noob water cooling

Massive Attack said:
how hot you ask 52 Idle @ stock its not affecting my system but i want it cooler so i can get a decent overclock i am using everest ultimate to mesure temps, i am using zalman 120mm fans which push 87cfm at full speed and around 40 at slow i have a pic but its not very good
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E6600 at stock with that heatsink should be no more than a few degrees above ambient so either

a) your case-cooling is pants

or

b) your temps are wrong

or

c) your heatsink is not mounted properly.

To check your case-cooling what happens if you take the side off and direct a house fan towards (not directly into from a foot or anything stupid) the system. Does your idle temp drop to ambient? If it does you need to look at why your case cooling is so bad. I have an old PC-60 and its ambient temperature in a hot room today is around 32C.

To check you heatsink is mounted properly, take it off and look at the spread of your thermal paste. It should be evenly spread and of even thickness. If not, you have a poor mount and should check the socket area for clearance for your Heatsink and re-mount carefully.

To check your temps try using Intel's TAT or Speedfan or Coretemp or Motherboard Monitor.

Until you have this sorted you are wasting your time. If your starting point is wrong, your whole justification is wrong in which case you could be spending a lot of money for a flawed reason.

By the way, that rear fan is an exhaust isn't it?
 
helpimcrap said:
feel free to tell me i'm talking crap but i'm sure zalman did a decent cooler for the mb where you had to bend the pins. was a PITA but it worked really well on the NF4 boards... don't know about your setup but worth looking into. i know when i was looking at water cooling gfx and cpu were going to need a fair bit of planning, let alone blocks on the mobo as well.
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http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=71&code=014

This is the one I used that I think you are refering to.
 
Massive Attack said:
sorry i think we are talking about differnt things the NB is 52 idle my cpu is 40 idel on a zalman 9700 i have tried TAT but everytime i open it it crashses with some error message
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So is 52C causing you a problem when you overclock or have you not tried? How do you know that's "hot"? Do others with the same board have it running at half that? I don't understand why you're so intent on cooling something when you haven't shown that it is an issue.

I have quickly googled for 680i temperature issues and others have reported NB temps of mid-to high-70s so you've got plenty of wiggle-room.

Here is an interesting read of water-cooling a 680i board but not in a PC7.
 
MikeTimbers said:
So is 52C causing you a problem when you overclock or have you not tried? How do you know that's "hot"? Do others with the same board have it running at half that? I don't understand why you're so intent on cooling something when you haven't shown that it is an issue.

I have quickly googled for 680i temperature issues and others have reported NB temps of mid-to high-70s so you've got plenty of wiggle-room.

Here is an interesting read of water-cooling a 680i board but not in a PC7.
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ive not tried overclocking it as i thought it was hot i spose i could give it a go and see what the temps are, thanks for the link
 
My NB averages around 40c on water and was around 60c on air. Made no difference running cooler but was much kinder to the ears;)
 
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