Have I made a mistake?

JJimmyJ

JJimmyJ

JJimmyJ

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Hi all.

First post on the forums, please be gentle.
I've recently retired my old Corsair Nautilus 500 (yeah it's old). I decided the noise of the pump was too much and I'd be better going with a good air cooler. Bought myself a Be Quiet Dark Tower Advanced (on a reccommendation from someone).
Before I hooked this up, my old temps on the Nautilus were idling around 22c and load 35c max. Now I was never 100% on these temps, tried all different programs, but I was never convinced.
Now I've plugged in the air cooler and my idle is 29/30c. Haven't ran prime yet as I think this is quite an alarming jump from my previous temps on a 5 year old cooler.
Should I go back to water? Were my temps possibly reading incorrectly when using water (not sure how as I've used the same program for these temps).

Current set-up = AMD 945 oc'd to 3.6. 1.4v.
Asus M4A79XTD Evo,
8gb RAM
 
On the face of it I can't see any reason why changing the cooler would affect the accuracy of whatever temperature monitoring programe you are using, assuming it is the same as before and you haven't updated a bios or done anything to the OS. Looks like a simple difference in performance.
 
Thanks for response.
So basically I've upgraded to a worse performing cooler.
Was the Nautilus so far ahead of its time? Those 8c make a huge difference.
I may have to bring it back to life.
Any suggestions as to how to quieten the pump. Any good 40mm (or thereabouts) rads?

Thanks
 
Well I would do your load tests before you do anything else. If it runs as stable as before, so what if it is hotter? Try reseating again is always the next on the list before you bin it. I am assuming your case is optimized for air cooling now, i.e. good airflow in/out.

I've had a look at some images of the Nautilus but can't really see how the pump is mounted in it, though it doesn't look like there is much room for manouver tbh. Is it a hum type noise, rattle or whine? If it is a hum I guess the housing is acting as a loud speaker, there is not much you can do if you can't de-couple to pump from the box.

You could always extend the tubes and simply move the gubbins further away from the pc, in a ventilated cupboard for example.
 
Idle temps really don't mean anything. Run it on a prim95 and see how it fairs.

I don't see why you're surprised moving from water to air gave you worse temps though.
 
Thanks.
I ran Prime last night and it didn't go over 52c. Is this ok?

I was surprised at the temps mainly due to the benchmarks I've seen for the all-in-one coolers such as the H50 or antec 620. I thought air had caught up considerably. Looks like the old Nautilus blew all of these away.
I'm still debating whether to just get a new radiator and go back to the old faithful.
 
I think an average water cooling set-up is better than the best air, but will cost you more. The low end all-in-one's from what I've seen can be beaten by air, so this may be what you've heard about. Water will always be better at removing heat.
 
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