berninicaco3
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- Mar 23, 2013
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Hi--
I built my rig a few weeks ago, but haven't done anything special with it.
Not that experienced at this.
I have a 3770k cpu, asrock extreme4 motherboard, and h100i water cooler, all installed in an Antec900. The h100i is installed in the front; with some tinkering, you can get it mounted in a push-pull set up with the existing 120mm fans there.
I just installed core temp, and it idles at 25-35C (no load), but when I ran prime95, it shot to 80C, then kept on climbing after a few minutes to 95C!
Granted, it's loading all 4 cores to 100%. The 4th core remained cooler, maybe 80C; cores 1-3 got quite hot though.
Is coretemp inaccurate?
Or... is something installed wrong? Like too much thermal paste or poor contact? I feel a $100 water cooler shouldn't let things get that hot!
The case has 4 120mm fans in line (blowing the same direction, before you suggest that sort of mistake) in front, 1 240mm fan on top, a 120mm in back, and a 120mm on the side.
I built my rig a few weeks ago, but haven't done anything special with it.
Not that experienced at this.
I have a 3770k cpu, asrock extreme4 motherboard, and h100i water cooler, all installed in an Antec900. The h100i is installed in the front; with some tinkering, you can get it mounted in a push-pull set up with the existing 120mm fans there.
I just installed core temp, and it idles at 25-35C (no load), but when I ran prime95, it shot to 80C, then kept on climbing after a few minutes to 95C!
Granted, it's loading all 4 cores to 100%. The 4th core remained cooler, maybe 80C; cores 1-3 got quite hot though.
Is coretemp inaccurate?
Or... is something installed wrong? Like too much thermal paste or poor contact? I feel a $100 water cooler shouldn't let things get that hot!
The case has 4 120mm fans in line (blowing the same direction, before you suggest that sort of mistake) in front, 1 240mm fan on top, a 120mm in back, and a 120mm on the side.