I have recently changed to a water cooled setup, but have run into issues regarding high temperatures (particularly with the vcore and the motherboard sensor as reported by Asus AI Suite II) as well as excessive fan noise.
Id appreciate any tips regarding the optimal fan set up and anything else I might be doing wrong.
Please see below for screenshots of temps (with the side panel off) and a photo of the case
Performance so far (in terms of heat and noise at idle for both CPU and GPU, and at load for the CPU) is worse than when I had air cooled GPUs and an H100 on the CPU, although GPU noise and heat at load is lower
System
Cooling and fans
Finally, any thoughts on the (24/7) OC performance for CPU and GPU I should be targeting for this setup?
Thanks for your help,
Tom
Idle temps with the side panel off
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Temps after one game of SC2 - system crashes if MB sensor gets much hotter
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Id appreciate any tips regarding the optimal fan set up and anything else I might be doing wrong.
Please see below for screenshots of temps (with the side panel off) and a photo of the case
Performance so far (in terms of heat and noise at idle for both CPU and GPU, and at load for the CPU) is worse than when I had air cooled GPUs and an H100 on the CPU, although GPU noise and heat at load is lower
System
- Case: Corsair 600T SE
- CPU: i7-3960X with EK-Supreme LT UNI waterblock (overclocked to 4.3 using the OC Tuner)
- MB: Asus Sabretooth X79
- GPU: 2 x Radeon HD 7970 with Koolance VID-AR797 waterblocks (not overclocked)
- Ram: 4 x 4GB GSkill
- HD: Intel 5 series SSD and 1 TB HDD
Cooling and fans
- Single loop
- 2 x Bitfenix Spectre Pro 120mm on exhaust at the top
- 2 x Bitfenix Spectre Pro 120mm on intake at the front
- 1 x Coolermaster 120mm as intake at the back
- 2 x XSPC EX240 Multiport Series Copper Dual-Fan Radiator
- XSPC high flex hose
- XSPC Acrylic Dual 5.25" Reservoir and Laing D5 pump
Finally, any thoughts on the (24/7) OC performance for CPU and GPU I should be targeting for this setup?
Thanks for your help,
Tom
Idle temps with the side panel off
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Temps after one game of SC2 - system crashes if MB sensor gets much hotter
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