Quote Originally Posted by fireice2 View Post
My room currently is blazing hot at 34c. Its a summer noon time here. My PWM and Chipset sits at 55c and 57c respectively.

Are they just within normal operating temps? I tried running the AC last night, my ambient were around 24c PWM and Chipset would idle at around 45 and 47c respectively.

When gaming temps would rise by around 5-7c. Temps were pretty much the same before and after I applied some MX 2. The PWM got the biggest improvement though at around 2-3c cooler.

@emoners

Does having a watercooled setup contribute to higher pwm and NB temps?
Having your CPU water-cooled may be part of why your PWM temps are higher (they are normally higher anyway). With a air cooled cpu, you have a fan that would normally blow air over the pwm to help cool it. Do you have enough exhaust fans in your case? You may have a high ambient temp in the case, if you have bad air flow. I bought an Antec adjustable cooler with a bendable arm to cool the PWM's. Since you have the UT, the heatpipe should equalize the temps across the blocks, so getting the hot air out of the area of the PWM (out of the case) should help the temps for the chipset as well.