improving my watercooling setup help advice needed please

kmufc77

kmufc77

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i have a swiftech appex H20 kit running for 2 months approx which is cooling a 8800 GTX and a Quad core 6600 (BE revision) all at stock settings.

im using Artic silver 5 paste using the Artic silver web site instructions for a quad.

Quad 6600 is being cooled with the Apogee waterblock which comes standard with the kit

8800 GTX is being cooled with the universal D-TEK Fusion GPU VGA Block

GTX Tempertures are 40 Idle / 46c Load

Q6600 Tempertures are 48-50 Idle/ 55-65 Load

Now the GTX tempertures are superb but the Q6600 are poor in my opion i have reset the water block on cpu and made sure thermal paste is applied correctly.
The only thing i can think of which is giving me poor cpu temps is having just 2 rads so my question is how would i add a extra single rad to my setup or is it more worthwhile to buy a 3 rad thermalchill rad instead of my standard swiftech 2 rad setup. can anyone agree with me that this is the reason why im getting poor cpu temps.

I have a coolermaster stacker case with the swiftech kit fixed to the back of the case where the standard 120 mm fan is fitted. so im not sure how i would fit a extra rad in my setup?

Many thanks in advance

Dean.
 
kmufc77 said:
I have a coolermaster stacker case with the swiftech kit fixed to the back of the case where the standard 120 mm fan is fitted. so im not sure how i would fit a extra rad in my setup?

Many thanks in advance

Dean.
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I've got a CM Stacker.

1 x 120mm Rad in roof ( with no cutting )
1 x 240mm Rad in Front Drive bay
1 x 360 Rad on Back

Have a look here :

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17305236&page=16

( near the bottom of the page )

Might give you some ideas.

Mark
 
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