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System Name | Gaming PC |
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Processor | Intel Core i5 12400f at 5.4Ghz |
Motherboard | Asrock B660 Riptide PG (Eternal clock gen) |
Cooling | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II |
Memory | 32GB Kingston FURY Renegade |
Video Card(s) | Zotac RTX 4070ti Trinity |
Storage | WD SN750 SE 1TB M.2 + 2x Kioxia Exceria 480GB |
Display(s) | BenQ EX2780Q 1440p/144Hz |
Case | Lian Li 205M |
Power Supply | Corsair RM850x SHIFT |
I've been pulling my hair out at this for months!
I've been watercooling for around 3 years and never had any problems with cooling performance.
But since I've moved to AMD my temps seem rather high compared to what others are getting.
I'm running my Phenom 2 x6 1075T at 4.1Ghz with a load Vcore of 1.55v on an ASUS Crosshair 4 Extreme.
I'm running a Thermochil PA 120.3 with an Laing DDC with the XSPC drive bay reservoir and an XSPC Delta V3 CPU block.
There's 6 black and oranage Xigmatek fans on the radiator in push+pull, Each fan is rated at 66cfm. They are pulling air through the case and expelling it through the top, Swapping the fans over so they draw in cold air from outside and blow into the case makes next to no difference.
My loop is going pump > CPU block > Rad > Res but I have also tried pump > rad > block > res and again there's no difference.
Now as I said 4.1Ghz with a load Vcore of 1.55v and it's touching 70c during stress testing!!
If I drop the overclock and the Vcore It's still above 60c, Every other chip I've seen at these speeds and clock speed are running atleast 10c cooler on load then I am with a smaller radiator and less fans!
It's be no meens hot in the room either, generally there's a window wide open and nice cold air fills the room.
My opinion now is that it's my CPU block..
As you can see the centre of the base is a raised square and because of this only around 55-60% of the base makes contact with the CPU. I've thought about lapping it so that the base is removed and making it one smooth surface so the whole of the base makes contact with the CPU.
But from reviews of seen this lock is by no meens a bad block, even though it is getting on.
My second thought comes to fans, Maybe mine are no good?
Any help would be awesome
I've been watercooling for around 3 years and never had any problems with cooling performance.
But since I've moved to AMD my temps seem rather high compared to what others are getting.
I'm running my Phenom 2 x6 1075T at 4.1Ghz with a load Vcore of 1.55v on an ASUS Crosshair 4 Extreme.
I'm running a Thermochil PA 120.3 with an Laing DDC with the XSPC drive bay reservoir and an XSPC Delta V3 CPU block.
There's 6 black and oranage Xigmatek fans on the radiator in push+pull, Each fan is rated at 66cfm. They are pulling air through the case and expelling it through the top, Swapping the fans over so they draw in cold air from outside and blow into the case makes next to no difference.
My loop is going pump > CPU block > Rad > Res but I have also tried pump > rad > block > res and again there's no difference.
Now as I said 4.1Ghz with a load Vcore of 1.55v and it's touching 70c during stress testing!!
If I drop the overclock and the Vcore It's still above 60c, Every other chip I've seen at these speeds and clock speed are running atleast 10c cooler on load then I am with a smaller radiator and less fans!
It's be no meens hot in the room either, generally there's a window wide open and nice cold air fills the room.
My opinion now is that it's my CPU block..
As you can see the centre of the base is a raised square and because of this only around 55-60% of the base makes contact with the CPU. I've thought about lapping it so that the base is removed and making it one smooth surface so the whole of the base makes contact with the CPU.
But from reviews of seen this lock is by no meens a bad block, even though it is getting on.
My second thought comes to fans, Maybe mine are no good?
Any help would be awesome
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