AVC liquid cooling

[navyorion]

So I finally found out what liquid cooler I got on my system... Its an AVC brand... http://www.avc.com.tw/product_detail.asp?id=34
I cant tell anything from the website... Anyone know if this may be the reason why my cpu runs hot?

 

[beenthere]

Most low cost water-cooling systems like Corsair and the AVC - which looks very similar, are not great cooling solutions. High end H2O cooling costing hundreds of dollars is really the only cooling better than high end air cooled HSFs.

About all that you can do is make sure that you heatsink is properly mounted with minimal TIM and that the water is circulating thru the radiator. Ambient temp affects H20 systems just like air cooled HSFs so high room temps hurt performance.

http://www.frostytech.com/

 

[Motopsychojdn]

We would need more details tbh,
System specs, loads/idle temps and ambient if you can
Moto

 

[navyorion]

via core temp my cores run at idle temps of 33-40 c.... if I run a stress test they run at 70-80 , thats with turbo setting in bios turned on. core i7 950.... i think the turbo puts the stock speed of 3.07 to 3.2 mhz

 

[Motopsychojdn]

40's not a bad idle, I'd try to get the top end down though, maybe a couple of case fans on there to help out
And if your chips doing 3.2MHz, I'd be worried, you mean GHz?
Moto

 

[navyorion]

I installed an extra 120mm fan on the top of the case; temps stay below 40c at all times idle case temps are 28 ish c..have a spot cooling fan to help draw heat off my primary gpu pointing toward my top fan. When I do the stress test the heat goes from 40-70 in a matter of seconds... and slowly goes up to close 80. I've read that I should be able to easily over clock my i7 950 to 4 ghz no problem, but obviously I can't with temps like these.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

What one chip can do, is not necessarily what the next chip in the batch is capable of, I would say getting a good aircooler may be your best bet, unless you want to go real W/c of course

Moto

 

[navyorion]

you have a link to suggest ( best ) Air cooler and water cooler? and which one is actually better.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

I'm on the mobile atm so can't post links sorry, noctua dh14 is one hyper 212 is another, and thermaltake silver arrows are good as well
Moto