That being said, the majority of them perform about as well as good/very good air coolers.

It still sounds like an airlock issue but also could be something else. Did you perform the steps I mentioned for airlock correction? Otherwise, it seems like you weren't going to be doing anything but returning the cooler, so perhaps this is a moot point by now.
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Hi, it does run, I checked to see if there was a difference with the temps when i unplugged the pump and there was quite a difference.
 
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Airlock, perhaps. Those AIO's tend to have this problem because the pumps are very weak and there often is some air in the units.

I would disconnect the radiator and shake it, turn it, etc while the unit is running. Reinstall so the tubing is always down (air rises) since you don't want the pump to pull in an air bubble to airlock.
 
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Thanks for the help, i think i may just rma it i have wasted to much time on this cooler already. I just hope the retailer i bought it from doesn't do something fishy. I already sent a email to their support, they replied with a very rude email stating incorrect facts and pointing the finger at me. I bought it from awd-it.co.uk
 
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Hi, been trying to get the company i bought it from to replace it all week, and they are constantly rude and pointing the finger at me. so a word to the wise don't ever buy from awd-it.co.uk . If you run in to problems with something you bought from them they will basically constantly give you incorrect help, lie about everything and tell you its all your fault. Also they tell you to do things that could damage your computer and then will not take any responsibility. I'm going to open a dispute on Paypal to get a replacement or my money back.
 
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They were telling me to go in to bios settings and configure the speed of the pump, and other suggestions when i just wanted this pile of trash out of my pc because my cpu was hitting 100c at times. They were just tryiing to blame everything on me and not even accept a return. Also I have run in to a problem, i amgoing to be returning this back to them soon and when they get it back they will be testing it. I noticed i run at 1.3v oc and it runs very hot on that but on ur default voltage it runs quite cool. So i think they will end up testing it on default voltages and determine its not faulty. I have noticed with this thing one side of the cpu always runs hot while the other is cool.
 
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So, it sounds like your issue is your vcore setting, perhaps a couple others?

If there was a problem with the cooler, it would also cause overheating at stock/default settings. What temps did you see when doing this?

If you had it setup to run PWM off a CPU or MB header, what they were suggesting likely was correct in attempt to evaluate whether RPMs were being set correctly. Not necessarily the #1 fix, but a good thing to investigate.

No offense, but this sounds like it is more your on your side and your overclock settings and not the cooler itself.

Far too often we see upset people because they assume that a cooler can handle any BIOS settings, even if they are configured in a way that is less-than-optimal. The cooler, no matter how good, can really only do so much because the temps being reported and valued are at the thermal sensors on the die itself and the capacity of the cooler is based on how well thermal load is transferred from the core, through the IHS, through the cooler heatsink/block and then to the cooling dissipation field.
 
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I had a cooler master hyper 212 plus on these same vcore settings and it never ran so hot, this is supposed to be a premium water cooler im sure it can get better temps then a 4-5 year old air cpu cooler. The cooler does run off the cpu fan header and the pump on a mb header, The temps i got with default vcore were around 80 ish. If i wanted to run it at stock voltage i think i just would have stuck with a stock intel cooler. Also another thing about the cooler is the temps even on 1.3v are semi acceptable apart from 1 core which is always suuuuuper hot. oh and ive tried re applying thermal paste like 4 different times and its always the same.
 
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that is a screen shot i took of a 15 min prime 95 benchmark on small ffts before installing my new cooler, that is on my old cooler master hyper 212 plus air cooler and now with the water cooler 1 second of prime 95 small ffts hits 100c . Im sure this cant be right.
 
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"Premium" liquid cooler is marketing when it comes to AIO coolers. That being said, the majority of them perform about as well as good/very good air coolers.

It still sounds like an airlock issue but also could be something else. Did you perform the steps I mentioned for airlock correction? Otherwise, it seems like you weren't going to be doing anything but returning the cooler, so perhaps this is a moot point by now.
 
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