Rapidly overheating

extrememachine

extrememachine

extrememachine

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Have a 3 x 360 rad watercooled setup and whilst using games/gpu intensive applications am getting temps over 80c.
the loop includes cpu and 3 titan blacks.
I have tried filling res, adjusting pressure on pump.
I have recently changed psu to a corsair 1500i, could insufficient power cause overheating? if so.
 
Maybe one of your blocks hasn't been seated properly? Maybe you have the rad fans spinning a bit too slowly? Dust filters haven't been cleaned enough to allow air flow through the case?
 
Blocks are ok from my recollection .2 rads have the same corsair red fans, the third one has different fans that don't spin as fast as the corsair ones but could this really be it?
I have another 4th rad with fans installed but not looped, should I loop this as well? Or will the pump not manage it (d5 vario).
 
I could have sworn this same thread was around a few months ago?

The first picture looks like there is a nice big air bubble in the CPU block.
 
might sound daft but have you definitely got the pump connected the correct way both electrically and tubing? Can you see and swirling/turbulence in the res indicating flow?

Did you get all of your previous issues sorted?
 
This is a new setup disregarding the case.
The water flowed through the loop and then I just filled the res up.
The temps on idle are fine sub 30c but during gaming goes up exponentially ridiculously even the cpu goes like 70c and gpus over 80c.
The pump is the right way round there is circulation but very subtle you can see small bubbles moving, in regards to the cpu block will have another look.
 
Managed to get rid of the trapped air surrounding the cpu block by tilting it around for 5mins. Temps seem bit more stable but the 2nd card is always 10 c less than the other 2, strange?

Replayed gta and temps reached 80c on two cards and 63c on the other.
Any ideas?
 
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The pump cannot work correctly in that orientation. It needs to be on its side or with the pump pointing downwards. I don't mean to sound alarmist, but you could be damaging that pump for lack of water.

Excerpt from manual:

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Manual link: http://www.ekwb.com/shop/EK-IM/EK-IM-3831109842584.pdf

In addition I would say that you possibly don't have enough rads for that setup.
 
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The pump isnt enough for that kinda setup, what setting is it on 1 to 5 ?

test it on its own and see what flow your getting (it may have been damaged running that way)



also the cards need to be series as water will take the path of least restance and it will effect cooling

can you draw the route of your cooling

i was trying to work it out and failed were the third rad was
 
Think I would be more inclined to have the flow from the CPU block rather than from 3 GPU's then to CPU.

f its the GPU's is it one card getting hot fast or all 3 ?

Sounds like air trapped in rads/Blocks to me. Especially see the top rad with the in/out on the bottom. Not sure how hot the TB's run though. Might be an idea to run the pump full and remove the rads as much as possible to get any air out.

Could be like KarlMcWade has said, lack of flow with 1 pump.

I
 
Undesirable said:
The pump cannot work correctly in that orientation. It needs to be on its side or with the pump pointing downwards. I don't mean to sound alarmist, but you could be damaging that pump for lack of water.

Excerpt from manual:

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Manual link: http://www.ekwb.com/shop/EK-IM/EK-IM-3831109842584.pdf

In addition I would say that you possibly don't have enough rads for that setup.
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Undesirable, this done it for me, had a kink too but now is gone, thanks for that temps better.
Now I just face the issue of some games freezing on me)
 
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