Extremely high temps at load all of a sudden?

Borsch said:
My problem is the snapped cooler frame. I'm filling our RMA to Arctic Freezer right now and hope they will replace the frame. I'll be without PC for a week now:mad: Why couldnt they make the frame sturdier?! (rhetorical question :rolleyes:)
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You don't have the retail CPU cooler?

Soz not reading properly. Well if you are in the Birmingham area, you can borrow mine.
 
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Its funny how in this modern age its not the super small transistors that fail, but still the good old mechanical breaks in supportt braces... :)

Maan, I hope my CPU was not damaged from running with broken cooling for 2 days ( I had two blue screens before I decided to investigate and found mega high temps)
 
did you ask those that make the cooler to send you another mounting bracket? email them a picture of the broken one,you can carry on using the cooler if you superglue the crack and bind it with tape,itll do temporory while your waiting on a new bracket for web browsing ect,i wouldnt stress or oc the cpu though
 
Justintime said:
Nah it'll be fine.
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Hope you're right:)

wazza300 said:
did you ask those that make the cooler to send you another mounting bracket? email them a picture of the broken one,you can carry on using the cooler if you superglue the crack and bind it with tape,itll do temporory while your waiting on a new bracket for web browsing ect,i wouldnt stress or oc the cpu though
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Yeah, I've sent an email to the shop I've bought it from as Arctic Cooling do not deal with RMA directly. Sent it yesterday, but with it being Easter and Bank hol on Monday... If they refuse, I'll order Gelid Tranquillo from OCUK (I'm qualified for free shipping now:) - should have bought it first time round really.

Justintime said:
I'd never superglue or tape a cooler bracket, too much stress and heat to trust anything like that imo.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna risk it. My fav games are all CPU intensive too.
 
Justintime said:
Yeah you need to reseat your cooler.
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I just did and do you know what?

My frame has snapped in the same place as Borsch's.

I've only had it since this January too.

I'm not sure how or when it happend but it won't keep the heat sink on correctly now, and my pc auto shuts down when I power it on.

I'm also not sure how to get it replaced. I brought it off the rain forest but I don't know how they handle RMA.
 
You need to contact the seller as Arctic do their warranty service not directly but through sellers.

It looks like we got frames from bad batch, these coolers have hundreds of 5 star ratings on various sites. Just hope that replacement will not break in three months again.
 
Got no reply from either Arctic or the vendor, so ended up superglueing it. Worked well, plastic has melted around the crack, and I pulled very hard on it but it is really solid. Will put it in tomorrow.
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Justintime said:
It'll crack again, almost a surety.
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Do you mean it will crack around the old spot or form another crack elsewhere? The choice of plastic for the base was very bad imho - it looks like it has tiny micro-fractures all over it, even far away from the 2 screw holes. (Or maybe they are just mold imperfections?)

I've installed the frame back, it was a major struggle as a tiny bit of superglue has leaked into the nut, so I had to clean that with a needle. Got there in the end.

I've OCed my system back to my sig setting, and its idling about 3-4 degrees higher than it used to be. Although its hard to be certain, as my gf has put central heating on full bore today:)

The weird thing is that I never saw reviews with any sort of complaining about bad build quality of Freezer 7 Pro rev2:confused:
 
Just did 10 minutes in Prime and its not very good. Previously I had below 70C after 20minutes, now its hits 81C.

Also one core is about 8-9C hotter than the coolest core (despite 100% load on all of them) - is that due to bad thermal paste job? Theoretically, if I put the paste really smooth and even will all my cores be have the same temps as my current coolest core?

I also found a visible scratch on the contact plate of the cooler - how crucial is it for the plate to be mirror like smooth?

 
It's common to have a slight variation in temps across the cores on these chips. Allthough In your case I would just replace the cooler and have done with it under the circumstances.
 
Just received an email from Arctic Cooling - they will send a replacement bracket. Hopefully my mended one will live until then.

I almost bought Gelid Tranquillo yesterday when it was £22 special offer at OCUK, now I'm eyeing up Akasa AK-CC4007EP01 Nero 3 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/2011/AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/FM1) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-086-AK.

Unlike Gelid, this one is is more future proof - has support for socket 2011... Cant find any reviews of it though:(
 
OK, to finish the story:

Received replacement bracket from Arctic cooling today. But postman has also brought CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo so that will be my cooler from now on- and yes it is much better (but also costs twice more of course).

The superglued bracket was on its last legs- now that I've taken it out I see that the glued break has started splitting again. It lasted for about a week and it was ok, but would not work as a long term solution - just too much heat/pressure I guess.

Anyway, the system is fine, CPU purrs along happily, so no damage was done - all well that ends well:)
 
Borsch said:
OK, to finish the story:

Received replacement bracket from Arctic cooling today. But postman has also brought CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo so that will be my cooler from now on- and yes it is much better (but also costs twice more of course).

The superglued bracket was on its last legs- now that I've taken it out I see that the glued break has started splitting again. It lasted for about a week and it was ok, but would not work as a long term solution - just too much heat/pressure I guess.

Anyway, the system is fine, CPU purrs along happily, so no damage was done - all well that ends well:)
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Superglue doesn't usually do well inside a PC case. Some decent 2 part epoxy would do the trick though, if you want to keep it as a spare.
 
OMG, you wouldnt believe it! :D I just looked again at the replacement bracket that Arctic have sent me- IT'S CRACKED at the very same place! Wow, that is some quality control that they've got...:rolleyes: I didn't even use it yet!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not just the budget Freezer7 that uses this mounting bracket, but their entire range of coolers - freezer13 etc? Maan I'm so happy CoolerMaster did not skimp and made a heavy duty steel base for my new hyper 212 Evo cooler:)

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