First W/C Attempt

[iLLuSioN]

Well it started out when I saw thermaltakes bstock page and they had the Rocket fanless water cooling kit for $75. I figured it would be a good start to try my hand at it so I jumped. Long story short, it sucked lol. Temps where around 60c idle and mid 70's full load, needless to say I was unhappy since my scythe infinity did much better. So after about a week of that I got pissed off and jumped into it a little more by buying a d-tek pro-120 radiator and a reservoir. I stuck with the same pump/block/tubing(3/8) that came with the rocket and included the new radiator and reservoir taking the out shitty rocket. And I was pleasantly surprised by the 40c idle temp at stock speed jumping to mid 50's on full load. I quickly o/c'd to 2.8ghz and am now running at high 40's getting to around 60-65c under load. Is this ok for my setup? would I see a big change in temps with a better block or pump?
Ill drop some pictures when I get back from work it looks pretty nice inside my p180.

 

[michaLcoughliN]

depending on ur vcore those temps seem a lil high IMO. unless im not getting the full end of the story here

dont see why it would be hitting 60c on load if ur only bumped upto 2.8.. What is ur vcore

 

[iLLuSioN]

vcore is set to optimized in bios, I didnt feel like messing with it to much since I know I can hit that speed without changing anything. So I assume right now its default. I will check later though.

 

[iLLuSioN]

anyone?

 

[madmat]

The pump with that Rocket kit is very low flowing. Very, very low flow in fact. If you ditched it, got a better CPU block and moved to 3/8" tubing you'd see way better temp deltas between idle and load.