Swiftech Storm CPU Block worth replacing?

Trunkey · 20 Jun 2015 at 17:19

Title says it all are there more modern CPU water blocks that will give more effective cooling in a series loop?
Pumps a D5 so has the power to makes this jet type block work.

Trunkey · 20 Jun 2015 at 17:29

Are there charts to back that up?
My storms giving me load temps of 50'c under load on a g3258
5-10 degrees lower than that would be impressive!

Trunkey · 22 Jun 2015 at 00:20

Nice one thanks for that Jokester!
The Pentium CPU is a stop gap until my dead i7 is replaced

Trunkey · 22 Jun 2015 at 13:08

Decisions Decisions which block to go for.

XSPC Raystorm or Heatkiller or EK Supremacy Evo

i7 4790 is on its way so that's what has to be cooled.

Trunkey · 22 Jun 2015 at 14:02

EK it is then

EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO & Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut.

Ordered.

Trunkey · 23 Jun 2015 at 22:29

EK waterblock arrived today, what an awesome thing, the weight of it and the mounting system I think just shrieks quality. Looking forward to seeing if it performs as good as it looks.

Trunkey · 25 Jun 2015 at 15:13

Wow! Big temp drop circa 8 degrees but my GPU is now 5 warmer no doubt due to getting warmer water off the CPU !
Time to go two loops off the res me thinks.

Trunkey · 25 Jun 2015 at 20:15

Its now been folding at 4.4G at 1.16v core for 24 hours and the cpu temps are 57-62'c and he GPU also folding is 53'c so that plus 5'c on the GPU and a worst case single core CPU drop of 5 degrees but my hottest core at 62'c is about where the coolest of the four cores was under the Storm block.
Room temp somewhere between 26-30'c.
Was it worth upgrading hell yes!