What the heck got borked?

One_Hertz · 04-10-2006, 06:12 PM

Ok Lately i've been having severe problems with my watercooling setup. The setup is as follows:

BIX3 with 3 38mm 80cfm panaflos
iwaki MD-20-rlzt
Swiftech Strom
Maze 4(in the loop but not hooked up to vcard)
cleaflex 60 tubing
Zerex additive (about 8%)

When I just set it up 4 months ago the temps were just fine with baout 40C load on 130watts or so of heat with an ambient of 25. Now however I cant even run my comp loaded for extended periods of time before my now stock X2 reaching 60C! it's pretty freaking ridiculous because in the first 10 min or so of dual prime95 its floating at around 40C and from then on it just slowly keeps rising up and up to 60 when I shut it off. I've cancelled out a rad problem because as soon as i turn off the prime95 then the cpu goes to like 4C above ambient, which means water isnt getting hot at all. the idle temp is fine as well. I have no idea wtf is happening or how this is happening but it is. It only got this bad after I remounted the last time but before it was pretty bad as well. Although I have no idea what I did wrong with the mounting of the storm and have redone it multiple times with a similar result of slowly rising temps. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm now off to remounting the waterblock again

edit: hmm when I run a single instance of prime the cpu only gets to liek 45C and stays there... By now I am thinking temp sensor?

safan80 · 04-10-2006, 06:17 PM

when is the last time you (re)applied thermal Grease?

One_Hertz · 04-10-2006, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by safan80

when is the last time you (re)applied thermal Grease?

today

creidiki · 04-10-2006, 06:25 PM

You still have the IHS on? And the pump is working fine yes (silly question with a stormtrooper, but might as well get that out of the way)

dnottis · 04-10-2006, 06:36 PM

Storm is probably plugged.

creidiki · 04-10-2006, 07:23 PM

Thats the most likely thing, yup.

other things that can cause those symptoms:

your pump dying (an iwaki dying in a pc waterloop, yea, right, pull the other one)

TIM1 (thermal grease between die and IHS) got all squeezed out byt thermal cycles and remountings (extremely unlikely and its far more gradual than this)

MaxxxRacer · 04-10-2006, 11:35 PM

Possibilties

1. A Clog somewhere
2. A Bad Mount of the CPU Waterblock
3. Your Pump is Dying. (but highly unlikely)
4. Your Onboard sensors have gone crazy

A comment on #4. On my Abit 939 testbed, the mobo reads the CPU temp as 70C at load (its not), so its possible that the motherboard or on die sensor flew over the cookoos nest.

~~KaptCrunch~~ · 04-11-2006, 02:44 AM

or your PSU is failing underload.

One_Hertz · 04-11-2006, 04:01 AM

My psu is PC P&C 510 deluxe and I really doubt its maxed out, so yeah most likely a clog in the storm. I reseated the block 3 times with very similar results so thats most likely not the problem here as well. I doubt my pump is not working properly because I clearly see the water level in the tline rise substantially when i turn it on and stay high while the pump is working, which means there is a constant increased pressure within the loop. I guess I'll be flushing the system this weekend. Thx for the help.