Yes mate that's correct. Demount the AIO cooler, whack the stock CPU cooler on and see how you get on.
Cant get my PC running. Fan error, crazy temps.
- Thread starter neil1973
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Have you at least tried taking the cooler off and reapplying thermal paste? Potentially if its been sat there doing nothing for ages the paste has gone bad, but its a cheap thing to check by removing the cooler and cleaning off old paste and reapplying new... Worth a look anyway.
I could buy a stock cooler first and try that but if it is the AIO that's failed then I would then have to get rid of the stock cooler and buy a water cooler anyhow making the cost in time and money higher. Time is the main thing here. Can anyone think of an alternative theory apart from the cooler that could show these results?
Could thermal paste fail in a way it would cause these results?
Maybe I can get down the shop today and pick some bits up to do these tests.
Could thermal paste fail in a way it would cause these results?
Maybe I can get down the shop today and pick some bits up to do these tests.
Even bad TIM won't cause overheating temps at idle.
Options are:
- Failed mounting of CPU block and there's no proper contact.
- Enough of water molecules have permeated through tubing over time to cause lack of coolant.
- Something blocking coolant flow. (oxidizing/galvanic corrosion etc products)
While heat pipe coolers have fan as only wearing part (failure only decreases cooling) water pipe coolers have lot more things to degrade/wear, most of which cause eventually complete failure of cooling power.
Coolant flow thing would be easy to check be comparing temperatures of tubes:
Tube going to radiator should be clearly warmer than return tube from radiator.
Options are:
- Failed mounting of CPU block and there's no proper contact.
That should be easy to check and possible only if having bad to start with mounting design. (aka weak plastic crap)
- Failed pump or possibly actual impeller isn't turning with motor.- Enough of water molecules have permeated through tubing over time to cause lack of coolant.
- Something blocking coolant flow. (oxidizing/galvanic corrosion etc products)
If there's no flow of coolant waterpipe coolers basically lack all cooling power.
While heat pipe coolers have fan as only wearing part (failure only decreases cooling) water pipe coolers have lot more things to degrade/wear, most of which cause eventually complete failure of cooling power.
Coolant flow thing would be easy to check be comparing temperatures of tubes:
Tube going to radiator should be clearly warmer than return tube from radiator.
