Air cool or water cooler. Recommendations.

Fiona78

Fiona78

Fiona78

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My CPU is overheating, the CPU fan speed went as high as 4300rpm, the PCH fan 4000 or so. Case fan stayed the same. CPU temp went as high as 79c so turned machine off. Sounded like a jet in my living room.
I have a Medion Erazer spec: Intel Core i7 3930K, Windows 7, 16gb ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 680, Cougar psu 750w (installed a new psu as the one medion installed was only 600w) ssd hd and seagate 2tb hdd. About 5 year old. Water cooled, cleaned all fans but not the water cooler fan, never replaced thermal paste in all that time. NO noise from water cooler so pump may have died.
Virus checked PC with mcafee and malware bytes but no virus.
It just overheated suddenly, BUt the water cooler has been making a ticking noise similar to a HDD.
Pipes from water cooler, one hot, one cool but the fan itself feels hot!!
If I replace the cooler should i go for air or water. Space may be tight in case
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Thanks in advance for help. Bit worried about removing the fan as i don't want to damage processor pins :(((.
 
Fiona78 said:
My CPU is overheating, the CPU fan speed went as high as 4300rpm, the PCH fan 4000 or so. Case fan stayed the same. CPU temp went as high as 79c so turned machine off. Sounded like a jet in my living room.
NO noise from water cooler so pump may have died. Thanks in advance for help.

Bit worried about removing the fan as i don't want to damage processor pins :(((.
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You wont damage the processor removing the cooler - but you may if you don't - look at it that way.

Looking at the space you have available i would look at replacing like for like (and i'm not a fan of AIOs) - as you may not have the space for a decent air cooler (with that MOSFET fan in the way) that will be as efficient as the AIO.

Someone may come along with more experience with that case/build - but if not an AIO would be an easy swap, and easier to fit than a bulky air cooler in such a small space.
 
Fiona78 said:
Thanks very much for your time and reply
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No problem - looking at the AIO unit it looks very similar to the OcUK Tech Labs 92mm - click on the second image when you get to page.

Measure the dimensions of the fan and heat exchanger and if they marry up it's probably the exact same unit which would make the swap over very simple:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

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