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    Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label

    People should probably just stop trying to identify themselves with their hobbies. It's really quite silly and I've never understood it at all. Stamp collectors don't run around calling themselves stampers. What's next, coiners? Your hobby doesn't identify or define you and if it does, you need...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I just used one washer per corner.
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I picked them up at either Lowe's or Home Depot, using these as a guideline for dimensions: http://wedo.hillmangroup.com/item/products-18/nylon-flat-washers/58049-c?
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I'm the OP and I ended up adding washers after talking to Corsair. I can run Prime95 now at around 78C after an hour. So I guess the washers fixed my issue, I just don't like it.
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    Yup, you are correct. I always do a quick check for services still running after I uninstall something and I caught those 2 that got leftover. I googled and found the aisuite uninstaller but thanks for the heads up. It looks like it was the silly fan tuner of all things that bumped up my vcore...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I've got a new unit from Amazon, gonna toss it in tonight. I also uninstalled that damn AISuite3 because it seems to have bumped the vcore WAY too high without telling me what it was doing. Granted this is likely user error on my part as I've always used MSI or Gigabyte so AISuite is new to me...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    It's 1.265V
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I went ahead and had Amazon send me a replacement unit but one final crazy question, if I may. I was reading a few other threads and saw several posts on not using Prime95 and Haswell as it will just cause nearly all of them to max out nearly instantly. Some of the posts were 6 months old so I...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    Just an update, I added some washers to the back of the motherboard and it initially "looked" a lot better. The standoffs were actually flush with the motherboard. Prime95 say otherwise, however. I noticed there is STILL a small gap when I tightened everything up.
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I was kind of skeptical that I could push it hard enough to make a big difference but hey, at this point I'm willing to try anything! I guess I'll take it off again and try with washers. I knew I should have just stuck with my old trusty Noctua NH-D14 but I just had to try something different. I...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    OK, I did the test two more times, once without touching the pump and once while pushing the pump. I set my fan speeds on max before both tests and as I said, pump runs max all the time. Didn't seem to have much impact unless you really have to push the heck out of it. Hands Off: With me...
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    H100i

    Hi Joseph, I hope I'm not out of line but I'd love your thoughts or opinion on an issue I'm having with a brand new H105 and i7-4790K (using a brand new Asus Maximus VII Formula). I'm getting Prime95 temps that peg 100 instantly when I run the stress test on a non OC'd, out of the box setup. I...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I'm still at work for another couple of hours so I haven't been able to test just yet but I will as soon as I get home. I definitely used the 115x standoffs. The AMD standoffs are black while the Intel standoffs are more of a gunmetal color. LGA 2011 have a long screw thread on one side and a...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    Yup, I used the backplate that came with the H105. The H105 is supposed to have a new mounting system based on what I read (not sure as I've never owned a previous Hydro cooler). I checked the parts list and even read the online install just to make sure, the only washers provided are for ones...
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    Help with Corsair H105 and Maximus 7 Formula, horrible temps

    I've reseated it twice (cleaning with iso and using new thermal compound each time). The screws have run out of threading, I can see it on the back. It's like the mobo is too thin or something odd.
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