Think my cooler has failed

[ancientmariner]

Aftenoon chaps,

Have had my new rig since november..bought from ocuk and apart from a few issues with the asus board, system has been running well. Stable oc at 4.8 and 2 580's in sli.

So last night i boots up and was surfing for about 30 mins when the system started to stutter and lag badly, was fairly unresponsive and i was about to shut down when it shut itself down. I popped the case door and gave it a look over and could see nothing unusal. Waited a few more mins and rebooted..bios display showed a cpu overheat error so i shut off straight away. I have this cooler

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-OP

I noticed the pipes were warm/hot as was the socket that sits on the cpu.
I eft the system for a cpl of hours and restarted..both fans on the radiator are spinning although at full tilt and i get into windows, idle temps were at 85 on each core (i7 2700k 3.5 @4.8) So i shut down altogether at that stage.

So i think it might be a pump failure on the cpu cooler??

 

[kmax86]

Check if there are small vibrations on the pump when you turn on the computer if not then id say its the pump

 

[ancientmariner]

Thanks for the reply, tried that and felt nothing on the pump so it most likely is the cause. AM just back from buying a H80 so am going to get that on and hope thats it sorted. If so, will return the cooler to ocuk and hopefully get a credit.

 

[iBSOD]

Maybe the cable for the pump fell out? Or go in BIOS and for the connector where the pump connected have it running at 100%

 

[ancientmariner]

Cheers for the replies, it had simply failed. The pump went..i bought a new h80 and things are back to normal. Shame as the oc cooler performed as well, just didnt hold up well in the reliability stakes.