Stupidly High CPU Temps

[almighty15]

So the Arctic Cooling F12s arrived. Installed them (twice cause I forgot how to cable manage) and set them to about 1000rpm. Just as quiet as my old fans but holy bawls have the temps dropped. So last night I was getting around 47C water temps and now it is 38C.

Is this now low enough? GPU is just stupid cool at 42C and CPU temps are maxing on the hottest core at 62C.

Only you can decide if those temps are good enough, run the fans at max speed and see if the temps drop even more.

And if they do drop even more you can then decide if the extra noise generated from running the fans at a higher RPM is worth the lower temps or not.

And told you the problem was with your loop

Also told people those Noctua fans just flat out suck and are over priced, over hyped tosh....

 

[DavidS14]

If the temps you quoted are under load then they are okay. What are the idle temps like because the delta between the two will give you an idea of the loops efficiency compared to your components thermal output,

My loop will get up to about 45°C after time under full load (3930@5GHz, 3x670FTW's) but like has been said it partly depends on how noisy/fast you run your fans, I like mine quiet so the trade off is slightly higher temps.

I can drop the loop temp down by tweaking the fan speeds up so I know my loop has the capacity to deal with the thermal output from the kit I'm cooling.

Time to worry is when you have to run your loop cooling flat out to manage the temps normally a sign of low flow/needing more rad capacity.

 

[Disco_P]

I am fine with the current speeds and temps. I can increase the speed on these fans if I want to and I can also drop them down a lot too.

The Noctuas I had weren't radiator fans and were pretty good as case fans. They also aren't they only ones guilty of stupid high fan prices, but recently I am enjoying getting non OTT hardware.

Temus were the highest I saw after many hours of BF3 which uses a consistent 99% GPU and 80-90% CPU.