anyone else tried this to reduce CPU & Vcore temps??

Fraczish

Fraczish

Fraczish

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I decided I needed to Improve the cooling before pushing any further as the temps were not looking all that clever, I have ordered some additional cooling to help but whilst I wait for delivery I wanted to set some benchmarks to see if I make an improvement on not.
I noticed whist running Prime my Vcore temps seemed to get alarmingly high and didn’t seem to stablise. Heres what was happening on the stock 212 evo fan in Push.
Idle shows:

CPU @ 33
VCore1 @ 39
VCore2 @ 38

10mins running Prime shows:
CPU @ 57
Vcore1@ 65
Vcore2 @ 53

I have read about the main flaw in the Evo cooler is the heat between the contact point and the heat sink. After thinking about this for a while I realise that the VRM Heatsinks are also out of the airflow of this cooler. So out of pure experimentation I mounted my fan as low as I could (20mm approx) to allow for air to pass under the heatsink across the CPU and over the vrm heat sinks. I re-ran the same tests and the results showed as follows:
Idle Shows:

CPU @ 31
VCore1 @ 34
VCore2 @ 34

10mins Prime:
CPU @ 54 (stable)
VCore1 @ 59
VCore2 @ 49

Really pleased with those improvements with nothing more than a re posistion of the fan. I don’t know if this is old news but I thought it might be helpful to someone
 
I've been doing this for years. First it was to fit big coolers and fans in small cases, but after finding out how much it helped cooling ...
 
I recently positioned a extra decent quality fan (case dependant) to blow air towards the contact point of air coolers on the cpu. Does make a difference.
 
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