Quote Originally Posted by Benton View Post
Ive got it installed. Its a nice little block and it made a difference of about 10-15C to the IOH and 5-10C for the ICH, for me. I didnt take off the Motherboard heatsinks and clean them though, I just put this EK block straight on. I am replacing it with an EK full cover block this week though. Just waiting for it to arrive. Im also doing a few other upgrades while Im at it. Im doing this this because the IOH still gets up to 70C when Overclocking. This is OK but I plan to push my system a lot further. Ive reached 4.5 so far with my 980X. I live in a very hot climate, ambient temp is constantly over 30C. I run my system 24/7 for gaming, encoding, benching, downloading, business, so it gets pushed pretty hard. Im changing the motherboard waterblock over to the GPU loop because it has a quad radiator mounted on the outside of the case where the CPU loop has a triple radiator mounted on the inside of the case.
What are you using to read the ICH/IOH temperatures? According to Everest it doesn't look like temps dropped all that much from adding the block. Although I never see the IOH get that high. Max it hits is around 55C and the ICH about 50C.
Quote Originally Posted by turtletrax View Post
To bad to be honest. The WORST tim I have ever seen by far. I looks like the candle wax they wouldnt use in the crappiest candles in history. Also turns to stone after a few uses.
It just looked like the typical thermal pad used to me.