COOLING please help....

GIBURROWS

GIBURROWS

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I recently bought and installed the Corsair H50 and it got my cpu down to 62f at first glance but my system temperature is still around 75-80, I have the Coolermaster 932 HAF cas and the two huge fans in there as standard then the one that came with the water cooler (I removed 5 other fans as I thought this would do the job alone) it shut down twice (blue screen crash) after installation but has been fine for 20 hours now.

Any suggestions please? I want to never have to worry about cooling again, also is there any software so I can get temperatures without going to the BIOS?

Thanks in advance.
 
Which fans did you remove - there are 3 big fans, front,side and top so just wondering which you removed.

Have the case but not the cooler .

Did read that the 'correct' orientation of the cpu cooler is to have it sucking air into the case i.e. dumping hot air inside rather than removing it and decided that if I were to buy one I'd not run it this way as I could see temp.issues arising.

It may not be a problem but thought it worth mentioning.
 
For checking temperatures, use Speenfan or Realtemp.

As for cooling, if you are into building PC, cooling isn't something really that can be easily avoided. My advice is if your are not OCing, then just use a decent third party air cooler for the CPU and at least 2x12cm fans. One at the back the extract air, and one at the front to bring air in.
 
AgedIdiot said:
Which fans did you remove - there are 3 big fans, front,side and top so just wondering which you removed.

Have the case but not the cooler .

Did read that the 'correct' orientation of the cpu cooler is to have it sucking air into the case i.e. dumping hot air inside rather than removing it and decided that if I were to buy one I'd not run it this way as I could see temp.issues arising.

It may not be a problem but thought it worth mentioning.
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I only removed the ones I had fitted, not the ones already in the case, two on the side and another on the bottom.
 
Thanks for all the help (quickly too!!) I have just emailed Corsair as I thought the radiator would get hot and in their video for installation they say to point the fan inwards which would suggest blowing hot air into the case which seems a little retarded, I will see what they say but I'm thinking of turning their fan round and also fitting another to the front of the radiator to completely push out the hot air.

Again thanks
 
Obviously every set up is different so cannot be sure but it may be the case (sic) that by removing the fans and installing the cooler you've ended up with the situation that rather than having a good air flow through your case (haf standard setting is front and side fans sucking air into the case with back and top pulling air out) the (hot) air is (in part) sitting inside.

I hope that the above is of use :)
 
Yes that is spot on, so by following Corsairs video i've created a problem I was trying to get rid of (obviously they don't know what case I have and expect clever people to know what they are doing, but they are wrong!)

Fans will be added asap hopefully on a quieter speed with all the knowledge I have now, CHEERS chap's
 
GIBURROWS said:
Thanks for all the help (quickly too!!) I have just emailed Corsair as I thought the radiator would get hot and in their video for installation they say to point the fan inwards which would suggest blowing hot air into the case which seems a little retarded, I will see what they say but I'm thinking of turning their fan round and also fitting another to the front of the radiator to completely push out the hot air.

Again thanks
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I see what they are trying to say in which case you'll need the equivalent size fan to extract the warm air out as soon as it comes into the system, possibly located on the case cover before the warm air reaches the system. Water cooling doesn't normally follow the normal conventional air flow, for reasons Corsair have already mentioned.
 
I would not have thought that the loss of just the one 140 exhaust fan at the back would cause so many problems but ..... you never know.

I did very seriously consider buying the corsair cooler ( chose prolimatech in the end) and decided that I would orietate it so that the fan sucked air out of the case.

I read a few reviews where this had been done and the cpu temp. change appeared to be minimal. Also had thoughts of running push/pull config. to compensate.
 
In your original post you put 62f, I don't know what the f is for as that would be awesome if Fahrenheit as its only 16C, so I assume Centigrade. I have same case, cooler and fan set up as you and no cpu temperature issues. Even with my 470 running hot during gaming (around 85C - 90C) my cpu sits at about 40C

GIBURROWS said:
which would suggest blowing hot air into the case which seems a little retarded
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Why? Cooler air through the radiator will be better than warm case air. Also with the 932, about an inch above the h50 radiator is the 230mm fan for extraction.
 
Greboth said:
In your original post you put 62f, I don't know what the f is for as that would be awesome if Fahrenheit as its only 16C, so I assume Centigrade. I have same case, cooler and fan set up as you and no cpu temperature issues. Even with my 470 running hot during gaming (around 85C - 90C) my cpu sits at about 40C



Why? Cooler air through the radiator will be better than warm case air. Also with the 932, about an inch above the h50 radiator is the 230mm fan for extraction.
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I believe he is/was happy with the cpu temp. - it was the system temp (northbrigde ?)that was too high which I thought might be due to warm air being pushed back into the case - got to say that I cannot imagine that this would cause a massive increase but .....
 
I now have two fans either side of the radiator and system temp is at 38C and the cpu is now at a whopping 31C, Job done on that front now for my new problems in a new thread, thanks a lot for all your help chaps
 
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