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Do these temps sound right?

mwin

mwin

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I just recently built a new watercooled rig. It's got a Danger Den/Swiftec 1/2" pump, DD RDX CPU block, Maze4 chipset block, 6800 waterblock, Black Ice single 120mm radiator (with fan pulling outside air through the radiator), and double 5.25" reservior. The whole system is plumbed with 1/2" ID tubing. These temperatures are under load, in celcius:

CPU: 39
Northbridge: 29
GPU Core: 70-74
Ambient: 35 (as reported by RivaTuner)
 
Just realized I left out some important information:

The mobo is an ABIT AV8, processor is an FX-55, graphics card is a PNY 6800GT. Everything's at stock clock.
 
reseat the gpu block... those temps are what you would expect out of stock...
did you use high quality tim?
 
I used Arctic Silver 5. It's quite possible that I used too much of it, though. I was thinking that I needed to cover the top of the chips with the stuff. I was getting way high processor temps with this method. After I cleaned the processor off and used the AS5 instructions, my processor temps dropped more than 20C. I was afraid the same thing was happening with the video card, which is why I posted this up.
 
Pulled the GPU cooler, redid the AS5, made sure it was seated properly and there was good compression on the springs. Temps have dropped to 49-51C or so. Much better.
 
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