Water cooling temps way too high!

Justin Sisti

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Hey guys, I've been water cooling my PC for a couple of years now and the pump had finally failed. I purchased the same model and swapped out my pump and now my temps are crazy high!

I used to idle at 32°C on the GPU (gtx 980) and 48°C on the CPU (i5 4670k OC: 4.2 gHz)

After swapping the pump the idles start at the 60s for the gpu and cpu and just keep climbing into the 80s and that's as far as I let them go.

I've shook the computer around, flipped it upsidedown and released what I assumed would be all the air from the system.

Other info: the blocks really heat up and the CPU out fitting gets really hot but not the intake.

After reading around the forums I think it may be a massive air bubble somewhere or I need to reseat the blocks which I really want to avoid and I don't think is the problem.

I also want to know if my situation is different which is why I'm opening another thread.

I really need my computer to work for school so any help would be great thanks for your time guys you're the best around!
 

Justin Sisti

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Thanks for your help luminez I did some more searching around and found a method in which you fill up your reservoir as much as possible and then rotate your case/cycle the pump and that alleviated my stubborn bobble! I hope this thread will help anyone in the future and more importantly don't give up!
 
Sorry that I did not respond sooner...

Good to see that the problem got fixed. And you are correct about the method. You dont have to fill the res all the way to the max but that is more of a safety thing. When you tilt you case back and forth or side to side you dont want to push more air into the loop = make sure the res is full.

Turning on and off the pump + adjust RPM up and down.

Air bobbles can be a pain in the neck to remove depending on how you set your loop up. :)