Made a noob mistake last night

Nick89 · Mar 25, 2009

I reinstalled my Xigmatek S1283 last night before I went to bed and repackaged the Core Contact freezer. Well I used the computer this morning and I was getting Idle temps of 40C! I was like WTF! thats worse than the CCF I just took off! Well I figured I must have put the thermal paste on incorrectly or somthing. I decided to wait until I got home from work to reapply the thermal paste. Well I did a stress test with OCCT when I got home and the load temp goto 65C with no OC! I was like WTFH! I took the side of the case off and got ready to take off the cooler when I noticed I had never plugged the CPU fan on my Xig into the CPU fan header :twitch:

I have to say im impressed that the Xigmatek S1283 had such a good idle temp for being passively cooled :eek:

Binge · Mar 25, 2009

Because not all motherboards will warn you that your CPU fan is not plugged in. I have that feature on my motherboard. I turned it off since I don't use a fan.

Nick89 · Mar 25, 2009

Binge said:
Because not all motherboards will warn you that your CPU fan is not plugged in. I have that feature on my motherboard. I turned it off since I don't use a fan.

Yeah, I just learned that the hard way. :laugh:

Meltdown · Mar 25, 2009

Its good you keep eye on your temps

one time i put my fan on the cooler to tight so it woudnt spin not good 20 min later while in my game it crashed so i felt dum

r9 · Mar 25, 2009

I would guess that is much worse if you out 1.6v - 1.7v on water and the pump stops without you knowing.

Josh81 · Mar 25, 2009

my e6600 oc'ed to 3.3 gets 27 idle on chilly days (30-33 hot days) idle/50 full load without a fan on the heatsink, though i'm using an antec 900 case..with a monster 200 MM above my heatsink

if you're wondering why i'm not using a fan i RMA'ed my first heatsink because the pins were broken...and the one i received in return had a broken fan, and i didn't feel like rmaing again

Gonna strap a 120 MM on that badboy once my cable ties come

DonInKansas · Mar 25, 2009

Who needs cable ties? Rubber bands or duct tape ftw! :roll:

aspire · Mar 25, 2009

DonInKansas said:
Who needs cable ties? Rubber bands or duct tape ftw!

Who needs rubber bands and duct tape? Chewing gum and epoxy ftw!

h3llb3nd4 · Mar 25, 2009

nah I am currently using extra long wool to tidy up my wires

HolyCow02 · Mar 25, 2009

aspire said:
Who needs rubber bands and duct tape? Chewing gum and epoxy ftw!

Josh81 · Mar 25, 2009

My brother used one of those strings that they wrap around bread loafs so they will stay tightly closed to mount his fan on his GPU, lol.

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