Old watercooling kit vs good aircooler

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At the moment I have an old Innovatek watercooling system I bought in 2001, parts are a Rev. 3 waterblock, 120mm aluminium radiator and Eheim 148 pump.

I have a E7200 running at 3.8Ghz with 1.475V and the CPU temp isn’t that good, idle is ~32C but as soon as I start Orthos the temps jump to 65C and stay there which is a bit higher than I expected.

Is it perhaps so that with the new 45nm CPU’s watercooling somehow isn’t as efficient as it was in the past?

I am thinking about getting a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 for 38 euro and just use that as I don’t have to keep topping up the reservoir and make some room in my case but how is the thermal performance of this cooler compared to my old watercooling kit?

Will it be comparable or will I end up regretting it as I need to reduce the overclock?
 
I've tried older water-cooling stuff with new cpus and although the rads and pumps are generally adequate, the block designs don't seem optimal for chips with huge dies and IHS. I tried building a system of old bits and ended up sticking in a Freezer 7 Pro for £15. Temps aren't great but they're not bad. I've heard great things about that Xigmatek and its surface area isn't far off your 120mm rad so sould cool well enough.
 
I've tried older water-cooling stuff with new cpus and although the rads and pumps are generally adequate, the block designs don't seem optimal for chips with huge dies and IHS. I tried building a system of old bits and ended up sticking in a Freezer 7 Pro for £15. Temps aren't great but they're not bad. I've heard great things about that Xigmatek and its surface area isn't far off your 120mm rad so sould cool well enough.
I am going to buy one and hope it cools adequately, it just seems my current watercooling system will be just a good with more hassle.

The strange thing is that the coretemp of my E7200 jumps from 32C to 65C almost instantly no matter how fast the fan on my rad is spinning or even how much Vcore I use which has me stumped as to what I can do to get it lower.

Is there any info or a rumour that perhaps the IHS on the E7200's are very inefficient that it doesn't matter how good a cooler you have it makes no difference at all as the heat can't go thru the IHS to the cooler?
 
I had the same with an old Asetek Antartica block on my Q6600 - load temps @ 69c (1.56v) - dropped a new D-Tek Fuzion v2 block in, went down to 55c. Changed the rad fans to a couple of Scythe 1900rpm ones, droped another few c's. Rad, pump, tubing all stayed the same.
 
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