CPU hot even with water cooling

could just be a poor sensor, my chip is said to be running at about 43 degrees (opteron 146) but using a thermometer it is about 25-30 degrees. IMO if it works then leave it, if you are suffering crashes then look into it more.

daven
 
if your going for water cooling then as standard you should be running without the ihs to begin with. otherwise its pointless to go water if your not gonna get 100% cooling efficiency.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
if your going for water cooling then as standard you should be running without the ihs to begin with. otherwise its pointless to go water if your not gonna get 100% cooling efficiency.
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Thats utter ****.

Pointless going water with a IHS, have a few of these for this post and other posts of yours :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: .

Phase yes, IHS off, water? No (unless its really bad, then your RMA it anyway...)
 
To be fair, whether to remove the IHS with water does depend a little on what block you're using. Many of the impingement blocks have a quite small optimal cooling area equivalent in size to a cpu die rather than the relatively large IHS.

Personally, I don't like IHS and never have but whether to remove them or not must be a personal risk/reward assessment not a matter of dogma.
 
Is IHS that gunk you put on the CPU under the heatsink?

Also to stay on topic, my x2 4800 @ stock idle's at 41C with air cooling, so your's cant be too bad at the temps you have, especially with the temp your room is!
 
No, IHS = Intergrated Heat spreader, but in all fairness it does naff all. The only reason its there is to stop the core being crushed.

Its also very hard to remove some IHS now, as AMD and Intel solder them on :eek:
 
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