Watercooling temps....

[[NH]bF0rD]

Sup all!

I just finished installing my new system and had some questions.. what is considered an OK temp with watercooling?

My system is connected as following cpu-nb-gpu and the temps are 48C idle, 58c full load. (CPU runnin at 1.575V) other info see my sig...
The system is build upon a mixture of waterchill and swiftech products. MCW5000 CPU, MCW20 NB, MCW50 GPU along with a Waterchill pump and Dual Extreme Radiator all 1/2"
Are my temps oki? Today i draw the air through the radiator from the inside of the case (casefans mounted on top of the radiator). Is this optimal? Gimme some suggestions and i will try them out :)

[Diablo II]

i guess your water is a bit warmy... so I think it's ok...

but you shouldn't get more than 40C on the cpu with watercooling and your settings and 20C water...

Check if enough water runs and use an "Y" connecting

CPU wb - RAD
GPU wb - NB wb

[retrospooty]

Your temps are fine for a MAX 3 mobo. They read higher than others.

[tritium]

Your temps maybe fine. I would reseat the cpu block just to be sure. 58 @ load does seem a bit high.

[Slickthellama]

you are more likely to get responses in the appropriate section (liquid cooling) as this has nothing to do with xtreme overclocking.

[interman]

temps seem high to me.. i run 3 waterblocks too and it has to be really hot for my idle temps to hit 40c.. might want to get some better cooling on the rad (i use two 120mm fans)

[lalPOOO]

58@Load is higher then I get with my SP-94 and a non tornado type fan, even with 1.62v on the chip. This is using an IC7, so my temps shouldn't vary too much from yours. I would deffinitly reseat the block and see if you've got any problems with your setup.

Slickthellama, at least this is based around xtreme overclocking, unlike most of those bh-5 threads. No point in being a thread nazi :p:

[Çhrist0ph]

try turning your fans around.

[Xymurgy]

Yea, ideally you should pull the coldest air possible through the rads (ie, from the outside of your case). You should be getting much better temps than that. Couple suggestions, some have already been said:

Make sure the WB and CPU are making proper contact. Make sure the WB is on tight.

Make sure you don't have too many additives in the water. You should have 5% waterwetter at most, maybe 5% antifreeze and the rest pure distilled water.

Make sure there's no kinks in any of the bends, any unnecessary restrictions.



What's a waterchill pump? I just looked it up it brought up both a Hydor L20 and L30. That may be too little pump to be effective in a 3-block loop. I'd think that if you put the GPU and NB blocks in parallel, flow would increasea bit, and improve your temps.

[[NH]bF0rD]

This is that the temps are with my fans runnin at 7V.. at 12V my temps are 44C and 48C.. thing is that if i take the air from the outside and push into the case there might be alot of dust along with the case temp maximizing.. am i correct on the temp?

[Çhrist0ph]

get dust guards on your fans. having some dust in case isnt as bad as those ridiculously high temps.

[STEvil]

Pulling air from inside the case creates a negative airpreasure which means any dust in the air WILL enter through any cracks they can, which means cd-rom/dvd-rom bays, PSU housing, etc..

Thats a no-no!.

[texuspete00]

Yeah, I was going to say yes it's true intake air is good but if you mount up top like I do, you just want to use the fans to pull through. Gotta go with something like the setups you see in the dragon cases if you want to go for intake air.