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Evga 680 Overcloking

The H-50 isnt a great cooler mate especially if your blowing warm air from the case through the rad and out the back. Did you buy this system pre built from ocuk? if so when you bought it im taking it there wasnt 680 sli in it?
What you need to do is turn the fans round so that your pulling in cool air from outside the case through the rad and even better change the fans to apaches or noctuas or something like that. they are great rad fans that give a high static pressure. you WILL notice a difference doing this.
You can apply paste until the cows come home but until you address your cooling issue your problem wont go away.
 
The most annoying thing is i was literal about to order a new bundle from overclockers and flog this cpu on but i wouldn't want to sell it now, knowing what ive had with it.

I'm looking at buying one of there 4.4ghz spec ops bundles, with the sabertooth motherboard, Would you expect i would say a lot better temperatures with these builds? I believe its an ivy chip.

Regards
 
Just saw your last post.

put a second fan on the h-50 to give push/pull. it needs 2 decent fans to be effective especially when your dumping heat in the case from 680 sli
 
Defy Belief said:
Ivy/Sandy will be a lot cooler.

My 2500k at 4.4ghz is around 59 degrees on a max intel burn test. It wont be the chip I doubt just the cooler.
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Maybe but to be sure, stick the stock cooler (if you have it) on. If not, I have a stock cooler I will send you in the post for free Watling.
 
Awesome guys well i really appreciate both your time and help, its been priceless! My first action just for curiosity is to pop the intel cooler on, and then go from there. It's a shame, i bought this cooler i believe when it first come out which had really good reviews, then as time went on cheaper yet more powerful air coolers over took by a long shot
 
cammy5477 said:
Thats because its not set up right in his system.

ive had that cooler and that chip and know how to set it up but hes choosing to ignore me because he wants someone to tell him the chips knackered and to buy ivybridge !!!!
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This is not the case at all bud, or i wouldn't be trying the stock cooler would i :S Im not in the habit at throwing money at the problem to hopefully solve it.

I was looking at the bundle well before today and well before i encountered any issues with my set up.

If anything i don't want anyone to tell me the chip is knackered cause then there's no resale value for when i do decide to sell!!

And if ill be honest i wasn't ignoring you i was trying to avoid spending any more money on this cooler until i confirm the stock cooler reduces the temps, then i will go from there.
 
Watlinguk said:
Really appreciate that offer bud!!

Just had a look and can confirm ive got still in its box hid away up stairs :)

Thanks again!
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Nice one, just fit it and run it at stock, it won't be brilliant but it shouldn't really be hitting 80 degrees on games. Make sure the voltage is on auto or something along those lines in bios and not at the 1.35v you had on the OC.

As for cpu coolers, I wouldn't get a closed watercooler, some people like them but i've never got on with them. A massive chunk of metal on a cpu can't really become faulty. :)
 
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Watlinguk said:
Really appreciate that offer bud!!

Just had a look and can confirm ive got still in its box hid away up stairs :)

Thanks again!
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Nice one and no probs. Try with that CPU and cooler on stock and this way you will know if it is the cooler or the chip. I am not great on these H water coolers but 80C on stock regardless of what else is going on in your case (nice and tidy btw) is far too high.
 
My overclocked i7 overheated a while back and i solved it by removing the cooler, using new thermal paste and most importantly cleaning out the cooler matrix and fans.

Some compressed air did the trick as the cooler matrix was full of dust.
I dropped 10degrees under load afterwards.
 
gregster said:
Nice one and no probs. Try with that CPU and cooler on stock and this way you will know if it is the cooler or the chip. I am not great on these H water coolers but 80C on stock regardless of what else is going on in your case (nice and tidy btw) is far too high.
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Agreed :) . Ill let you know how i get on.

You haven't seen the back of the case :) out of sigh out of mind :)
 
Watlinguk said:
This is not the case at all bud, or i wouldn't be trying the stock cooler would i :S Im not in the habit at throwing money at the problem to hopefully solve it.

I was looking at the bundle well before today and well before i encountered any issues with my set up.

If anything i don't want anyone to tell me the chip is knackered cause then there's no resale value for when i do decide to sell!!
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Dude the stock cooler is mince.

your 680s are putting heat in your case which rises up. the metal rad you have is conducting that heat and the one stock fan you have isnt enough to clear the heat from 1 the liquid in the pipes and 2 the heat from the 680 warmed rad.

as i said i have owned the h-50 and it needs 2 good fans sucking cool air in from the back through the rad in push/pull to work right.

wether you choose to act on it is up to you but thats the issue you have with the hardware youve got.
 
cammy5477 said:
Dude the stock cooler is mince.

your 680s are putting heat in your case which rises up. the metal rad you have is conducting that heat and the one stock fan you have isnt enough to clear the heat from 1 the liquid in the pipes and 2 the heat from the 680 warmed rad.

as i said i have owned the h-50 and it needs 2 good fans sucking cool air in from the back through the rad in push/pull to work right.

wether you choose to act on it is up to you but thats the issue you have with the hardware youve got.
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I am not arguing but even the stock cooler will give better temp readings if that H cooler is faulty. I run 680 SLI and my CPU idles at 27C-29C and on load maxes at 60C-65C. It is a Gelid cooler and nothing special.
 
gregster said:
I am not arguing but even the stock cooler will give better temp readings if that H cooler is faulty. I run 680 SLI and my CPU idles at 27C-29C and on load maxes at 60C-65C. It is a Gelid cooler and nothing special.
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The old i7s run quite hot compaired to what you have gregster.sandybridge is the coolest running chip there is i think

The h-50 isnt a great cooler it does need to 2 good fans. I think what id be doing is buying a new cooler maybe a h-80 or h-100 which if he does buy a new mobo and chip can take with him to the new system.

or just go custom water cooled or even better water chilled then you could have 4 680s and it wouldnt matter :-)
 
Wouldn't recommend a closed water cooler tbh, all I see is people complaining about them being noisy and having to replace the fans. £80+ on a cooler and then another £20 on fans is stupid money.

As you say i'd only recommend anything watercooled if it's the entire system.
 
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