input needed on temps for watercooling system.

[collegeboy69us]

hello all,

i recently setup a koolance PC2-650 watercooled case... and before you instantly flame me, (because ive seen koolances taking lots of shit lately on here). Hear me out.

I went with this because i needed a new case, and wanted something completely integrated and setup for water. Anyways, i have that case with the koolance 300-H06 waterblock and the block for my 9800Pro, I have the system all setup, and im wondering about my temps. First off i have a Barton 2500 @ 3200+ speed, 1GB of GeIL PC3500 RAm, and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All in Wonder.

My temps are about 41C (114F) idle and under load and 132F (dont know what that is in C) under full load. Am I doing someting wrong because these seem high? This is the first time ive watercooled with my GPU in the loop... and ive been reading how the 9800s run hotter then hell... BTW, OC on the 9800 is 420 core, 348mem is that good or no?

I would appreciate your two cents on this subject... any advice on getting a few degrees lower would be cool too (literally)

Thanks in advance.
Jeff

 

[OneMadPoptart]

Having that GPU block really kills your water flow, especially in the small diameter, already low flow koolance system. I'm not saying those are reasonable temps for your components, but I wouldn't be suprised if thats all the koolance was able to cool them too. Sadly, there is little you can do to lower those temps. You can try reapplying your thermal paste and clamping down the waterblock as far as it will go, but that really wont help unless you did the install completly wrong. Short of backing down the voltages and overclocks on your CPU and video card, there isnt much you can do. I'm not saying the koolance is shit, its just that for more than stock CPU cooling (and especially with GPU cooling), it really cant touch DIY kits.

 

[strikerP4]

A freind of mine as a barton 2500 at 3200 speed and his never goes above 46C at load and about 34 at idle and his 5900U is at 550/1000 and it never goes above 44C hes got the danger Den blocks and res and a german pump he speacial ordered.

Try coolant additives this might help the heat transfer to the water. check the lenth of your tubing might be too long that would kill your flow. Double check the airflow over your radiator.
Using a hgih qualitly thermal compound there is this stuff made by 3M that is supposed to be just as good as acrtive silver but with no creeping.(that way you don;t have to pull everything off to reapply every 6 months)

All else fails try calling Koolance and get some tips from them.

 

[James McGee]

First off I am not gona bad mouth the Exos. There are enough that will do that automaticly. For what it is, it does a fair job of cooling "Normal stock" systems. However, it really doesn't have the capacity to take on good overclocks. The pumps are to small and the tubes are to small. You may have to cut back on your overclock to bring those temps down.

I'm sure someone is going to suggest getting a Maze or a Whitewater block, but in all honesty they aren't going to make that much difference in your cooling with the small tubes and pumps. No more probably than a degree or two at best.

You might try pulling the block off and reseating it with a fresh application of good thermal paste, just in case you didn't get a good seating the first time. Give it a couple of days for the paste to work in. Other than that I wouldn't expect to much outside of dropping back on the overclock itself. Cut back about half of your overclock and see what that does for you.