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Hi all,
First time ive used something like this... needless to say the supplied guide is terrible. Anyway I got it on, but I was concerned:
a) The light never comes up on the corsair logo. I see other models have this? Does this model lack this or is this indicative that something isnt right?
b) It only had one 3 pin wire that I attached to CPU_OPT (water cooling CPU Fan Header) rather than the CP_Fan header. I assume that it doesnt matter too much.
When tightening the heat sink on I have hand screw/screw combination. The hand screws are tight (Yes I did it the cross-patch method 1-3-2-4 and so on), but the screws themselves never felt too tight, in fact rather loose. But I can see them attacking into the backplate points correctly. I am concerned of over tightening/under tightening.
The bios is reading temps of about 27 C (28 C ambient) at idle. After running a few games and rebotting it reads 33 C (37 C ambient - from the gpu i guess). I downloaded RealTemp and it seems to run at 27 C Idle and 51 C underload, im busy running further tests using Prime95, but this is well out of my realm of comfort, So any suggestions welcomes or better real time temp sensoring programs.
Sorry for the nab questions, but its been a long time since I bothered to build a pc...
First time ive used something like this... needless to say the supplied guide is terrible. Anyway I got it on, but I was concerned:
a) The light never comes up on the corsair logo. I see other models have this? Does this model lack this or is this indicative that something isnt right?
b) It only had one 3 pin wire that I attached to CPU_OPT (water cooling CPU Fan Header) rather than the CP_Fan header. I assume that it doesnt matter too much.
When tightening the heat sink on I have hand screw/screw combination. The hand screws are tight (Yes I did it the cross-patch method 1-3-2-4 and so on), but the screws themselves never felt too tight, in fact rather loose. But I can see them attacking into the backplate points correctly. I am concerned of over tightening/under tightening.
The bios is reading temps of about 27 C (28 C ambient) at idle. After running a few games and rebotting it reads 33 C (37 C ambient - from the gpu i guess). I downloaded RealTemp and it seems to run at 27 C Idle and 51 C underload, im busy running further tests using Prime95, but this is well out of my realm of comfort, So any suggestions welcomes or better real time temp sensoring programs.
Sorry for the nab questions, but its been a long time since I bothered to build a pc...
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